Example sentences of "only [art] [det] [noun pl] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 2 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 3 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 4 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 5 | It was a matter of only a few minutes before the rebels reached the President 's quarters , and stopped to await General Bobo , who had made clear his intention to take over personally . |
| 6 | As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics . |
| 7 | It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell . |
| 8 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 9 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 10 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 11 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 12 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 13 | It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out . |
| 14 | He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road . |
| 15 | The touch of cynicism struck a slightly sour note , but it lasted only a few seconds before the teasing tone was back . |
| 16 | As it happens , in the early days of computers it was thought that it would be only a few years before computers would be able to understand natural language . |
| 17 | Only a few years before alcohol prohibition was repealed in the United States in 1933 , public sentiment was similarly dominated by the opinions of the country 's prohibitionist leaders . |
| 18 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 19 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 20 | Heinrich and Martha walked through this world , which was fated to last only a few years before the spell was broken , like a prince and princess . |
| 21 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 22 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 23 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 24 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 25 | IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams . |
| 26 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 27 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 28 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 29 | IT WAS with great shock that we heard the sad news that had died in hospital on Friday , May 21 , only a few weeks before he was due to retire . |
| 30 | The Mackenzies had invited the Keiths and their children , two-year-old Billy , and Roberta Keith , born only a few months before and named after Robert in Sydney , to join them for the festive season . |