Example sentences of "[noun] it [was/were] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the break it was 28–3 and Tim Horan ( Australia ) joined Guscott in mid-field . |
| 2 | According to Rock Hardy it was 3.35 . |
| 3 | Whereas on average 2.4 per cent of households were victimized by burglary , in the high-risk areas it was 6.3 per cent ( Hough and Mayhew , 1985 , Table M ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In January it was 20,285 ( 5.9pc ) and this month it was up to 20,992 ( 6.1pc ) . |
| 6 | As an ecumenical exercise the weekend was a failure ; as a marathon of movement and music for Medau enthusiasts it was one of the most enjoyable occasions ever , thanks chiefly to Margaret 's own tremendous flow of energy , her inspired teaching and her musical inventiveness . |
| 7 | Erm , gone in that museum it was eight ninety five to go |
| 8 | Saturday afternoon , I ought to have been at home it was three o'clock and I should have been at er , in Leicester then . |
| 9 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 10 | For the visiting teacher it was one of access . |
| 11 | Among women , the median increases for the lowest decile of manual workers was 97 per cent and for the highest non-manual decile it was 143 per cent . |
| 12 | Erm just to go over the payments for the car park which has come up actually under community industries and the plants , the total being now for plants it was four hundred and forty four pounds er |
| 13 | For men in the 16-19 age group it was just 1.9 per cent , while for the 60-64 age group it was 10.2 per cent . |
| 14 | In the low grade/mixed grade group the mean age was 58 ( 13 ) years ( range 24 to 75 ) and in the high grade group it was 58 ( 15 ) years ( range 23 to 79 ) . |
| 15 | I ca n't remember whether in grade it was three you did was n't it ? |
| 16 | ‘ When we drew 0–0 at Highbury on Boxing Day it was one of our worst displays of the season . |
| 17 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 18 | You hand one day it was twenty nine were n't it ? |
| 19 | When they served her with a stallion you see , it was three weeks elapsed then before she if you did n't go and foal with that service it was three weeks elapsed afore you game again . |
| 20 | whereas for the United Kingdom it was 2.3 per cent . |
| 21 | and in the United Kingdom it was 6.8 per cent . |
| 22 | In the event it was 1928 before they finally left the course on loan to a Mr. Parsons so long as he looked after them . |
| 23 | in Liverpool it was twenty seven weeks |
| 24 | The overall mean for the 1984–5 sample was 54 per cent and for the 1985–6 sample it was 53 per cent . |
| 25 | Now I know it 's a funny thing but this time because of demand it was forty eight , now alright out of that forty eight three was still , right one was in hospital so you can |
| 26 | In some ways it was one of the most satisfying climbs I 've done . |
| 27 | It 's basically offering people erm rather than becoming members they can become a supporter for five pounds a year of the Green Party for which they get three shortened up beat newsletters and this week it was two sides of A four . |
| 28 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 29 | She had n't got free until nearly seven and by the time she had negotiated the traffic and turned towards her flat it was eight o'clock . |
| 30 | And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry . |