Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 2 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 3 | It was out of the 1909 Budget proposals that the crisis originally arose and it was already , at that time , well established that financial affairs were the peculiar province of the House of Commons . |
| 4 | But it surpised him to learn just how revolutionary it was back in the 1940's . |
| 5 | It 's all a far cry from June 1987 when Margaret Thatcher was returned to power with a handsome majority of 101 seats , although it was down on the 1983 win . |
| 6 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |