Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1937 Pett 's Wood alone was issuing 320,000 tickets a year . |
| 2 | The major task tonight was congratulating three dogs which had outshone all others during the year in areas of saving lives , devotion to duty and pet of the year . |
| 3 | Frying Tonight was written 20 years ago by Gerald Priestland , known better as a BBC foreign correspondent , and draws extensively on trade Press columnists like ‘ Anchovy Sauce , ’ ‘ Dorsal Fin ’ and the wonderfully named Molly Codling . |
| 4 | But that was terribly expensive , terribly expensive , I mean in eighteen ninety-nine , they were six pounds and a farm labourer then was getting seventeen shillings . |
| 5 | The the scheduler , Pauline I ca n't make her out , she seems to be fairly u straight , organized but it had got to the situation where I mean I did n't like it but it happened , we were supplying six months of product and then was supplying six months . |
| 6 | The decision to go ahead was made two years ago , but has been prevented by opposition led by the local Anchuranas Defence Co-ordination . |