Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred years were to pass before the next Roman invasion and this time they came to stay . |
| 2 | Fortunately , the practical operational problems were addressed in the next important report to be published . |
| 3 | The Scottish Conservatives in general had also attracted criticism for their refusal to discuss devolution , giving rise to fears that a constitutional crisis might overtake the country if the Conservatives were defeated in the next general election . |
| 4 | Can the hon. Gentleman tell us what percentage of collieries have been closed under the present Government , and what percentage were closed under the last Labour Government ? |
| 5 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 6 | Changes to Cuba 's 1976 Constitution were approved by the 11th ordinary meeting of the National Assembly of Popular Power on July 11-12 . |
| 7 | A survey by Director magazine shows that 337 bosses were prosecuted in the last financial year . |
| 8 | As control families were traced through their general practitioner with the facilities offered by the central register , families who emigrated before the study began ( five ) and those whose current family health services authority was not recorded ( five ) or incorrectly recorded ( 11 ) were replaced by the next eligible control in the series . |
| 9 | Those assigned to surgery were scheduled for the next available or convenient operating list . |
| 10 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 11 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |
| 12 | The Russians were opposed by the Fourth Austro-Hungarian Army ( Archduke Joseph Ferdinand ) just south of the Pripet Marshes with , on its right , the First Army ( von Brlog ) . |
| 13 | Failure to control inflation meant that pensioners ' incomes from savings were cut under the last Labour Government . |
| 14 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 15 | The dangers of hepatitis B infection were discussed at the First International Congress on Occupational Health for Healthcare Workers , which was held in Freiburg , Germany in September.The Congress was organised by the International Commission on Occupational Health ( ICOH ) and the Freiburg Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine ( FFAS ) . |
| 16 | They were encouraged by the first major decentralization of employment . |
| 17 | Four separate military task forces were deployed in the first major military deployment of the Bush presidency , with the Pentagon keen to show that if the traditional threat in central Europe was declining , it was ready to project US power elsewhere in the globe . |
| 18 | With corporal punishment abolished as a judicially imposed sentence , and capital punishment diverted , at least for a time , to a committee room in Whitehall , the decks were cleared for the first real post-war scrutiny of penal policy and methods . |
| 19 | Our minutes were lost in the last Great War . |
| 20 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |