Example sentences of "it [was/were] [num] [noun] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I started first it was five pounds a year . |
| 2 | last I knew it was five pence a year . |
| 3 | So if you think about the massive exodus from the south in the nineteen sixties and seventies erm I ca n't remember the precise figures but in the , at that time er sort of the equivalent of current social security cheque er in er if in , if in New York it was about five hundred dollars a month in Mississippi it was fifty dollars a month . |
| 4 | ( Walkie Talkie ) : Over five hundred metres it was 56.9 miles an hour ; a record . |
| 5 | Oh eleven shillings I think it was eleven shillings a week . |
| 6 | They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can |
| 7 | That 'll be two pounds , two pounds eighty if it was ten pence a pound |
| 8 | No it was twenty pounds a month less . |
| 9 | so , what did she say it was twenty pound an hour ? |
| 10 | But if you erm went to an ordinary general case it was three pounds a week you got sal er for your er salary . |
| 11 | lived in that house there and it was three shillings a week , I think it was , two up and two down . |
| 12 | It was seven days a week . |