Example sentences of "[was/were] now [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |
| 2 | They were now into the next lecture period , the last before lunch , and the campus had quietened down again . |
| 3 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 4 | She knew by the temperature that it was now about the sixth hour . |
| 5 | I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes . |