Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average amount retained was £139.18 , which , on average , was 2 per cent . |
| 2 | The average amount retained was £1,080.24 , which , on average , was 7.73 per cent . |
| 3 | For the subsidy of 1534 , thirty-nine noble families were assessed : their average income was said to be £921 , fifteen of them were assessed at over £1,000 and the highest income noted was £2,266 . |
| 4 | In Treseder-Griffin v Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd [ 1956 ] 2 QB 127 the rent reserved was £1,900 " either in gold sterling or Bank of England notes to the equivalent value in gold sterling " . |
| 5 | The only dish that we did not like was fish cooked a la Galego , which seemed to mean boiled and then doused with spicy olive oil . |
| 6 | Oh yeah , we 've got the analysis we 've got the questionnaires Okay what we 're gon na look at now is we gon na look at the work of Honey and Munnford and what Honey and Munnford spent a lot of time researching was people 's learning sides and they spent a lot of research and what they found out is that there are four different learning sides and we all learn in different ways . |
| 7 | The largest amount paid was £10,000 . |
| 8 | Whether the consideration or the price that he paid was 1s. 6d. only or 1s. 6d. and three wrappers is a matter not for him but for your Lordships to determine … … . |
| 9 | You spent £2.06 on batteries , and £1.71 on nine 19p stamps , so the TOTAL PAID was £3.77 . |
| 10 | During 1838 and 1839 the latter took the entire amount of 4,719 tons 4 cwt. 6 stones dry weight with a value of £35,302 : 11s. : 4d. ; Royalty paid was £2,712 : 12s. : 8d. , being one-twelfth , but after the deduction of certain expenses related to the selling . |
| 11 | The last dividend paid was 8p and the required return on shares in this risk class is 17 per cent . |
| 12 | The largest grant ever offered was £1.1 million for the Gilcomston Church in Aberdeen — to cover the cost of dismantling and rebuilding the spire . |
| 13 | Again unfortunately the only thing lacking was people , but perhaps in Monday we picked a bad night to sample the crack as locals tell me the place livens up as the weekend approaches . |
| 14 | The largest fine imposed was £15,000 , relating to a major sewage pollution incident in the NRA 's North West region . |
| 15 | The amount raised was £1,228.13 |
| 16 | The total money raised was £101.70 . |
| 17 | The final total raised was £1718 — a magnificent effort . |
| 18 | Overall sales were down 55% on last year when profits from autioneering were $139 million . |
| 19 | The biggest loss I recorded was 11oz in a 9lb 5oz bream which had been in a keepnet for nine hours . |
| 20 | Price of the lamp when it was first introduced was £3 for the lamp and £5 for the gear . |
| 21 | JOHN GRIFFITHS , trolley retrieval , East Filton : ‘ On holiday in New Zealand I ate a fish I thought was cod but it was slightly different . |
| 22 | The value of the damage caused was £1,200 . |
| 23 | The value of the damage caused was £1,200 . |
| 24 | The fee offered was $500. plus all expenses . |
| 25 | Morgan paid $480m ( in bonds , not cash ) for Carnegie Steel , a price Andrew Carnegie later felt was $100m too low . |
| 26 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 27 | In the fourth quarter of 1991 the amount of new consumer credit advanced was £11.82bn compared with £12.07bn in the third quarter — a fall of 2 peer cent . |
| 28 | His annual income when he died was £496 , which may seem a fortune compared with the £20 earned annually by a farm labourer but was modest compared with that of most country gentlemen . |
| 29 | The fair value of the assets acquired was £1. 8m . |
| 30 | All it took was 4ft 9in of pure dynamite . |