Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1979 there were 1.5 million elephants living in Africa , now there are only 600,000 . |
| 2 | and it were fifty five pound . |
| 3 | Reader 's Digest , article on road traffic accidents , never starts , ‘ Last year there were fifty thousand road traffic accidents in the British Isles ’ , because Reader 's Digest readers do n't want to read that . |
| 4 | see what I can find , I 've got these out of Budgen 's cos they were fifty nine P . |
| 5 | With winter just a month away , fuel stocks at power stations were 4.5 million tonnes below target , and the metallurgical sector was ‘ critical ’ , said Mr Voronin . |
| 6 | Only four million homes were owner-occupied 40 years ago compared with 15 million today . |
| 7 | I mean originally where we came from you know they er , the snows and er and the cold weather we were eleven hundred feet above sea level |
| 8 | Well we , as I say we were eleven hundred feet above sea level and er and we were , really moved here because er I could not stand the er , the bad weather |
| 9 | A small number of cycad genera survive in the tropical and subtropical regions today , but they are much less conspicuous today than they were 120 million years ago . |
| 10 | In some parts there were eight hundred persons living — if that is the word — on one acre of ground : one person to every six square yards . |
| 11 | Parts of it were eight hundred years old , the basements were half-filled with fine sand and whatever lived there , lived alone . |
| 12 | Here , in 1781 , there were eight hundred acres of heath and common out of 1,467 acres in the parish as a whole . |
| 13 | In 1989 , there were 347 thousand marriages in England and Wales , and of these 219,000 were first marriages for both husband and wife . |
| 14 | Striders finished overall winners of the four series event by 106 points from Ballymena and Antrim and the ladies of Lisburn were narrow 18 points winners from Lagan Valley . |
| 15 | In 1950 there were 174 000 students at the universities just beginning to emerge from the painful post-war reconstructions . |
| 16 | The danger of inflation was underlined by figures which showed that there were 15,400 million lei more in circulation on May 21 , 1990 , than at the same time in 1989 . |
| 17 | Most of them , according to contemporary accounts , were still using the same crude methods and homely remedies that were popular 100 years before . |
| 18 | By the beginning of the twentieth century there were some 200 levadas with a total length of 1,000km . |
| 19 | It was unbelievable , there were some 200 vehicles from all over the UK fitted with top hi-fi systems . |
| 20 | Last year there were some 200 cholera deaths in Zambia . |
| 21 | We were some 4-500 yards from the villa , not in the garden as has been repeatedly suggested . |
| 22 | There were some 40,000 US military personnel in the Philippines , including 16,000 troops at Clark Air Base , the largest US air base abroad ; the US Seventh Fleet was based at Subic Bay Naval Station ; and there were four smaller US installations . |
| 23 | The front doors were some eight feet above the court surface so each pair of dwellings had a flight of steep brick steps leading to them . |
| 24 | Surrounding the farm area were some eight acres of yards and corrals , suitable for sheep and cattle . |
| 25 | At Steeple Claydon , on the other hand , where nine land assessments compare with only three actual freeholders , there were some fifty inhabitants all told , of whom only four drew income from land.l Either custom or convention hereabouts militated against subletting , or officials in the Buckingham hundreds ignored land that was not freehold , for far fewer owners were recorded there than in the remainder of the county . |
| 26 | In 1989 , the Minister of Education , Elisa Valle de Martinez , acknowledged that there were some 6,000 teachers out of work . |
| 27 | By November 1918 , there were some 18 commissions or sections . |
| 28 | There were some 130 airlines in existence prior to the experiment , whereas today 90 per cent of the traffic is concentrated onto only ten carriers — more than of which are bankrupt and continuing to operate only under the protection of Chapter 11 . |
| 29 | At the time there were some 900 subscribers to the College ( a number seldom subsequently exceeded ) and 14 pupils . |
| 30 | There were some 5,000 people on the demonstration , members of the BPR on the whole . |