Sentence examples for a good while before... from inspiring English sources

To achieve a golden outside, it's imperative to let the seasoned meat stand at room temperature for a good while before cooking, so it hits the oven sizzling, instead of steaming to gray first.

But the chief astronaut, D. K. Slayton, who was grounded some years ago because of a heart anomaly, started smoking his a good while before that, confident of success.

A béarnaise sauce to go with a steak arrives with a skin on top, a clear sign it was made and plated a good while before I had thought of eating it.

A sketchbook is a place where I can discuss ideas with myself, a place I work through and refine an idea for a good while before I will let it run around the studio, and then the world.

If Angelmaker perhaps starts a bit slowly, and you have to agree to be cheerfully confused by the plot for a good while before it starts making sense, then those are small concerns.

.and stayed…and stayed…until, as the months and years passed, it became obvious to even the most optimistic observer that the compound's development was (at the very least) extremely complicated, and (more likely) had actually quietly ceased a good while before, albeit with no change in its public status.

Barry Cryer Abergavenny Still Alive is the somewhat self-deprecating title of Barry Cryer's latest show, and hopefully it'll be a good while yet before he shuffles off to the great green room in the sky.

Allow to steep a good while in a covered bowl before serving.

MacLeod is the son of Murdoch's eldest daughter, Prudence, and Alasdair Macleod, who worked at Wapping for a good while as manager of the Times before taking an executive role in Australia.

That's one reason why I still have some questions about the plan to air seven episodes this year and seven episodes next year; this is a show that likes to marinate a good long while before turning up the heat.

Whatever the reason, it will probably be a good long while before midnight strikes.