Example sentences of "were [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy and my brother Ian and I were amongst the few passengers on board capable of doing proper justice to the excellent dinner provided . |
| 2 | In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level . |
| 3 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
| 4 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 5 | They had blue-chip credit standing , and were among the few counterparties with plenty of fixed-rate interest payments to swap for floating-rate ones . |