Example sentences of "few [adj] [noun pl] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drank a few refreshing mouthfuls before a slender blonde with high-heeled shoes and bright-blue eyelids swayed down the room towards them . |
| 2 | The Dane did not look too happy when substituted 10 minutes from time , and Newcastle faded after his departure , surviving a few uncomfortable moments before the end . |
| 3 | He then appeared in a few Austrian films before fleeing from the Nazis in the late 1930s . |
| 4 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 5 | Ratners does most of its business in the few short weeks before Christmas . |
| 6 | The spread of the habit from a few scattered locations before 1930 to a great many in 1947 was well documented ( Fisher & Hinde , 1949 ; Hinde & Fisher , 1951 ) . |
| 7 | There he practised as a coal and mineral surveyor , particularly for the Duchy of Cornwall , during the few difficult years before his death . |
| 8 | If you know someone who has just passed a very difficult music exam , for instance , you could celebrate their victory by decorating some of their exam piece with a few pressed flowers before framing it and giving it . |