Example sentences of "[det] [num] [noun pl] before i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is that a promise , Chris , or will I have to wait another six months before I bump into you — literally ? ’ |
| 2 | It took me an hour to zig-zag down that pesky Alp , and it will be at least another 17 years before I go up a mountain for anything other than rösti or a yodel . |
| 3 | The grammar schools once provided the necessary culture of learning , as well as specific instruction , for students from under privileged homes , as we see in Judith Grossman 's Her Own Terms , or Anthony Burgess 's autobiographical recollection of reading English at Manchester University in the late thirties ( some twenty years before I started teaching there myself ) . |
| 4 | I have another two weeks before I have to get back and … ’ wistfully ‘ … |
| 5 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
| 6 | Talking of which , I 'd better look into these two queries before I do anything else . ’ |