Example sentences of "just before the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sihanouk had fled to Beijing just before the 1979 Vietnamese invasion , having been in Phnom Penh since 1975 but without real power as an effective prisoner in the hands of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 2 | ‘ No , he died just before the six came up . |
| 3 | Only after the event was over did we discover that he had in fact contributed to a booklet produced just before the 1987 general election by the Society of Conservative Lawyers . |
| 4 | A grim Panorama programme on BBC television on May 17th highlighted the problems of Britain 's increasingly insecure workforce : milkmen working longer hours for the same money , CD stackers sacked just before the two years after which their jobs would be legally protected , betting-shop workers thrown out if they refuse to work evenings . |
| 5 | I received a special mark of confidence from him , just before the 1964 election , when he was anxious to retrieve some papers from his home in Hampstead Garden Suburb . |
| 6 | ‘ Saturday : Just before the five o'clock matinée a note arrives marked ‘ Urgent ’ . |
| 7 | Ironic that , because Seve won an event and Sandy came second in it , just before the 1985 Open . |
| 8 | The blacksmith 's forge at Hailing Bottom was in use until just before the 1914 war , the blacksmith was then Eblin Brown who emigrated to Canada . |
| 9 | We played an exhibition match with Jack Nicklaus just before the 1967 Open and , as we say in Scotland , ‘ golfed the heed off him ’ . |