Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not long before the two families were joined with ties other than zeal for their faith and a deep devotion to its outworking . |
| 2 | To their combined relief , it was not long before the two men arrived at the driveway and stepped cautiously out onto its surface . |
| 3 | Yet , while the traditional working class had little prospect of improving their economic and social opportunities , this was not so for the two and a half million or so families whose income varied between £2 and £4 per week . |
| 4 | The total value of cross-border deals in the first three months of this year at $13.3 billion was 45 p.c. up on the corresponding period a year ago but was still well below the 1989 peak when the quarterly average reached $32.6 billion . |
| 5 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |