Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] before [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments before sundown I extricated Wavebreaker 's folding bicycle from the big locker on the boat 's after swim-platform , forced the rusting hinges open , then pedalled along Midshipman Road to the glittering block of apartments where our esteemed boss lived . |
| 2 | Allow to dry for a few hours before painting with gold food colouring . |
| 3 | We were awoken early in the night , a few hours before dawn , by sharp screams , shouted orders , and the sound of running feet . |
| 4 | Shiona 's plane touched down at Glasgow airport just a few minutes before midday the following day . |
| 5 | With full-back Ian Hunter not appearing Cumbria were in doubt about their line-up until a few minutes before kick-off , but showed no signs of uncertainty when the action began , winning a penalty from their first attack . |
| 6 | Sandison could not be sure how much Maidstone had had to drink that day — it was still a few minutes before noon — but he knew that he was sober enough to understand fully what was going on . |
| 7 | Additionally , in this particular case there is another problem — since the shot is being taken a few minutes before sunset , the light is weak , and demands a long exposure . |
| 8 | Additionally , in this particular case there is another problem — since the shot is being taken a few minutes before sunset , the light is weak , and demands a long exposure . |
| 9 | The enumerator must deliver a schedule to the head of each household ( including caravans , tents , etc. ) in his or her district a few days before census day . |
| 10 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 11 | It is also good practice to ask your client to let you have the balance required ( if applicable ) a few days before completion , because you will need to clear the client 's cheque before you use the relevant monies represented by it . |
| 12 | The case is being heard just a few days before counter action aimed at holding up attempts to sell the house if they are forced to leave . |
| 13 | He left just a few days before Christmas in 1984 . |
| 14 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 15 | A few days before Christmas , Eastman Kodak dumped Interactive Systems Corporation , the half that was left after SunSoft bought its piece a year ago , into the lap of the Ottawa-based integrator SHL Systemhouse Inc for an undisclosed amount of money . |
| 16 | A floundering DEC , now with six consecutive losing quarters blotting its once-sterling record , divided itself into nine strategic business units , as promised by its new president , a few days before Christmas . |
| 17 | A few days before Christmas 1286 , Edward I of England was in his duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 18 | A few days before Christmas her husband will discover her adultery in a manner I will subsequently reveal to you , and in a fit of jealous rage he will push some sharp , thin instrument , a pen , perhaps , or a knitting needle , or a personalised automatic cocktail stirrer purchased from Global Inventions Inc. by mail order , up her left nostril , not to kill or maim , but merely to inflict some pain as a small , desperate expression of his own ; pushing too far , however , he will accidentally pierce the brain . |
| 19 | Helen leaves for Chile at the end of September 1994 to help local projects in the country including an orphanage and other community projects and will not return to Britain until a few days before Christmas . |
| 20 | David started as a Tuner just a few days before Christmas in 1949 . |
| 21 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |
| 22 | Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom . |
| 23 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 24 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |