Example sentences of "years before [pers pn] actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may , however , underestimate the volume of marital breakdown in the earlier years of marriage , for several studies have shown that couples may split up , on average , five years before they actually divorce . |
| 2 | It saved two years repayments at the end of the mortgage , because endowments matured here , saving those last two years , purely because we started paying in two years before we actually took the mortgage out . |
| 3 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 4 | It was to be seven long years before I actually clapped eyes on a cuckoo in the wild — on a school camping holiday to the Scilly Isles , of all places — but that was in another life and another land , far from my roots in Colchester Park and Colchester Zoo . |
| 5 | It was some years before I actually tried to ride it , and that was all because of the kindness of Martin from Sunderland . |