Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [was/were] at [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 2 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 3 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘ |