Example sentences of "[was/were] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The representatives of a printing company told dealers of one firm that their shares were a five year hold . |
| 2 | Two of our most challenging contracts during the year were a five year contract won by Lincoln Turbine Service to maintain National Power 's fleet of gas turbine driven alternators throughout England and Wales and a contract for Turbine Engine Services to provide a power pack generating station in Malaysia . |
| 3 | It were a five at the other end Derek ! |
| 4 | After the signing of the Treaty of Limerick in October 1691 the risk of an invasion via Ireland was slight , but unrest continued in Scotland , with whose problems William III had no sympathy ; he is said to have remarked that he wished it were a thousand miles away . |
| 5 | There were a thousand possible combinations … one-four-six , one-four-seven … in twenty minutes I could perhaps try a hundred and fifty numbers . |
| 6 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 7 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 8 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 9 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 10 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 11 | She knew it did n't make any sense , not after she had spent most of the day wishing she were a thousand miles away from Julius , but she suddenly felt rather desperately in need of human company — even Julius 's . |
| 12 | Erm oh there were a thousand and one things I I ca n't really erm you know they they were always they were at it hammer and tongs you know they had er s what would be called something similar to a steam hammer and you know . |
| 13 | ‘ If there were a thousand Departments of Defence in Canada or elsewhere , instead of one , these would still not compete for citizens , because citizens are not their customers ; politicians are ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe 1982 , p. 91 ) . |
| 14 | There were a thousand men out , Charlie ! |
| 15 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 16 | We eventually made good our escape to Braemar , where we sat miserably in the pub , lamenting the fact that our dry clothes were a 200 mile bus and train journey away in Aviemore . |
| 17 | Conservative seats at risk to Labour : Bristol East : Jonathan Sayeed 's 4,123 majority would disappear if there were a 4.1 per cent swing to challenger Jean Corston , a barrister . |
| 18 | I served my time in both India , Palestine , Gibraltar , Egypt and these sort of places abroad and when I , I nine months of my colour service to finish , which were a twelve year service , when war broke out in nineteen thirty nine . |
| 19 | I was at the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , as an assistant manager , and there were a hundred and twenty-two on the staff . |
| 20 | They were all having a packet of chips and fish — whoever fetched them I do n't know , cos they were all up for a good age : tell you , she were a hundred just in St Patrick 's Day . |
| 21 | A couple of dozen invaders at first ; but soon there were a hundred , swarming through the undergrowth , hiding where they could , firing muskets and yelling to one another with wild huzzas . |
| 22 | We are still asking more or less the same questions we were a hundred years ago . |
| 23 | They were a hundred thousand kilometres out from Schiaparelli . |
| 24 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 25 | There were a hundred questions still to be asked and answered , but at this speed and in this noise speech was impossible . |
| 26 | He had a vision of sound in which the voice was only a small part — there were a hundred other prima donnas out there in the orchestra . |
| 27 | There were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness , wildly mingled out of their places , upside down , burrowing in the earth , aspiring in the air , mouldering in the water , and unintelligible as any dream . |
| 28 | Silver and the rest were a hundred metres behind , and I heard him shouting , ‘ Jim , Jim ! ’ |
| 29 | I mean , you marched round the playground until you could knew that twelve fourteens were a hundred and sixty eight . |
| 30 | There were a hundred things that he knew he ought to say . |