Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 2 | The children who were below the third centile for height at diagnosis ( SDS for height <-1.8 ) are of particular concern . |
| 3 | Once she 'd received her recall from Lord C , she was aboard the next trans-Atlantic seaplane from New York to Lisbon . |
| 4 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 6 | We were in the 1st Div … it was the first game of the new season , and we were playing the newly promoted Swansea away . |
| 7 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 8 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 9 | Can the Prime Minister really take any comfort from the fact that , bad as today 's figures are , they are slightly less bad than they were in the last Tory slump ? |
| 10 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 11 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 12 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 13 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , at 3.7 per cent. , the rate of inflation is half the lowest level that it was under the last Labour Government ? |
| 15 | It was over the next few years that he started to produce his finest work . |
| 16 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 17 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |
| 18 | When the king had died peacefully in bed in 1968 he had been left exactly as he was for the first six months to make sure he was n't simply astral-travelling . |
| 19 | While still living with his family in London in 1871 he was amongst the first associate members of the newly formed Society of Telegraph Engineers ( later the Institution of Electrical Engineers ) . |
| 20 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |