Example sentences of "it was six [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And I think it was six vouchers for for a free |
2 | He said it was six feet six inches long , and he took it to Bramble Wildlife Park near Canterbury for examination . |
3 | It was six minutes before Didcot attacked the visitors goal as Mark O'Hara shot into a crowded goalmouth . |
4 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
5 | It was six hours before party chiefs denied the report , adding to the impression that Mr Mellor was being undermined by his colleagues . |
6 | It was six hours since they had shared their meagre ration of black rice , boiled as usual in a rusting can on the communal fire inside the barrack hut . |
7 | Over the next seven years Cadillac built up a reputation as a quality car maker and , in 1906 , released the four-cylinder Model L. At $5000 , it was six times the price of the single-cylinder runabout and as well made as any car in the world . |
8 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
9 | It was six pounds odd was n't it last time ? |
10 | Motorway police chief Inspector David Haikings said : ‘ It was six degrees Centigrade below and drivers were driving too fast and too near to each other . |
11 | It was six sheets of foolscap , thumb-typed . |
12 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
13 | It was six weeks to the day since the Saturday of Arabella 's last dinner party . |
14 | It was six weeks since Busacher had seen her , and she 'd certainly fined down , not a lot , but enough to make a difference . |
15 | I heard it was six weeks . |
16 | Three hundred again I think it was it was six balls were n't it ? |
17 | So far London had taken Peter over thirteen years , and all he had to show for it was six box files bulging with notes , newspaper cuttings and botched openings . |
18 | And the women went oh eh unlucky that was seven numbers , Shaney said to her it were n't that was six numbers , and they got and that and got the computer print out and all that , and then it was six numbers . |
19 | When Adeane left , Charles had definite ideas about the sort of man he wanted to replace him , but it was six months before the right man could be found . |
20 | It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned . |
21 | The cover charge for the bar , which is owned by the Europejski Hotel across the street , is forty thousand zlotys , a little more than two pounds , double what it was six months ago . |
22 | The non-strikers , at the other extreme , comprising the two fields ( Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire-South Derbyshire-Warwickshire ) which had less than 15 per cent on strike in the early weeks of the dispute , and less than 5 per cent when it was six months old . |
23 | Incredibly , though , it was six months before I fully realised what was happening . |
24 | got I mean if Even if you had a date to aim towards , even if it was six months hence , at least that would help you , you could |
25 | that 's it yeah , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm vaguely recalling it now because it was six months ago since I saw Mick 's but er , yeah that sounds about right |
26 | Now Channel 4 has gone and the sport is back where it was six years ago . |
27 | It was six years ago she was approached and offered a job as casting director for a planned new soap opera … |
28 | Although the animal was slow to mature ( some claimed that it would keep growing until it was six years old ) the new society was able to show that properly managed steers could reach market weights before they were two years old . |
29 | It was six years since she 'd crossed the bridge from where they 'd stood , and the river that flowed between was a torrent . |
30 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |