Example sentences of "[num] were [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Hybridisations resulting in the autoradiographs of Figures 1 and 5 were carried out in 3 saline sodium phosphate ( SSPE ) , 10% dextran sulphate , 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulphate ( SDS ) , Denhardt 's and 100 µg/ml sonicated salmon sperm DNA at 65°C overnight . |
2 | Nine were set up in 1970 alone , and this rate was maintained through the decade of the 1970s , rising to fourteen in 1973 and dropping to seven in 1977 . |
3 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
4 | However their numbers have been halved over the years , as depot space has contracted : four were broken up in 1963 and the remainder numbered 600–607 . |
5 | Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines . |