Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |
| 2 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 3 | The way it was done , with absolutely no warning , was traumatic for the staff and startling for its subscribers , of whom there were well over a million . |
| 4 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 5 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 6 | Rather it suggests that intercourse was normal once a couple began to " keep company " and considered each other " promised " . |
| 7 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 8 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 9 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 10 | he was alright still a bit stupid , but he was n't as bad as he is in class |