Example sentences of "it was [num] or [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 2 | It was five or six storeys high , employed three hundred men , and was driven by the water-power of the river Derwent . |
| 3 | ‘ See you later , ’ he 'd say , and often it was five or six hours later . |
| 4 | Bolivia is no longer the tremendously cheap country it was five or six years ago , and anything organised expressly for foreign travellers costs almost what it would in Europe . |
| 5 | It was five or ten minutes before they and the studio audience could control themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ It was two or three minutes before he collapsed . |
| 7 | It was n't er , it was n't a very long one was it , it was two or three months was it ? |
| 8 | This general theme is perhaps even more relevant now to the field of special educational needs than it was two or three years ago when the initial decision about the conference topic was made . |
| 9 | Coun Ken Walker ( Lib Dem ) said : ‘ The state of the river is better than it was two or three years ago but I would like to see more resources spent on the worst sections ; in the town centre . |
| 10 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 11 | Similarly , David Hackett Fischer maintains that growing old ‘ is an experience profoundly different today from what it was two or three centuries ago ’ , although the only explanation he can offer is one grounded in modernization theory . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought it was six or seven inches over the line , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I was very much his son and it was six or seven weeks before I learned that the self-confidence he 'd given me , genetically and by example , to other people was mere boasting . |
| 14 | Although the standard of management has been variable , it is much better than it was 10 or 15 years ago as a result of fiercer competition and a great deal of fall-out . |
| 15 | Medved is guilty of some distinctly muddled thinking on pop , which is less political than it was 20 or 30 years ago when Alice Cooper sang about school being blown to pieces . |
| 16 | Which is not as nasty as it was ten or fifteen years ago , but it 's still a lot of money if you come into this bracket . |
| 17 | It was ten or twelve feet higher than the square , surrounded by a stone wall with a granite coping and surmounted by a chain-wire fence to stop the children scrambling up and falling over . |
| 18 | The rough is only about six inches high , but in 1961 it was three or four feet of thick , willowy scrub . |
| 19 | In France it was three or four times as expensive for French farmers to send merchandise by road as by rail . |
| 20 | I won him about I do n't know it was three or four games . |
| 21 | Because quite a l a number of members of the council had businesses and you did n't shut at six o'clock , it was seven or eight 'clock before they closed . |