Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Was the landing gear up or down , or was one leg out of phase with the other ? |
2 | Above that were two windows which opened every hour and a procession of Apostles appeared in each window . |
3 | Well that were two days ago . |
4 | Scientists at the EPA , who helped analyse samples of sediment from the Farallon Islands say the public has over-reacted to findings of radioactivity there that were 200 times background levels . |
5 | It used to be that Opposition spokesmen quoted figures that were four years out of date , but the hon. Gentleman depends on statistics that go back 10 years . |
6 | Two of these clones exhibited activities of histamine induced cAMP production that were 2–3 times greater than those in the other clones or in the parent HGT-1 line despite the absence of interclonal variability in the affinity of the clones for histamine . |
7 | But by seeking suggestions from front-line staff maintenance and overhaul engineers — the company came up with savings that were three times greater than those targeted . |
8 | Except that is was for money , I know it was for money but er I do n't know the exact er Because I think I think in that year , we got what we called the Samuel award , that were three shillings a day , basic , you see ? |
9 | and it 's still there , that were three years ago , should be a little bit of interest on that |
10 | That were three weeks you see . |
11 | It requires little research to do so , largely because West German specialists and journalists rushed across the frontier and came back gasping out tales of air pollution four times worse than West Germany 's , of mercury levels in the Elbe that were 250 times EC limits , of forests where 40 per cent of the trees are sick . |
12 | His idea was that the parcellization of building land would enable the construction of blocks that were 120–150 metres wide and some 75 metres deep . |
13 | Each of these improvements has allowed scientists to tackle problems that were ten times as large or ten times as difficult . |
14 | By the time that was five months old , I felt that we had achieved a bit of organisation in our lives and that I was in a position to offer ‘ something back ’ to the NCT . |
15 | It had been a big thing , photographers , malai officers , local chieftains , city Danuese of all walks and classes , dogs , trackers ( for sign that was five years old ! ) , cherry berets , and helicopters making self-important passes overhead . |
16 | ‘ You want this stuff for the book ? ’ he said in a voice that was nine parts disbelief to one part disgust . |
17 | In that hour I heard about life on a London newspaper , the great novel that was one day going to be written , the shock to the Francis family when the General 's eldest son refused to go into the Army . |
18 | No doubt that was one reason for the deep-rooted Labour hostility to devolution , and there were other reasons . |
19 | We 've talked about the project safety training that was one thing that came out of it . |
20 | In the pictures that was er that was one thing er I was quite happy with . |
21 | I started off by quickly writing that important journal article that was one week overdue . |
22 | go for the last , before Christmas that was six months . |
23 | England 's chances of winning the Cornhill Test series all but disappeared when Akram became almost unplayable after tea with a ball that was 70 overs old . |
24 | Apart from this book that was thirty pounds , it had two pages in it . |
25 | In 1933 , in New Zealand , one was recorded that was 21 metres long with eyes 40 centimetres across , the largest known eyes in the whole animal kingdom . |
26 | The Guynemers could trace courageous ancestors back to Charlemagne , but few heroes looked less the part than Georges , with his almost effeminate beauty and frail , spindly body that was three times rejected as unfit for military service . |
27 | And after the barbed wire was another fence that was higher and again the floodlights played and caught on the cutting edges … and after the high barbed wire was a wooden fence that was three yards high . |
28 | And the women went oh eh unlucky that was seven numbers , Shaney said to her it were n't that was six numbers , and they got and that and got the computer print out and all that , and then it was six numbers . |
29 | 3 Eddie climbed 38 metres up a tree that was 53 metres high . |
30 | These ‘ raincoats ’ were nine times out of ten the tea boys of the A&R department and were nine times out of ten a complete waste of time . |