Example sentences of "[adj] time before " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 2 | Can you tell me why , on returning to normal drive after 4WD , I experience severe jumping in the steering action for a brief time before everything returns to normal . |
| 3 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 4 | Rocky introduced them as Carl Wood , Jubal Cantrell and Austen Parker , but Jim Miller would have recognised the latter two as Jube and Red , the pair who had baited him and given him such a hard time before Rocky 's intervention had rescued him . |
| 5 | The mini-skirt spread through the western world from many centres ; it appeared in Oxford Street , London , long before it reached Oxford Street , Swansea , and presumably it was seen in Chicago , Illinois , an appreciable time before it dazzled the male eyes of the " city " of Muddy in the south of the same state . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left . |
| 7 | Some latitude can be allowed to serious critics who write for periodicals which go to press a long time before a show is on view ; these critics will not be able to comment on how the exhibition actually looks , as their articles will have been written before the show 's installation . |
| 8 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
| 9 | But it will be a long time before that system is fully installed . |
| 10 | It 'll be a long time before you 'd eat any of those flowers . ’ |
| 11 | We called the police and ambulance but it was a long time before the police arrived . |
| 12 | He had keen eyes and quick hands , so it was a long time before he got caught . |
| 13 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 14 | It was a long time before his sobs subsided , and by then other , less ugly sounds were coming from the room downstairs . |
| 15 | It was a long time before they subsided sufficiently for him to relax his muscles and lie still in the rough familiar comfort of tangled blankets . |
| 16 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |
| 17 | It 'll be a long time before the word ‘ mother ’ becomes as dirty a word as he suggested it would . |
| 18 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 19 | Several workers suggested that there must be a tissue phase , in which the Plasmodium went to ground , but it was a long time before objects , evidently forms of the parasite , were recognized in microscopic sections of the spleen and liver of infected domestic fowl , monkeys and finally man . |
| 20 | As you wander along the ridge , it 's a long time before you lose sight of its neat white contours , and if you take a strong pair of binoculars on your walk , you can keep an eye on how the housemaid is turning your bed down . |
| 21 | Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken . |
| 22 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 23 | It was a long time before she saw anything that would explain the curious horse call ; then she saw a notice-board standing up , gaunt and solitary , ahead of her , and she hurried towards it . |
| 24 | It was to be a long time before any disciples appeared to revitalize the game , and even after Busby , Shankly , Clough and others the cry still goes up ( not always reasonably ) that football is too negative . |
| 25 | Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership . |
| 26 | American manufacturers share this scepticism , ‘ It will be a long time before there 's any international graphics standard , ’ says Dave Robertson , head of the US company Computervision 's British operation . |
| 27 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 28 | It will be a very long time before the actual causes of war are entirely removed , if ever , but a truly human religion would change the historic misuse of long established religions , and serve as a counter to war , not provide justification for it . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God . |
| 30 | This seems to indicate that the rock was of sacred significance a long time before Augustine visited . |