Example sentences of "it [was/were] [num] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mixed in it were 30 kg of TCDD . |
| 2 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 3 | It was fifteen days before Isambard 's inconspicuous agents in Pool and about the hospitable courtyard of Strata Marcella picked up traces of the Welsh marauders . |
| 4 | It was twelve weeks of torment before the player was informed the charges were to be dropped . |
| 5 | It was 1.57 children per woman in 1989 , well below the 2.1 that is needed to prevent the population from eventually declining . |
| 6 | Then , remembering it was five minutes past tot time , he ran down the ladder to the well deck , and away to the spare-crew mess . |
| 7 | It was eighty-five miles to Orange , a distance we hoped to cover in three days ' marching . |
| 8 | It was 2,880 yards in length and 9 feet 3 inches wide . |
| 9 | It was seventeen years after President Kennedy 's assassination , twelve years since Bobby 's , but the idea was so powerful nobody turned to look at the shattered window or the stunned lad . |
| 10 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
| 11 | It 's basically offering people erm rather than becoming members they can become a supporter for five pounds a year of the Green Party for which they get three shortened up beat newsletters and this week it was two sides of A four . |
| 12 | Over the top , the road curved around to the left and a roadside milestone said it was two miles to Broughton Street . |
| 13 | This time it was two brothers from Ohio returning from a visit to Disney World . |
| 14 | It was two weeks before Christmas . |
| 15 | Eventually , when Radio Clyde said ‘ No recording , no Masses ’ , and the bishops got themselves into a situation when it was one law for Clyde and another for the BBC , did the recorded Mass become a possibility . |
| 16 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 17 | It was one thing to back down before the poles . |
| 18 | It was one thing for Jean-Claude to have had the experiences that made him uniquely suited to interpret Alain-Fournier 's novel ; it was quite another for those experiences to have laid the foundations for a creative , personal life . |
| 19 | It was one thing for Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , pampered beauty , to contemplate the horrors of poverty from the relative comfort of Vetch Street , but to see it in practice , that was quite another thing . |
| 20 | But it was one thing for James I to have his ideas influenced by Scotland 's natural enemy , England . |
| 21 | It was one moment of delight in the general hurly-burly but , with only three minutes left , there was another moment of controversy . |
| 22 | It was six sheets of foolscap , thumb-typed . |
| 23 | well , well Vicky reckoned it was ten hours from Calais |
| 24 | The signpost outside the post office told her that it was ten miles to Abbotsfield and twenty-five to Bristol . |
| 25 | They did n't give me methadone , they just gave me I think it was 30 milligrams of Librium and two sleepers of a night time … . |
| 26 | It was three minutes to Overtures and Beginners . |
| 27 | Christmas came and went , and it was three months since Thornton 's answering-machine ultimatum . |
| 28 | It was three miles to Jane Ashton 's place . |
| 29 | For 347 ( 87% ) this matching was done 3 years after surgery and for the remaining 53 it was 2 years after surgery . |
| 30 | By contrast , it was 10.3 p.c. in May , 1979 . |