Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [verb] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 2 | But most lying in greatcoats on the rock-hard ground , trying to snatch a few hours sleep before reveille . |
| 3 | Just time for a few hours sleep before the early morning call in the biggest beds you have ever seen . |
| 4 | Mostly it is successful in its aim , for the juvenile liaison police estimate that very few youngsters reappear before them . |
| 5 | We chose 55–60 for screening by flexible sigmoidoscopy because few cancers occur before age 55 and the prevalence of distal bowel adenomas plateaus towards the end of the sixth decade , suggesting that most adenomas destined to develop in this region will have done so by this age . |
| 6 | Rain water is ideal , tap water needs to be left a few days to mature before stocking . |
| 7 | Very few pupils left before completing a full five-year course , and 40 per cent of the total pupil population of all the schools were in the sixth form . |
| 8 | Porting a 1.24 million-line C code CAE application to different machines and operating systems , including rewriting the graphics drivers , seems to have taken only about two to three man-months per port for development , and a few man-months to test before shipping . |