Example sentences of "of [noun pl] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here . |
| 2 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 3 | Barry had also composed the music for The Knack , and raised the idea for Billy with producer Peter Witt over lunch a couple of years before it materialized . |
| 4 | Alvarez was fully aware of the ‘ bad news ’ part of the equation-the muon 's brief life which only allowed it to catalyse a handful of fusions before it perished . |
| 5 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 6 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |