Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for the twenty-five pounds . |
| 2 | I was listening to the two in the back working their way through a typical RAF ditty with the repetitive chorus of , ‘ There 's only one bar — BOO ! |
| 3 | I was born on the twenty eighth of December nineteen ten . |
| 4 | I was born in the seventies she might be in this one . |
| 5 | This helps to structure the content of its programmes as well as its public image , and until the mid-1980s , Radio I was aiming at the 16–25 age group . |
| 6 | Oh I was reading about the twenty three stone ! |
| 7 | I was running in the 100 and 200 metres with some very imposing names : Don Quarrie , who was the Olympic 200 metres champion from Montreal three years earlier ; Allan Wells , the British number one ; James Gilkes from Guyana , a world-class runner ; and the big , imposing figure of Haseley Crawford , the Montreal 100 metres gold medallist . |
| 8 | No I think I was restricted to the one brainwave this week . |
| 9 | wondering what I was doing on the twenty seventh . |
| 10 | WATCHING the collapse of the opinion polls ' projections of a hung Parliament early last Friday morning , I was reminded of the 1970 General Election . |
| 11 | Possibly due to my lack of marquetry expertise I was drawn towards the three veneer section , and E.J. Higgs ‘ Light Music ’ ( left ) won third prize in the class . |
| 12 | Erm we had gone down to , to , to Bognor to the christening of her , our nephew and she was n't too , th that was in November , it was sort of middle of November , and something was going wrong there and so when I , when I was retiring on the twenty seventh of November she could n't come in and er |
| 13 | Time and time again the reviewers in Early music have attacked ideas and suppositions of a kind that characterize much modern culture but which were strengthened in the 1960s : that one should be allowed to do what one wishes without the interference of authority ; that every kind of self-expression is equally valid because it is self-expression , and so on . |
| 14 | the record of some of the institutional innovations which pluralists have suggested and which were created in the 1970s , do not appear to have been as successful in reducing military expenditure as pluralists have assumed they would . |
| 15 | The leading case on the requirement of reasonableness arose , not under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , but under the earlier provisions of the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 which were replaced by the 1977 Act . |
| 16 | Wren designed fifty new churches , most of which were constructed during the 1670s . |
| 17 | However , centres will be able to continue to offer any programmes which were developed from the 1992 |
| 18 | The earliest comprehensive statistics , which were compiled in the 1860s , indicated that about seven or eight per cent of the population were accused of some criminal offence each year . |
| 19 | The news categories used by the 1947 Press Commission , which were followed for the 1975 analysis , were too general to show up many differences of detail , but are recorded in Table 6.6 . |
| 20 | The original calculations which are outlined in er N Y six are based on assumptions which were available at the time which were based on the eighty one census essentially , those calculations form the basis of the consultation plan and the deposit plan . |
| 21 | At the national level , women 's political participation was confined to the ladies auxiliaries of the Conservative and Liberal parties , which were formed during the 1880s and 1890s as a means of making use of women 's formidable political energies and of siphoning off potential protest |
| 22 | The US decision will be welcomed by environmentalists concerned about the safety risks posed by several US nuclear bomb making plants , which were built in the 1950s . |
| 23 | This is not just because the terms Whig and Tory were not to become current usage until the Exclusion Crisis , but because the political polarities which were emerging in the 1660s and 1670s — between Court and Country — did not predict the Whig–Tory split that was to emerge after the Popish Plot . |
| 24 | There is little trace left of York 's truly ancient coaching , posting and market inns , while nearly half the pubs which were standing in the 1950s , including some historic gems , have been closed down , converted , or redeveloped into oblivion . |
| 25 | This shift of emphasis , the seeds of which were sown in the 1960s and 1970s , would root teachers much more firmly in the communities they serve . |
| 26 | Only three cantons ( Zürich , Basel City and Graubünden ) voted in favour of the reforms , which were backed by the four government parties , the trade unions , and the bankers ' associations . |
| 27 | The squalor of rural housing conditions became a mid-century scandal , highlighted by the government Blue Books on living conditions and public health which were published during the 1850s and 1860s . |
| 28 | Two schools for the deaf which were opened in the 1900s were both from the start to establish a pure oralist tradition . |
| 29 | The clauses , which were introduced under the 1974-79 Labour Government , were no doubt designed to reassure people that the dangers would be minimised , as the spent nuclear fuel would be returned to the country of origin . |
| 30 | For large numbers come into the criminal justice system unnecessarily , erm that is likely to set back the progress which was made during the nineteen eighties and er increase and reinforce criminality . |