Example sentences of "were use [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a million gasifier units , usually powering road vehicles , were used during the Second World War . |
| 2 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 3 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 4 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 5 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 6 | You are right to note that two of your photos were used in the last magazine . |