Example sentences of "couple of [noun] before [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I just ask a couple of questions before we finalize before lunch . |
| 2 | After all , we have a good couple of hours before we have to go back . ’ |
| 3 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 4 | Clare and Southall a couple of years before she died , age 20 . |
| 5 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 6 | Barry had also composed the music for The Knack , and raised the idea for Billy with producer Peter Witt over lunch a couple of years before it materialized . |
| 7 | Erm I , I suppose it 'll be a couple of years before he does that but |
| 8 | Ooh now that started before we took out the mortgage , about a couple of years before I think . |
| 9 | Surely some time should be given next week so that we can debate this issue , especially when , today , in answer to Question 4 , the Minister of State , Home Office told the hon. Member for Liverpool , Mossley Hill ( Mr. Alton ) that it would be a couple of months before we had the report from the law courts in Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 11 | It was a couple of months before he felt in Daisy 's way . |
| 12 | Can I just say , just a couple of points before you go erm you are all fairly good at writing long answer essay questions , but you are probably not so good at writing short answer questions , right . |
| 13 | It takes at least a couple of seconds before I recognize the last straw . |
| 14 | He 'd done a couple of circuits before they stopped . |
| 15 | Start running down the food in your freezer and fridge , so that they can be switched off and cleaned a couple of days before you move . |
| 16 | Sykes went to Paris a couple of days before you did , and came back on the Monday . |
| 17 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 18 | By dialling 150 a couple of weeks before you move , you can arrange for the phone in your new home to be connected . |