Example sentences of "before many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony and I embarked on a consideration of Child Benefit but before many minutes had gone by a note was sent in informing us that Peter Carrington had resigned . |
| 2 | Before many weeks had passed we were to lose them both … ’ |
| 3 | He must have been a remarkable man , because when his aircraft was shot down he lost his right hand but before many months had passed he was back on his squadron with a hook on his right arm , and although I am not one hundred percent sure of my facts here , I believe he went back on operations as a navigator or air gunner . |
| 4 | Before many more weeks had passed , his demobilisation came through and he was able to shake the dust of the RAF off his boots forever . |
| 5 | The thought that both had finished before many of us reached 15 miles was not a cheering one . |
| 6 | The facades of 106 houses were rapidly built , but it was another twenty years or more before many of the interiors were begun and Kemp Town stayed for some time rather like a giant film set with the image of grandeur propped up by heavy wooden beams . |
| 7 | Paul enjoyed the talk at the Professor 's house , the give and take of ideas ; presently he began to sketch out some of these at the lodging , and before many weeks had passed had a book on his hands . |
| 8 | But he had resolved , when he first took up his great task , that , if God spared his life , before many years he would cause the boy that drove the plough to know more of the Scripture than the ignorant parish clergy of his time . |
| 9 | A plausible explanation is that a poloidal magnetic field draws cosmic-ray protons out of the plane before many have interacted with molecular gas , which is confined to a very thin layer ( 40pc thick ) . |
| 10 | " Guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit " , writes Paul to Timothy , " and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also . " |
| 11 | As before many recognised the importance of the document in initiating debate on the curriculum . |
| 12 | However , it was given its name before many of today 's really aggressive species were introduced to the hobby , and it is not that violent a fish ! |
| 13 | " Go on bringing in your Chinamen " , declared Havelock Wilson , " and before many months are over , by heavens I prophesy that 1914 will eclipse the great upheaval of 1911 . |
| 14 | 1-2-3 release 3.4 for DOS makes nothing easier than it would have been under Windows , but even the Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows version needs a major overhaul before many folk will take it seriously . |
| 15 | Wilson 's major misfortune was that the firm of Veitch declined rapidly before 1914 , when the stock was sold off before many of his new plants had been propagated or distributed : the Arnold Arboretum had fewer difficulties with his later collections . |
| 16 | Although this book was published before many of the systems texts , and therefore is largely non-quantitative , it was refreshing in that it was a brief treatment , which began with the energy budget of the atmosphere and proceeded to include all aspects of the environmental system including the sea in the geosystem , a topic frequently ignored by physical geographers in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | ‘ I can still remember the feeling of intense shock , but also a feeling of superiority that we had heard the news before many other people , ’ says E. Walker , who was teaching infants at a primary school in North Yorkshire when Music and Movement was interrupted to bring the news . |
| 18 | Merseyside Police should enforce the law and , on a second offence , confiscate the bike before many more elderly people suffer injury . |