Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other set , belonging to Danaher , had little to smile about , even though he at least was able to , because a few hours before the kick-off he was finally ruled out of contention because of the knee ligament strain which had reduced his contribution over the eight-match tour to a couple of half-matches . |
| 2 | Indeed , MTB 74 , with her torpedo tubes on the foredeck instead of amidships , was ready for sea only a few hours before the raid , her crew having changed one of her five engines . |
| 3 | If possible , introduce the female a few hours before the male , so she can explore and settle in in peace and quiet . |
| 4 | We 've been told to take off times , but if there 's one certainty , they 'll be rescheduled by a few hours before the season starts . |
| 5 | The city centre was cordoned off after fires were discovered in two stores a few hours before the Prime Minister , John Major , was to address a farmers conference 400 yards away . |
| 6 | Just a few hours before the verdict he told Central News that he believed the jury would find him not guilty . |
| 7 | Lithuania , fifth in the group with seven points from 11 games , are due to arrive in Dublin tomorrow lunchtime , a few hours before the FIFA deadline . |
| 8 | Sometimes it is helpful to give an ice cold drink a few minutes before a meal to relive the difficulty of chewing or swallowing . |
| 9 | Doors normally open half an hour before a concert or performance of a play but , when there are two evening performances , spectators may be admitted only a few minutes before the second performance . |
| 10 | A few minutes before the start of the service , the girl s from three of the Godolphin Boarding Houses would arrive under the eagle eyes of several mistresses , who always seemed to wear stern expressions . |
| 11 | But Yorkshire 's lead by then was 53 with the final 20 overs approaching and Craig White and Darren Gough carefully batted on until rain came a few minutes before the close . |
| 12 | Martin Gilfellan had taken the car just a few minutes before the accident and was being followed by the police when he drove straight over a junction . |
| 13 | Imagine yourself making a few notes before the meeting . |
| 14 | A few yards before the winning post she found yet more courage and stamina and forced herself in front to win by a length . |
| 15 | A few yards before the rue de Fleuve joined the tow-path along the Seine , it was traversed by the Cours Mirabeau , a wide boulevard lined with pollarded lime trees where the daily market was held . |
| 16 | I generally ask to have a few kicks before a big game , ’ Fox said . |
| 17 | A few days before a new election was due to take place , at the beginning of March , a mysterious fire destroyed the Reichstag and the Communists were blamed for that outrage . |
| 18 | Eventually , we reached the stage where she could avoid it altogether a few days before a period , but she continued to drink one or two small cups a day at other times . |
| 19 | ( It was only a matter of a few days before a faster one appeared . ) |
| 20 | This should be resisted by the tenant as not only will the term be slightly diminished ( by almost three months where , for instance , the certificate date is a few days before a quarter day ) which could be relevant for a comparatively short term lease , but also the first and subsequent rent review dates will be that much sooner , which at a rent of , say , £100,000 per year , increasing to £140,000 per year ( in an inflationary market ) on the first rent review , would add £10,000 per quarter to the rent . |
| 21 | These comments , coming from the NRA 's senior scientist a few days before the Government 's Green Bill is due to be published , add more problems to the rough passage already faced by the legislation . |
| 22 | I saw him in hospital a few days before the end . |
| 23 | Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting . |
| 24 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 25 | A few days before the vote on partition in the UN General Assembly , Abdallah secretly met Jewish Agency officials . |
| 26 | This is why I joined the International Women 's Peace Delegation to Baghdad , a few days before the twenty eight nation attack on Iraq . |
| 27 | Nutty received the guff about the competition a few days before the date . |
| 28 | The evacuation of children , and the mothers of children under five , from London and other large cities began a few days before the outbreak of war . |
| 29 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 30 | A few days before the outbreak of war , instructions had been received to prepare and assemble the ambulance trains . |