Example sentences of "was [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thirty-seven kilometres to the depot . |
| 2 | He was thirty-seven years old . |
| 3 | He was thirty-seven years old with tousled collar length auburn hair and a youthfully handsome face marred by the cynicism in his penetrating pale-blue eyes . |
| 4 | In the control patients pyloric loss was 16.8 ml h - 1 before smoking and was unchanged afterwards ; an apparent rise in the duodenal ulcer patients from 30 ml h - 1 to 37.5 ml h - 1 ( 25% ) was not significant ( Table I ) . |
| 5 | A gluten free diet was started and over the next two months there was 2.3 kg weight gain and symptomatic improvement . |
| 6 | He was told that , including Law Lords and Lords Justices but excluding standing bodies such as the Law Commission , the total was 79 judges . |
| 7 | From Trenton to the USAF base at Upper Heyford outside the city of Oxford was 3,063 miles . |
| 8 | It was 2,700 miles . |
| 9 | It has been estimated that the cratering rate today ( see section 8.1 ) is about 3 times what it was 850 Ma ago , and Figure 6.9 is brought up to today on this basis . |
| 10 | The maximum value found was 850 g/t U within a 15 m intersection . |
| 11 | It was 2,880 yards in length and 9 feet 3 inches wide . |
| 12 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 13 | These figures may be compared with those for India ; in 1881 male life-expectancy at birth was 23.6 years there , and in 1931 this figure had risen to 26.9 . |
| 14 | I remember there was seventy-five girls to seven men at the time . |
| 15 | I was seventy-five years old , you daft bugger , d' you seriously think it was your fault , just because you got your leg over some Judy ? |
| 16 | ‘ William , he was seventy-five years old , it does happen , you know , and he had terrible eating habits . |
| 17 | He was seventy-five years old . |
| 18 | The limited scope of the moderate provisions of this first law should be emphasised : up to 402 hectares of ordinary farming land were allowed ; for cattle farming the maximum was 1,340 hectares . |
| 19 | The average payment was 518 p.a. , ( 1,402 for leaders , 572 for opposition leaders and 501 for committee chairmen ) . |
| 20 | His total dose was 109 millirems — well below the recommended level set by the International Commission on Radiological Protection . |
| 21 | Severiano Ballesteros was best placed , though even he was eight strokes behind the tournament leader , Chip Beck . |
| 22 | Laura 's Beau , one of four Irish-trained runners , battled on to take third place , 15 lengths away , while Peter Scudamore 's mount Docklands Express , the 15–2 favourite , was eight lengths farther back in fourth . |
| 23 | They had their they measured it and it was eight foot high and he jumps up , spins around and crash |
| 24 | It was eight hours of solid drinking which lost me my charity , my film company , my reputation and my dignity . |
| 25 | There was eight girls , all pregnant , all locked up in one big dormitory , smoking . |
| 26 | ‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims . |
| 27 | It was eight year old . |
| 28 | When his dinner arrived from the trattoria — he had told her long ago he preferred their food to hers which suited her perfectly well — it was eight minutes late . |
| 29 | The time was eight minutes past eleven on the final day of the fifth Test and my phone hardly stopped ringing yesterday with calls from people eager to say how the incident supports Allan Lamb . |
| 30 | It was eight feet and two inches long and the sword measured two feet and five inches . |