The earliest of these canons was probably framed only a few years before the middle of the third century.
Clement of Rome, writing a few years before the time of the martyrdom of Ignatius, uses the words bishop and presbyter interchangeably.
Mercier's picture of the spy system in Paris a few years before the Revolution is, to judge from other contemporary accounts, in no way exaggerated.
It is only just to add that it was formally abolished a few years before the Revolution, and not afterwards, as is generally supposed.
Sir Matthew Hale tells us that, on one occasion, at the Suffolk assizes, no less than thirteen Gipsies were executed, under the old Gipsy statutes, a few years before the Restoration.
In England, the last instances of condemnation, under the old sanguinary laws, happened a few years before the Restoration, although these were not repealed till 23d Geo.
A few years before the restoration of Charles II, thirteen Gipsies were executed "at one Suffolk assize.
A few years before the Revolution, this shameful distinction was abolished by Louis XVI.
In distant times, the landed proprietor had the right of life and death over his subjects, and a few years before the Revolution, every market in Paris had its pillory, and even its gallows.
The bankrupts' cross and the pillory disappeared a few years before the Revolution, in 1786; though it is to the Revolution itself that the credit of the abolition is generally given.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "few years before the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
