Example sentences of "year before [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they last twenty years before being replaced they have done a good service . |
| 2 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 3 | The peppers are pulped , then left to mature for three years before being distilled with vinegar . |
| 4 | Middle-aged women working in the West German government have also been a favourite target for East German spies and several have passed over supposedly valuable information for a number of years before being caught . |
| 5 | As much as 85% of the materials should be on open access , and stock relegated to store should remain there for a trial period of five years before being returned to the main library , or transferred to a permanent back-up collection such as the British Library . |
| 6 | It was considered that the larger Devon found in Somerset formed a link to the big , powerful ploughing oxen of Sussex which , even in the mid-nineteenth century , were regarded also as valuable beef makers , worked only for three or four years before being turned over to the fatteners . |
| 7 | G-AVIL is a 1965 Alon A-2 version flown in the USA for two years before being imported into the UK in 1967 by the Ulster Flying Club at Newtownards . |
| 8 | This is illustrated by the case of a girl who experienced a tremendous shock some three to four years before being seen at the homoeopathic out-patient clinic . |
| 9 | Now the town has a permanent shrine to the Norseman , in the shape of CF–DRD , which served the community faithfully for 20 years before being mothballed in 1984 . |
| 10 | Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 . |
| 11 | She remained in generic social work for nearly ten years before being headhunted into NISW 's management development department . |
| 12 | Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 . |
| 13 | He had been educated in England and after graduating from Oxford had returned to Kenya where he served with the Intelligence Corps for ten years before being recruited to UNACO as one of its first field operatives . |
| 14 | Usually potential counsellors will need to be in recovery for at least two years before being considered for a training post . |
| 15 | His body , bound in chains , was left on the gibbet for over two years before being removed by John Stewart , younger of Ballachulish , the one member of the Appin gentry who actively promoted the legal defence of his kinsman . |
| 16 | SIR , — Dr Jha and colleagues ( May 1 , p 1116 ) report antibodies against human papillomavirus ( HPV ) 16 E7 peptide ( originally reported by Mueller et al ) among women who had been diagnosed with cervical carcinoma on average 4 years before being contacted for donation of a serum sample . |
| 17 | The first generation Renault 5 was in production for 13 years before being replaced by the second generation Renault 5 ‘ SuperCinq ’ in 1985 . |
| 18 | The new partner should , it hardly needs to be said , be given an opportunity of studying the full agreement together with the firm 's accounts for , say , the last three years before being invited to sign any instrument of accession or adherence . |
| 19 | He 'd been in the country 2 years before being arrested and had gone to Goa to spend Christmas with friends . |
| 20 | ‘ They would not have to wait until they had worked for two years before being eligible for unemployment and sickness benefit or parental leave . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 22 | The bottles are designed to be reused up to 20 times over a period of five years before being recycled into filling for toys , anoraks and duvets . |
| 23 | It is usual for a pupil to play in each orchestra for at least two years before being promoted . |
| 24 | D'Annuzio led a group of men to occupy Fiume for the Italians , lording over the city for almost a year before being ousted by the wartime Allies . |
| 25 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |