Example sentences of "hours before [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But captain Graham Gooch waited almost 60 hours before phoning with the bad news at 9.30 yesterday morning . |
| 2 | THIS is being written , nervously , a mere six hours before embarking on a search for ghosts and spectres round the cemeteries of Sunderland . |
| 3 | It is advisable to stop chloral 24 hours before weaning from the ventilator |
| 4 | Heads down , strenuously and determinedly we fought the southerly swell for a couple of hours before arriving at An t-Aigeach , a wild though sheltered inlet , respite , complete with deer , a heron and a live floating urchin . |
| 5 | The two six man teams board a coach in the early hours of Sunday and can be driven around for hours before arriving at the venue of the referee 's choice . |
| 6 | If they timed it just right they could scavenge for a few hours before going to the Royalty in Ladbroke Grove for the Saturday morning minors . |
| 7 | The agency reported that the group hid in a pine forest for several hours before heading for a town and finding the Chinese restaurant . |
| 8 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |