Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 2 | It was meant to compliment the wisteria , planted four years ago , but Claudia is resigned to the fact it might be still another six years before it puts on a show . |
| 3 | She had to tell me three times before it sunk in . |
| 4 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 5 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
| 6 | He tapped in the code , then waited , knowing the signal was being scrambled through as many as a dozen sub-routes before it got to its destination . |
| 7 | This ascent up the levels of programming languages can go on without any natural limit : a language like LISP , when run , is normally translated through two or three levels before it becomes machine code . |
| 8 | The flower , likened in horticultural circles to a ‘ Queen of the Knight ’ , lasted a mere 18 hours before it wilted . |
| 9 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 10 | It had obviously taken the wrong channel and become wedged on a rising shelf of rock strata which traversed the trough about fifty yards before it reached the lake surrounding the breakwater . |
| 11 | Mercifully the traffic progresses for fifty yards before it stalls again , and the Rasta does not pursue her further , but Robyn keeps a nervous eye on her rear-view mirror . |
| 12 | Back in the 1950s Jim Corbett gave the tiger ten years before it became extinct . |
| 13 | Tony Zemaitis told me in ‘ 76 that it would be ten years before it sounded right . |
| 14 | But how could the kidnappers have known about your arrival in Perugia five hours before it happened ? |
| 15 | If she could have walked it in five minutes , then the cab should have done it in less , but it seemed a long five minutes before it stopped again and the cab driver opened the door , saying , ‘ Here we are then , lass . ’ |
| 16 | To cut a long story short , the church was granted special provision to use the building twelve months before it became generally available ; I was elected to the executive and later became a trustee of the community centre . |
| 17 | It took about nine months before it started getting a grip of us really . |
| 18 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 19 | Mind you when I said it 's got ta come down it might be five years before it comes down , but you 've got ta think of your outlay first . |
| 20 | " We would not allow a farmer to stick something in a cow and chase it three times around five fields before it died " , Gummer said . |
| 21 | The first bird lay pinioned there for four or five seconds before it managed to break free and fly off . |
| 22 | COLBERT : I was sitting next to Bob Mcknight , and five seconds before it happened I said to Bob , the only person who can fuck this up is Tom Carroll . |
| 23 | The water flows out through the plug hole at the rate of 8 litres per minute and the bath holds 500 litres before it overflows . |
| 24 | Er I do n't know if you 've experience of steel but when you feel the handles of a , a lathe first thing in a morning it 's like lifting pieces of ice and er the heating arrangement took about four hours before it built up you know , to a reasonable working degree . |
| 25 | People will have to tell me a million times before it gets through to me . ’ |
| 26 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 27 | Available in varying maturity , it must be kept for two years before it attains a real ‘ bite-back ’ sharpness . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw Mick and Jerry two days before it came out in the papers and they seemed absolutely fine , ’ he says . |
| 29 | We 've heard nothing until two days before it starts . |
| 30 | Or it could be three or four days before it arrives . |