Example sentences of "a long time before " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance . |
| 2 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 3 | But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew . |
| 4 | But it does need to be borne in mind that although this form of sudden death can create such instantaneous reactions there are also people who hide and keep quiet and suffer for a long time before finding the opportunity to talk to someone about their feelings or until another trigger sets them grieving . |
| 5 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 6 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 7 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 8 | The TRW group is working on the same lines-but it will be a long time before GI Joe puts his faith in orders from General Computer . |
| 9 | While this was a good thing , such improvements were at first only superficial , and it was a long time before everyday living conditions in deaf boarding institutions and day classes were of acceptable standard . |
| 10 | You did it a long time before anybody else . |
| 11 | ‘ That last one were a long time before your time , Tom . |
| 12 | She seemed to lie in bed for a long time before falling asleep . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 16 | She had looked at Sylvie for a long time before speaking . |
| 17 | If you plant a crop , it 's quite a long time before it |
| 18 | At the Warwickshire Eyre of 1221 , one Reginald was found not guilty of the rape of Margery daughter of Aelfric ‘ because a long time before this he had her of her own free will , and again two years afterwards in the house of her father , and they say no cry was raised . ’ |
| 19 | And even then it was a long time before the implications of the theory for massive stars were understood . |
| 20 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 21 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 22 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 23 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 24 | Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He waits a long time before seizing her , getting to know her habits and other information about her , but she is really a complete stranger who has never met or loved him , unlike Daisy and Gatsby who at least know each other before the book begins . |