Example sentences of "[was/were] on [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his case the losers were on four legs . |
| 2 | Apart from their own House and the alms-houses in Nether Oldfield , their arms were on three pubs , their monuments in two churches , the one surviving primary school was on their land . |
| 3 | Well I thought he was on eight days then . |
| 4 | At the time she was on six months ' leave from WWF International 's Swiss office , where she heads the conservation news service and edits WWF News . |
| 5 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 6 | Whilst I was behind Desmond he was on two engines and landed heavily ; one of his engines came adrift and preceded him along the flarepath . |
| 7 | Have you heard of the man who was on two diets ? |
| 8 | The playground was on two levels , the top one quite small and asphalted — for use only by Standard Seven . |
| 9 | The inside of the building was on two levels , constructed so that the upper portion formed a kind of balcony above the lower . |
| 10 | The rink was on two levels and had an Alpine atmosphere to it with pine trees and the snowflake effects . |
| 11 | I thought he was on two days . |
| 12 | Well I thought he was on two days . |
| 13 | Thought he was on two days four times . |
| 14 | I was on 1,000 grams of that a day , now I 'm on 187 , so although I 'm still on medication it 's a very minute amount of medication to what I was on before , and I 'm existing on that , so for me it 's worked . |
| 15 | Before the op I was on 1,000 milligrams of the Dopramine drug a day , which is what the brain is lacking , which is substitute the drug for , which is . |
| 16 | Joe , given only three months to live when his lymphoma was diagnosed , was on 30 pills a day . |
| 17 | At one time he was on 25 committees , over and above those within the University , and was chairman of many of these . |
| 18 | The sermon was on 2 Corinthians 5:17 which is a wonderful verse and exactly right for a New year . |