Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But that particular day she did n't know beforehand , this was planned a few weeks in advance as you can imagine .
2 In April Elsie Streek and Myrtle Mott entertained elderly and disabled people with a day of movement and display organised by Thameside Institute ; this was followed a few days later by an afternoon with the Woolwich Salvation Army Group .
3 This was sold a few days later for £8.58 million !
4 One was seen a few miles off Newhaven on 21 September 1936 ; one flew east off Langney Point on 15 October 1948 ; One flew east off Langney Point on 19 November 1950 .
5 That was followed a few years later by the Meadows situation in Dallas , Texas , where Alger Meadows had bought from two travelling Frenchmen a whole collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works which were all fakes .
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