Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You said you were here for just a week ? ’ |
| 2 | She was outside for just a second . |
| 3 | The operation had apparently been quite straightforward ; Kirsty was home in under a week and back at work after a month , with no obvious after-effects . |
| 4 | It would have clinched the identification as Apollo , which is probably correct : a head was found in the temple of Apollo at Cyrene ; and the long , braided hair bound round the head , though a fashion of gilded youth at the beginning of the century ( the fair-haired boy , fig. 70 ) , was probably by now a sign of divine or heroic status ( cf. fig. 79 ) . |
| 5 | There was also at least a century of crossing with Shorthorn , Hereford , Aberdeen Angus and Red Poll . |
| 6 | He himself was here for only a day or two . |
| 7 | It was there for just a second or two , then it moved away quickly . |
| 8 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 9 | And he was there for quite a while . |
| 10 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 11 | And erm I was there for about a year . |