Example sentences of "it [was/were] [num] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was an ambitious objective , but it was 1971 and Robert McNamara had been President of the World Bank for three years , long enough to begin to realize his goal of a leap forward in Bank lending that would take it from $1.1 billion in 1967 to $11.4 billion in 1980 , his last year in office . |
| 2 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |
| 3 | I thought we had three to win , but it was two because Mr Lu got his birdie . |
| 4 | At the break it was 28–3 and Tim Horan ( Australia ) joined Guscott in mid-field . |
| 5 | It was 10.35 and Brenda Pridmore , at the reception desk at the rear of the main hall of Hoggatt 's Laboratory , watched wide-eyed while Inspector Blakelock drew to-yards him the first labelled bag of exhibits from the clunch pit murder . |