Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attached to the wall of the castle were forty of the creatures , hanging upside down and gently hissing at each other . |
| 2 | It seemed to his slow , sleep-sodden mind , that there were hundreds of the horrid things and that they were all bearing down on him , a rushing curtain of green and gold and brown , with here and there wild , menacing eyes and reaching , clutching hands that were not hands at all , but nasty , skeletal twigs . |
| 3 | There were hundreds of the old stone huts on the moor . |
| 4 | There were hundreds of the Hunters , darting and soaring through the air . |
| 5 | Louis Chiron ( Fra ) Hermann Lang ( Ger ) and Rudolf Caracciola ( Ger ) were three of the leading drivers of the era but the greatest of all drivers before the second war was Italy 's Tazio Nuvolari . |
| 6 | ( F ) Two vice presidents of the Republic shall be nominated , the first put forward by the S.D.M. and the second by the S.S.D.F. and S.P.F. ’ — The S.D.M. , S.S.D.F. and S.P.F. were three of the groupings — ‘ ( G ) The prime minister shall be a native of the north west of the country . |
| 7 | It was not officially recognised after 1955 , but by 1983 there were 3,000 of the breed , including 400 milk-recorded cows , and a successful conservation programme was under way . |
| 8 | They were 18 of the best and worst years of our lives . |
| 9 | I fought like crazy but there were fifteen of the bastards . |
| 10 | Ranged along the northern horizon beneath azure blue skies were five of the world 's 14 highest peaks : Kanchenjunga , Makalu , Lhotse , Everest and Cho Oyu . |
| 11 | There were five of the creatures . |
| 12 | Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties . |
| 13 | If you were one of the few to risk the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday , you would have been able to find no information about the composers being played . |
| 14 | They were one of the biggest flops in educational history . |
| 15 | Finshing third , provided they were one of the four successful stragglers , would leave England to play the winners of Group D , West Germany 's group , in Milan or Group C , probably Brazil , in Turin . |
| 16 | Here we find the ring of truth because if you were one of the disciples and Jesus had appeared to you , what would you have told your friends ? |
| 17 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 18 | I talked to about 30 or 40 people who knew him pretty well , and they all thought that they were one of the most important people in his life . |
| 19 | They were on Alida 's face and Alida felt a chill and shifted in her chair , as though Miss Cress , in her navy uniform and bib , were one of the old headmistresses . |
| 20 | Like the other European countries visited , farm co-operatives were one of the main strengths of the farmers . |
| 21 | We were one of the first countries to ratify a new Council of Europe convention applying similar rules to all its Member States . |
| 22 | The trilobites were one of the dominant forms of marine life in the Lower Palaeozoic , known from thousands of different species and found in every continent . |
| 23 | Yet the haplochromines were one of the biological wonders of the world : for within that single lake , they had diversified into 300 different species . |
| 24 | The Caskies , including Faith , were one of the five . |
| 25 | Thus the new State finds it necessary to accommodate precisely those processes which were one of the sources of the original movement of national liberation . |
| 26 | Indeed , the Abu Khadras were one of the largest families in Palestine , their orchards and property scattered between Jaffa , Jerusalem and Gaza . |
| 27 | Harold could hardly point out that good curtains and carpets were one of the basic requirements for soft living , and an ample income another , to supply other amenities including first-rate domestic help . |
| 28 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 29 | In the whole sorry saga , West Bromwich Albion were one of the few parties to emerge with dignity . |
| 30 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |