Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] time before " in BNC.
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| 1 | The images lingered for only a brief time before changing , the Retreat demolished in the storm of stones and a new structure raised in the whirl : the Tower of the Tabula Rasa . |
| 2 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |
| 3 | However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser ! |
| 4 | Only a short time before his death in a road crash , I did an item with that fine singer Dickie Valentine . |
| 5 | If they were to become a matter of routine , it would be only a short time before the public , understandably , viewed the process with suspicion and mistrust . |
| 6 | If they were to become a matter of routine , it would be only a short time before the public , understandably , viewed the process with suspicion and mistrust . |
| 7 | Secretary , who stayed in office only a short time before handing over to James Muir , who served until 1905 . |
| 8 | Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River . |
| 9 | He stayed there only a short time before moving to Gloucestershire where he has been ever since . |
| 10 | If you plant a crop , it 's quite a long time before it |