Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] it was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been in a couple of times and I said that I wanted a chaise you see ooh I got this erm one for Victorian one it 's very nice , and lovely warm you know , the legs anyway it was one one thousand three hundred you see , so I thought , oh I said well I did n't wan na |
| 2 | Until about nine months ago it was normal to heap all the blame on his Interior Secretary , James Wan , a born-again Christian who has stuck to the letter of Genesis in his attempts to have the Earth subdued . |
| 3 | Five months ago it was tens of thousands , quickly to become millions , of Chinese invoking his name as a symbol of the political reforms which their own rulers would not give them . |
| 4 | Only a few months ago it was full of optimism , with real GNP growing at 5% a year , financial markets soaring , companies rushing to invest , and consumers strutting the streets with their furs and Rolex watches . |
| 5 | Similarly , with the state lacking means of its own to regulate the conduct of business by its subjects overseas it was convenient to delegate this function to the great trading companies , which also assumed responsibility for general colonial administration . |
| 6 | Innocent commenced his papacy in Rome , but he died in Perugia , a papal town , in the summer months when it was customary for the papal curia to leave Rome . |
| 7 | Even in today 's nuclear age such a claim would be widely reported ; three decades ago it was front-page news throughout the Western world . |
| 8 | He has pointed both to its overall lack of numbers and to the fact that some of the areas where it was strong , west Cornwall for example , were not in any case likely locations for revolutionary agitation . |
| 9 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |
| 10 | For Macmillan nineteen years later it was still , to be fair , a matter of regret . |
| 11 | In 1865 , the infant mortality rate was 154 per thousand live births ; a hundred years later it was 21.8 per thousand ( Registrar General , 1963 ) . |
| 12 | When the champion hurdler , Beech Road , and Morley Street won at Cheltenham ten days ago it was hard to say which put up the better performance and which would be the stable 's first choice for the Champion Hurdle should both be trained for the race . |
| 13 | Ten years ago it was 42 . |
| 14 | Okay , yeah better transport technology a hundred and fifty years ago it was impossible t erm , to transport meat across the Atlantic it 's er , very straightforward now so the advent of different types of , er , transport technology and improved transport technology erm , has made tr , facilitated trade okay . |
| 15 | However , there is no escaping the fact that fifteen years ago it was rare to see wildly deranged people on the streets of London and other major cities . |
| 16 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
| 17 | About thirty years ago it was first demonstrated that a drug , 6-mercaptopurine , suppressed the immune response to bovine serum albumen in the rabbit . |
| 18 | As for Italy , when I lived there 20 years ago it was common knowledge that many small businesses kept two sets of books : one for the authorities , the other for real . |
| 19 | Years ago it was common to graft different varieties onto a single tree trunk . |
| 20 | Well I used the word to mo er in a report I was writing years ago it was ten years ago and I knew what I meant but I had n't sat down and defined what I meant , perhaps I should have done . |
| 21 | Ten years ago it was full of Italians , who , when the Hispanics moved in , drove through and shot from car windows . |
| 22 | Two hundred years ago it was those recipes listed under the heading of creams which were much more like the fruit fools of today . |
| 23 | actually but Well when we came in forty odd forty odd years ago it was twenty three and six a week . |
| 24 | Six years ago it was nuclear disarmament , then the Ethiopian famine and now , animal rights . |
| 25 | The expectation of life at birth for women born in 1976 was 75.8 years , while for those born 50 years earlier it was 59.3 years . |
| 26 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 27 | Ever photogenic , Castle Street in Farnham in the days when it was possible to capture the scene without any parked cars . |
| 28 | These were the days when it was possible to have a lease for life . |
| 29 | As for heating bills — this was summer-time — what was his wife burning on the occasional days when it was cool — gold-dust ? |
| 30 | Although many new additions cluster around the older buildings , the old mill still stands proudly over all , a reminder of the days when it was one of the biggest and most important mills in the area . |