Example sentences of "it [was/were] [num] [noun] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 27 days since Rashid had left his office at Iraqi Airlines for the last time . |
| 2 | It was two summers since Allen had come to the village and taught her to shoot . |
| 3 | It was sixteen years since Wycliffe 's last case in the town and he was recapturing the atmosphere of the place . |
| 4 | It was six minutes before Didcot attacked the visitors goal as Mark O'Hara shot into a crowded goalmouth . |
| 5 | It was six hours before party chiefs denied the report , adding to the impression that Mr Mellor was being undermined by his colleagues . |
| 6 | It was six weeks since Busacher had seen her , and she 'd certainly fined down , not a lot , but enough to make a difference . |
| 7 | It was eight months since Patrick had entered the portals of Royalbion House . |
| 8 | It was ten years since Eliot had been interested in Ecstasy and Dance Hypnosis among the American Indians , and had read in King about the lively ‘ moonlight dances ’ of Bushmen . |
| 9 | It was ten years since Jacklin had won and they 'd adopted Seve . |
| 10 | It was ten years before Uncle Fred really took an interest in me . |
| 11 | A woman posing as a social worker walked off with her and it was 15 days before Alex was found safe at a house in Burford , Oxon . |
| 12 | But it was three days before Lachlan received word that his father would see him . |
| 13 | Now that it was three years since Mama had died , people did . |
| 14 | It was twenty-five minutes after Morse had left the scene that Lewis discovered the first , fat clue : a sheet of yellow A4 paper on which the details of the Historic Cities of England Tour had been originally itemised ; and on which the time of the final item that day had been crossed through boldly in blue Biro , with the entry now reading : |