Example sentences of "a few years before [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contains no explicit stipulation that the muderris should also act as mufti of Manisa — or , alternatively , that the mufti of Manisa should act as muderris — but it would appear that by at least a few years before 944/1537–8 , if not earlier , such had become the practice . " |
| 2 | Should the soil be in need of replenishment all the vines are grubbed up and the land left to fallow for a few years before new vinestock are planted and the entire cycle begins again . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 4 | The Marxists , by contrast , had only been able to build a viable organization , under the name of the British Socialist Party , for a few years before 1914 and were always bedevilled by sectarianism and schism . |
| 5 | ( This was a few years before little actors such as Al Pacino , Richard Dreyfuss or Dudley Moore became big . ) |