Example sentences of "it [was/were] a [num] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because when you were on night duty , which you , you did , er i it was a twelve hour stint right through from eight at night till eight in the morning . |
| 2 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 3 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 4 | And it was a five year apprenticeship was it ? |
| 5 | It was a one man show |
| 6 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 7 | It was a one horse race at the County Ground … |
| 8 | It was a one witness case with lots of contradictions I 'm very happy with the outcome which is sooner than we expected . |
| 9 | As they came into the straight … headed up the Cheltenham hill it was a two horse race … |
| 10 | At the front of this race it was a two horse race between Italian Guiseppe Fiorello and Frenchman Bernard Cazade . |
| 11 | At the front of this race it was a two horse race between Italian Guiseppe Fiorello and Frenchman Bernard Cazade . |
| 12 | No , no just went in ordinary civilian wear , girls sometimes had some overalls because they were handling the ticket boxes , they were metal , they got wet , they rusted up and that was a filthy job for there was really , in those days it was a two box system , a man drew his box which contained a certain amount of tickets of different variable classes and erm , it was listed on a waybill , he was given a half an hour to check his box and join his bus at town centre . |
| 13 | ‘ The first time the buzzer went I thought it was the ice but it was a 16 lb pike . |
| 14 | I had already acquired the address from the ‘ yellow pages ’ and estimated that it was a ten mile drive , thus I gave myself half an hour to account for delays . |
| 15 | So it was a ten pound bet ? |
| 16 | Whether they 've got down to thirty eight , I do n't know but it was a forty hour week when I finally left . |
| 17 | And it was a three co , it was a three course Sunday lunch . |
| 18 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 19 | It was a three year appointment . |
| 20 | As you can see it was a three way tie between ‘ Judas ’ Jordan , Pisshead , and he of the stylish shirtcollar . |
| 21 | I 've got a , a photograph somewhere where we had this trestle table er on the platform and if you were the tea and of course the men had to stay o overtime , they did n't get paid for it and we , we it was a seven day week for us , we were never paid for Sunday . |
| 22 | ‘ All the money that has been raised , whether it was a 50 pence piece , a child 's pocket money or a substantially larger donation , has all gone together to make this enormous total , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It was a 1930 BSA XG 1718 . |
| 24 | It was a three-eight Webley revolver , which Mallachy derided as an infamously inefficient piece , issued for God knows how long to British Army officers , and policemen , and other types who knew no better than to accept it as their side-arm . |
| 25 | Yes it was an eight hour day . |