Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a long pause before the Mother Superior said , ‘ Yes , if that 's how you wish it , Mrs Winkowski . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 3 | For a long period before the 1970s they were Fordist ; in the 1970s/1980s period of structural change neo-Fordism came to dominate . |
| 4 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |
| 5 | There was a long silence before the Trapper replied . |
| 6 | But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew . |
| 7 | Tissue culture , an ancillary method with a particularly high profile , ‘ was first used for vaccine production in 1949 , a long time before the present demand for alternatives . |
| 8 | Although the RAF had standard instrument panels from 1936 onwards it was a long time before the merits of this tidy arrangement really caught on in the USA . |
| 9 | And even then it was a long time before the implications of the theory for massive stars were understood . |
| 10 | The moving mass of mainly Medau and Navy blue clad figures was a very encouraging sight to the hard working girls of the Kent Committee who had spend a long time before the event and on the day itself making sure all went according to plan . |