Example sentences of "year before the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years before the Uprising a level of Palestinian protest in the territories had been normal , comprising occasional violent attacks on Jews , stone throwing and occasional shutdowns and demonstrations . |
| 2 | At the time of Stalin 's death , some two years before the signing of the Treaty , the USSR 's European clients maintained at Soviet behest over 1.5 million men under arms ( half again as many as today ) , supervised by thousands of Soviet ‘ advisers ’ posted down to regimental level and , particularly in Hungary and Poland , by Soviet Commanders in East European uniform . |
| 3 | In 1975 , the year after the fall of Haile Selassie , and four years before the fall of the Shah , the witness of revolutions turned up in Angola for the abandonment of their colony by the Portuguese : the subject of the third of these books of his . |
| 4 | It dates from about 1390 BC , just a few years before the fall of the Labyrinth on the plain below . |
| 5 | St. John 's was in fact rebuilt ten years before the sack , but it survived remarkably well , and its stained glass existed up until the eighteenth century when Stukeley records its removal . |
| 6 | It is a private restaurant opened a couple of years before the revolution by Christian and Marina Stolzenburg . |
| 7 | Thus , for hundreds of years before the formation of the first Yugoslav state in 1918 , the South Slav peoples were subjected to different forms of political and cultural pressure . |
| 8 | He 'd been corresponding with a local cricket scribe for five years before the trip and had recruited two current Test cricketers in Roy Minnett and Gerry Hazlitt , the dashing Dockers , Cyril and Philip , and an adonis figure in Norman Ebbsworth . |
| 9 | The ring of gas in Supernova 1987A was not created in the explosion but ejected from the progenitor star a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 10 | Later , the star evolved into a blue supergiant , just a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 11 | Dates are expressed in radiocarbon years before the present ( AD 1950 ) , using the half-life of 5,568 years . |
| 12 | The charcoal made it possible to get a carbon-14 date on the deposit , giving an age of about 10 770 years before the present . |
| 13 | It sent her jubilee greeting throughout the empire in a powerful demonstration that the global village was a possibility , some 14 years before the birth of its future prophet Marshall McLuhan . |
| 14 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 15 | The same may be said for Confucianism , which has dominated Chinese philosophical thinking from times BOO years before the birth of Christ . |
| 16 | By 1917 , the year that he first came into contact with Sartre , the very year that Lenin was establishing a new revolutionary Soviet state , three years before the birth of the French communist party , this future activist of the French Left was in the throes of a major personal crisis brought about by the demise of his father . |
| 17 | He has been told he has only months to live , but the case could take two years before the Court of Session in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | Zeta 's administrative separation from Serbia began with the break-up of Tsar Dušan 's empire , some thirty years before the battle of Kosovo . |
| 19 | He used a basic time range , later extended , of nine years , checking bibliographic coverage for 4 years before the base year , and four years afterwards . |
| 20 | The information recorded on the birth certificate refers to one point in time — when the child 's birth was registered — whereas the information reported at interview refers to a period of employment of three months or longer , at any time from three years before the child 's birth up until diagnosis . |
| 21 | About two years before the Government Offices competition , he met Henry H. Hofland , who worked for W. B. Moffatt after the break-up of the latter 's partnership with Scott . |
| 22 | The poem was published several years before the incident . |
| 23 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 24 | America 's productivity growth in the 50 years before the depression averaged about 2% a year . |
| 25 | There was such a thing as ‘ piped ’ entertainment into the home , 27 years before regular radio , 41 years before regular television broadcasts , and some 87 years before the advent of cable television . |
| 26 | After all , this World Cup did not get on the road until two years before the event . |
| 27 | ( v ) The prisoner is then informed of the date for the first review , and that this is three years less than the tariff if the first review is to be held less than 17 years before the date of his sentence . |
| 28 | If he can prove that it has been exercised for 20 years before the date of an action , it will be presumed that it has existed from ’ time immemorial ’ . |
| 29 | With two years before the opening of World Cup ‘ 94 there is an immense amount of work to be done . |
| 30 | But such songs were no novelties even at court entertainments in Florence and we have the melody and bass of a song composed by Piero Strozzi and sung by Giulio Caccini ( 1550–1610 ) in a masque for the wedding of Francesco I two years before the publication of Galilei 's Dialogo , in which Strozzi was supposed to be one of the interlocutors . |