Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the usual practice when mail was given out : a recipient of a letter would normally get 150 , two letters 300 , and the penalties for a parcel were 500 and above depending on its contents . |
| 2 | Now U have to confess that there were two that never went on sale . |
| 3 | He was fifty-five and still filled with plans for a united Spain . |
| 4 | He was seventy and continually engaged in frenetic schemes to bolster up his old age . |
| 5 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 6 | Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car . |
| 7 | John Berger believes it raises more questions than meet the eye Photograph of Pollock in his studio by Hans Namuth The suicide of art Pollock and Lee Krasner : when they first met she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 8 | When she first met Pollock she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 9 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 10 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 11 | Richard was born in 1961 , when Olivier was 54 and already acclaimed as one of the world 's great actors . |