Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of time before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 2 | It was only a matter of time before the ultimate blonde bombshells of designer fashion and pop joined forces . |
| 3 | Jerusalem , the very heart of Christendom , had been captured and it could only be a matter of time before the remaining Christian forces , still holding on at Tyre , Tripoli and Antioch , were overcome or expelled . |
| 4 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 5 | With the merchandising machine grinding into production , 100,000 T-shirts already selling every week , along with video games , mugs and comic books , it 's surely only a matter of time before the simple-minded feline Stimpy and the maniacal chihuahua Ren make their debut on our shores . |
| 6 | IF THE life stories of Billie Holliday , Loretta Lynn and Pasty Cline were interesting enough to inspire major Hollywood movies , it 's surely only a matter of time before the Dinah Washington biopic arrives . |
| 7 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 8 | It would only be a matter of time before the strong-willed de Gaulle would seek to reshape the EEC according to his own conceptions . |
| 9 | Tension was continuous , and it was only a matter of time before the two countries slipped into total war . |
| 10 | This implicit acceptance of the wider consequences of removing the right to abortion — opinion surveys showed consistent majority support for retaining the 1973 precedent — together with the emergence of the three-member centrist bloc on the Court , threw doubt on the widespread assumption that it was only a matter of time before the Court eventually overturned Roe v. Wade . |
| 11 | Already Washington knew that it was only a matter of time before the USSR was in a position to present a serious nuclear threat to the United States itself . |
| 12 | He was district secretary of the ITGWU and had stood on the NILP ticket a number of times before the split of 1949 , when he went over to the Irish Labour Party . |
| 13 | Sometimes it is awkward because with all the excitement you tend to go to the lavatory a number of times before the race , which leads to difficulty later on . |