Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] days before " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter set up his artillery in the Broyle and bombarded the defendants for eight days before resistance collapsed . |
| 2 | This suggests that low prostacyclin production may be a consequence of arterial endothelial cell loss or damage and this requires restoration by normalisation of metabolism for some days before prostacyclin production returns to normal ( Harrison et al , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 4 | We were here for six days before the camels arrived , but were reassured by hearing news of them from some of the many pilgrims who passed through our camp on their way to a famous shrine of Sheikh Husain ; all carried peeled , forked wands as an emblem of their pilgrimage . |
| 5 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 6 | Some eurobonds have a lock-up period of 90 days before they can be sold through the secondary markets to domestic investors . |
| 7 | However , in the case of single company PEPs , you have a limit of 42 days before subscriptions must be invested . |
| 8 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 9 | And then , before that , if you if you was to make the mealy puddings the it that always had to be cut into bits and emptied and washed well in cold water , and with salt and that , and that was They would done that for three days before they were then filled up to make the mealy puddings . |
| 10 | The whole idea of erm a fax is to get the thing there quickly is n't it ? if it 's sort of sitting up on a desk for three days before they bring it down . |
| 11 | I still have the crudely-duplicated tickets for this hop , amusingly priced in those days before sex-discrimination was questioned , ‘ Ladies — 1/6 ’ ; ‘ Gents — 2/6 ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I tell you , if anyone went near the beach in those days before everything became new — if anyone went near the beach at night , the Slave would come from the deep sea and make a light . |
| 13 | The next county was Denbigh , in those days before the ‘ bigger-is-better ’ shuffle took place , and we arrived there just in time to have the door of the first pub shut in our faces with the sort of clank against which pleas and arguments would be obviously unrewarding . |
| 14 | — I would know then , once back in those days before everything changed , that my power is of little weight and not worth using . |
| 15 | She developed a complete mental block against her pregnancy , and concealed it until four days before she went into labour . |
| 16 | Joanne had delayed telling anyone until four days before she went into labour . |
| 17 | There are rooms booked in the hotel if they want to take the opportunity of visiting relatives but I do n't expect them in Dublin until two days before we play . |
| 18 | We 've heard nothing until two days before it starts . |
| 19 | Brian had reported general malaise for five days before he developed paraesthesiae in his right arm and weakness in his legs . |
| 20 | Continued Christy : ‘ A battle raged for five days before the enemy over-ran us , and I was taken prisoner ’ . |
| 21 | Bills of exchange can have terms of up to 180 days before settlement takes place and can therefore be used to bridge a financial gap between the exporter making shipment and the importer taking delivery and selling the goods . |
| 22 | In patients with a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch or with an acute complication caused by gall stones , the gall bladder was electively decompressed by percutaneous cholecystostomy , carried out under local anaesthesia , for seven to 10 days before the stones were removed . |
| 23 | Draining the gall bladder for seven to 10 days before stone extraction allowed the stone to disimpact in over half of the patients making stone extraction easier . |
| 24 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 25 | But she later told her parents the boys had raped her and they were quizzed by police for several days before the girl confessed to lying . |
| 26 | Her daughter , Gemma , had been left money for her school dinners and an elderly neighbour took her in for several days before social workers took her into care last week . |
| 27 | M.Ps have no privilege protecting them against an arrest on criminal charges but they are protected against arrest in connection with a civil matter while parliament is in session and for 40 days before and after . |
| 28 | They then lived rough for four days before they were arrested in Pontefract , West Yorks , it was alleged . |
| 29 | And every year after Christmas , when the sales were about to begin , there 'd be a queue of at least twenty idiots sleeping in the winter cold outside the big stores for two days before they opened , wrapped in blankets and lying in deckchairs . |
| 30 | She played him patiently for two days before she hooked him , and reeled him in . |