Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [adj] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the key elements of ‘ owlness ’ were absent , or only a few were present , the birds showed some curiosity about the dummy but were not stimulated to perform the full mobbing response . |
| 2 | Anthropology had begun the slow erosion of certainty of the absolute superiority of European civilization , although only a few were aware of what was happening . |
| 3 | Discussion revealed that women 's interests lay very much with lambing , first aid , dairy husbandry and financial management although quite a few were doubtful about their capacity to cope with the last of these subjects . |
| 4 | Some thousands of searches were logged automatically , and about a thousand were studied in some detail . |
| 5 | In 1986 almost half the people aged over 85 , for example , were unable to go out of doors and walk down the road on their own , and almost a third were unable to manage stairs . |
| 6 | The Defence Ministry operational headquarters in Colombo was the target of a suicide bombing on June 21 in which 11 soldiers and 10 civilians died , and over a hundred were wounded . |
| 7 | So much so that , despite the recession , more than 250,000 new businesses have been started in the last 12 months — and over a third were set up by women . |