Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some comparatively small reductions to the Housing Benefit budget but the major savings — which ran into billions of pounds — were for the 1990s and the next century . |
| 2 | The first " strand " of the discussions , which were between the four constitutional parties in Northern Ireland ( thus excluding Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish Republican Army ) , covered proposals for devolution in Northern Ireland and had not made concrete progress . |
| 3 | Black labradors draped over chairs looked as ‘ buggered ’ as one of the ladies said they were after the four hour walk in the wake of their shooting husbands that morning . |
| 4 | Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village . |
| 5 | A party from the Diocese were amongst the 3,000 present . |
| 6 | His thoughts were with the two figures ahead , so tightly linked beneath the sheltering dome of the umbrella . |
| 7 | A comparison of the 52 estimates of annual lampsilis growth that were with the 247 estimates of measurement error shows that shell shrinkage is much greater than would be expected from measurement errors alone ( n=299 , P<0.0001 ) . |
| 8 | Consequently , LEAs earmarking certain discretionary items in this way would still have to count them in calculating that they were within the 10 per cent limit . |
| 9 | All the relevant facts were before the two magistrates who were weighing them up to decide whether it was more likely than not that there was prejudice and unfairness that led to an abuse of the process . |
| 10 | The Uthwatt Committee noted that there were only three cases in which betterment had actually been paid under the Planning Acts , and all these were before the 1932 Act introduced a provision for the deferment of payment until the increased value had actually been realised either by sale or lease or by change of use . |
| 11 | Most replies were in the hundreds : 123 , 128 , 140 , 89 … |
| 12 | Please send in your name to the office if you were in the 1955 or 1963 Wembley items or ‘ Fascinating Rhythms ’ at the Society 's 25th Anniversary at the Albert Hall . |
| 13 | It were in the 1920s and it was a passenger train from Cleethorpes to Doncaster and the driver , well , he was a hard , fast driver and he was n't popular with firemen . |
| 14 | Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s . |
| 15 | Governments point to just how wrong the environmentalists were in the 1970s when they claimed that the ‘ squandering ’ of resources would impose limits on growth . |
| 16 | In an interview in The Times , he said : ‘ I think if they are not careful , the Press will become a major political issue of the 1990s , as the unions were in the 1970s . |
| 17 | In the 1980s , the personnel departments of many organisations are a lot slimmer than they were in the 1970s . |
| 18 | More than five hundred of the deaths were in the sixty four plus group . |
| 19 | Institutional investors have shown themselves , as in the Airtours-Owners battle to be less welcoming and more sceptical of bids than they were in the '80s . |
| 20 | Sherman believes that , as a result of these changes , police are more likely to talk their way out of a potentially disorderly situation than they were in the 1960s ( ibid.:231 ) . |
| 21 | By 1951 , only 6 per cent of all widows were in the 15–44 age group , compared to nearly 20 per cent in 1871 and 1881 . |
| 22 | Those most in favour of recycling were in the 15-19 and 35-54 age groups , and tended to come from higher income earners in southern England . |
| 23 | Eden in his survey of the nation 's poor described how badly hit the agricultural parishes were in the 1790s . |
| 24 | Indeed the majority of the section numbers are the same as they were in the 1893 Act . |
| 25 | Almost 80 per cent of an estimated 17,000,000 refugees in the world were in the 47 countries classified by the UN as LDCs . |
| 26 | The fastest growth rates during this time were in the three least urban regions of southern England : East Anglia , South-West , and East Midlands ( table 3.6 ) . |
| 27 | At the district scale in South Devon , 531 of the 734 completions of local authority dwellings between 1976 and 1979 were in the three main towns of Kingsbridge , Totnes and Ivybridge and only 51 completions were in parishes outside the seven main settlements ( Phillips and Williams 1982a ) . |
| 28 | She was almost shouting but it was the week before Christmas and we were in the Three Tuns and there were at least six different parties going on , so nobody noticed . |
| 29 | It were in the 1890s . |
| 30 | But that should not stop us from recognising that things are very much better in the '90s than they were in the '70s . |