Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's why it may be a good ten minutes or so before a man can lift a finger ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 2 | Carey checked it , then dragged back on the rod and took up the slack , working that way for five minutes or so before he beached the fish . |
| 3 | And President Gorbachev stood up there for about 15 minutes or so before the television pictures were cut . |
| 4 | Even when there is a will , it will be six months or more before the beneficiaries have what is due to them . |
| 5 | DURING the two months or so before the first shots were fired in the Gulf , the dollar rose . |
| 6 | The U.S. Consul became responsible for our wellbeing but it was fourteen days or more before my parents got word of my survival after being reported missing on 21 May . ’ |
| 7 | We were at Speke only three days or so before we got our orders for embarkation . |
| 8 | To start again from scratch in the USA would mean that it would be five years or more before he had any hope of receiving his doctorate , but in England , with his early research experience behind him , he could complete the degree sooner . |
| 9 | This raised the limits before which tax on wealth transfers were paid , and abolished taxes on gifts made ten years or more before someone died . |
| 10 | Snow associated the occurrence of cholera with the source of the victim 's water supply 20 years or so before bacteria were identified as causing the disease . |
| 11 | Psychoanalysts themselves undergo five sessions of analysis a week for five years or so before they can practise . |
| 12 | In the 1930s , twenty years or so before the hospital bed reductions began , a period of economic standstill and high unemployment drove many single , unemployed , poorly educated young men from , mainly , depressed areas in the north of England , Scotland and Ireland to more prosperous areas in the south in the vain hope of finding work . |
| 13 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 14 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 15 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 16 | It was ten seconds or so before I realized I was supposed to be looking at the inside of the wooden door . |