Example sentences of "a few minutes before [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 2 | Tomorrow , May 21 , at a few minutes before six in the evening it will be precisely half a century since Wellington DV841 came down over the County Durham village of Roddymoor . |
| 3 | A few minutes before that , I heard a door click somewhere nearby . |
| 4 | He had his suede shoes brushed over with a wire brush by the boot-black outside the General Post Office and arrived at Exchange station a few minutes before ten o'clock . |
| 5 | A worrying report , published by three teachers ' unions just a few minutes before national curriculum boss David Pascall issued his ‘ back to basics ’ clarion call , revealed a staggering 80,000 teachers — one in five — want to quit their jobs . |