Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Glycated haemoglobin and plasma electrolyte concentrations were checked every two months .
2 Serum glucose concentrations were measured every 2.5 to five minutes by the glucose oxidase method ( Beckman glucose analyser , Beckman Instruments ) .
3 After watching a film of a car accident some subjects were asked the two questions in ( 3 ) .
4 Subsequently , after consumption of a test meal , gall bladder images were made every 15 minutes for 2 hours .
5 The animals were allowed a two week recovery period after surgery before experiments began .
6 The Donbass miners were demanding a 100-150 per cent pay rise , but the Kuzbass strike was exclusively political , the miners demanding Gorbachev 's resignation , dissolution of the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies , and the transfer of power to the Federation Council .
7 When the prayers were ended the three girls kissed him goodnight in turn , and Rose went with him to their room .
8 The campaign for the upper house elections — where one half of the 252 seats were contested every three years — began formally on July 8 .
9 Even although stations were established every four to nine miles along this immense line of rail , the boomers often chose the wrong spots .
10 On the prairie transcontinental and branch lines , stations were required every five to ten miles for the convenience of farmers bringing their grain to the station elevators in horse-drawn vehicles .
11 The health-care workers were demanding a 300 per cent pay rise and extra funding for health care .
12 The health workers were seeking a 100 per cent wage increase and improved conditions .
13 Since the Del Mar organisers were given the 1992 final , they have built a £3 million arena alongside one of the finest race courses in the country .
14 The manometer ports were spaced every 2.5 cm and perfused at a constant pressure of 15 cm h 2 o with distilled water ( a total volume 0.3 ml/min ) .
15 Subsequently , endosonography and computed tomographic examinations were performed every two or three months to assess the response to treatment or relapse .
16 Senate and House committees were re-examining the 1980 election for evidence of that rogue Iranian factor mentioned earlier .
17 Patients were seen every two weeks throughout the trial .
18 The patients were seen every three months at their local hospital jointly by their own physician and the trial coordinator .
19 Patients were reviewed every two months and the duodenum inspected endoscopically at the beginning of the trial , at approximately 4 , 8 , and 12 months , and if the patient developed recurrent dyspepsia that persisted after three days of simple antacid treatment ( Maalox , maximum 30 tablets per month ) .
20 The doctors had their salaries increased by 50 per cent , while the teachers were granted a 20 per cent rise .
21 The vials were changed every 10 minutes so that fractions of 4 ml were collected for each time interval .
22 The evidence showed , according to Mr Craven , that wherever individual party members were given the one member , one vote opportunity to voice their views , they rejected the hard left .
23 The Guatemalan army was launching a scorched earth policy , which laid waste to hundreds of Indian villages ; in El Salvador , the death squads were dumping a thousand bodies a month on the streets ; in Nicaragua , the Contra war was just beginning to put the Sandinista revolution into reverse .
24 The signs were repeated every ten yards .
25 Thereafter , ultrasonography and laboratory tests were done every three months and ERCP every six months , during the two first years of follow up .
26 Repeat colonoscopies were performed every 6 months for the entire 2 year follow up period , and any metachronous adenomas that had occurred were removed .
27 It might even result in information which , in turn , could help to elucidate why army undercover men were stealing the three vehicles that night a few months earlier near William Black 's house at the junction of Black 's Road and Tildarg .
28 ‘ The Protons were basically a punk rock band , ’ Lenny explains , as the ‘ Weed luxuriate in the compact and bijou confines of the third support band 's dressing facilities at the London Astoria , ‘ and these two guys were doing a '60s R&B thing .
29 Then basal samples were collected every 15 minutes for one hour followed by four 15 minute samples collected during intravenous infusion of pentagastrin ( 6 µg/kg/hr ) .
30 Blood samples were collected every 15 minutes for gastrin determination and the plasma stored at -20°C .
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