Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The shares were divided among three groups of managers — the 50 most senior , some 250 middle managers and the remaining 700 who were running large contracts , or a group of units .
2 In 1981-82 , 3,800 tonnes were imported , and by 1987-88 we were importing 80,000 tonnes , thereby almost becoming one of the major toxic dustbins of the world .
3 By late 1874 it was producing various types of coloured printing papers , as well as newsprint , on a 54-inch machine .
4 From 1969 it was awarding honorary degrees .
5 The city 's Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität was founded only after Baron von Stein 's reforms in 1810 , yet by 1870 it was setting international standards in history , classics , physics , chemistry , and medicine .
6 By July 1909 he was making successful flights of several miles , and in August was awarded the Aeronautical Society 's silver medal .
7 Sir John Throckmorton , Chief Justice of Chester , was accused by the Privy Council of slackness and greed ; and in 1579 he was fined 1,000 marks in Star Chamber for forging a legal document .
8 I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques .
9 I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques .
10 In 1820 he was granted 190 acres of land on the waterfront in a location which was , at that time , outside Sydney .
11 Alcuin was also critical of the new Northumbrian king , Eardwulf , but when Eardwulf was driven out of his kingdom in 806 he was restored two years later through the intervention of Charlemagne and the pope ( see above , p. 157 ) , a clear enough demonstration of the continued maintenance of Northumbria at this time as a Carolingian sphere of influence .
12 By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work .
13 17032 married white women aged 25–39 years at entry during 1968–74 who were taking oral contraceptives or using an intrauterine device or diaphragm .
14 He took out his first two engine patents in 1886 , and having progressively improved the design to give more complete combustion and avoid pre-ignition , in 1890 he was granted two patents for a hot-bulb oil engine , two years before Rudolf Diesel 's first English patent for his compression-ignition oil engine .
15 After his priestly ordination in 1965 he was given pastoral appointments in the Diocese of Westminster , including seven years with the Catholic Missionary Society which took him all over England and Wales conducting Parish Missions .
16 By the 1980s they were achieving 400-day weights of more than 500kg with bulls , 375kg with steers and 320kg with heifers and the Lincoln Red is now Britain 's largest traditional beef breed with a capacity for rapid live-weight gains and early maturity .
17 In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’
18 Beginning with 8 apprentice girls and three journeymen tutors , by 1863 it was employing 14 women .
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