Example sentences of "[num] before [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 1747 before trouble was again encountered over the question of the collectorship , and at that time the office had been held without dispute for several years by Michael Elphinstone of Quarrel , whose election had been secured by an alliance of the Duke of Montrose and Lord Elphinstone . |
| 2 | They also have no qualms about cannibalism ; my first six specimens rapidly decreased to three before realisation dawned and they were separated . |
| 3 | Apart from the fact that Asiatic birth rates flourish and will continue to flourish , that the population of Russia may double itself to over 320000000 before decline begins , there is evidence of resistance [ to a declining birth rate ] in Germany and Raly . ’ |
| 4 | Pretreatment with TCV-309 before caerulein infusion significantly reduced the increase in pancreatic weight ( Fig 2 ) , protein content ( Fig 3 ) and plasma concentration of amylase ( Fig 4 ) but all these parameters were significantly ( p<0.05 ) raised above the controls obtained from rats infused with saline . |
| 5 | Excavations have shown that the extensive legionary fortress near Inchtuthil , north of Perth , had to be evacuated as early as AD 87 before construction had been completed . |
| 6 | Mexico 's first woman director , she made three features from 1948 — 1951 before production conditions forced her to turn to making shorts . |
| 7 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |
| 8 | Therefore , it would take an offer of £2 million before City would consider a sale . |
| 9 | It would help dispel unhappy memories for Whiteside who made the last of his 38 Northern Ireland appearances in a 3–0 Dublin defeat in 1989 before injury cruelly ended his career at just 26 . |
| 10 | Sometimes , it may be wise to arrange for the mortgage advance to come a day or two before completion is scheduled . |
| 11 | The only difficulty with arranging for the mortgage advance to come a day or two early is that interest will be charged to the client-borrower a day or two before completion is actually scheduled . |
| 12 | Now , independent taxation means that th that you 've both got an allowance of fourteen thousand two hundred before age allowance is abated , but for teachers who 're you know retired early , er some years ago , and they perhaps got a pension for themselves , a pension for their wife , then obviously when they got to sixty five , quite ou because it was calculated as a , as er one total , it actually abated their allowance quickly . |
| 13 | Ted captained the Palace through the first half of our 3rd Division championship season of 1920–21 before injury prevented him playing , and then in our opening games in Division Two . |
| 14 | In the 1860s before Haussmannization had taken effect , class barriers were strong enough so that the ‘ public idiom ’ still was not satisfactorily standardized . |
| 15 | The home team , well filled with credited Wallabies , led 24–4 before Sole roused the Scots to fight back to a 24-all draw . |