Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visibility on the M3 in Hampshire was down to 100 yards in places , while heavy frost was making driving ‘ tricky ’ in Dorset . |
| 2 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 3 | Marylebone Road was up by eight point two percent , Rock Circus attendances were up by twenty eight percent and Chessington twenty one percent . |
| 4 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 5 | Supplies from Russia via Georgia were down by one-third , due to a combination of pressure from Azerbaijan , pilfering , and local disruption as a result of fighting in the area . |
| 6 | Fifty for one , Botham was out for eight |
| 7 | Harrow had grounds for confidence at tea when they were more than half way there but Martin , taking six for 43 with his slow left-armers continued to attack and Harrow were out for 194 with a few minutes left , despite a valiant 97 from Charles Danby . |
| 8 | After seven holes , Sheehan was ahead , still 14 under where Coe-Jones was back to 13 under after dropping a shot at the short and watery fifth . |
| 9 | In the days when unemployment in parts of East Cleveland was up to 90 per cent , Tippett was invited to direct musical activities at special work camps set up at Boosbeck , largely to cultivate rough land . |
| 10 | Britain 's non-oil exports to France were up by 12 per cent last December , compared to the same month the year before . |
| 11 | The LCC area had declined in population by 0.2 per cent overall , but within that Lewisham had increased by 26 per cent and Wandsworth by 34 per cent ; the population of Middlesex was up by 42 per cent in ten years , Essex and Surrey both by 30 per cent , while the population of Ireland had fallen by another 2 per cent . |
| 12 | But within a fortnight Karl was back to zero — ‘ as bad as ever ’ . |
| 13 | And right at the death , when Bangor were down to 14 men with scrum half Stephen Matchett receiving treatment , McMaster finished off a fine move sparked by McCall 's half break . |
| 14 | Alan Shearer and Mike Newell were up against five at the front and it was very difficult for them . ’ |
| 15 | Downton and Emburey kept him company for a while , and when number eleven Dilley joined him he had 69 ; when Dilley was out for 2 next morning Willey had completed his century , a splendid 102 not out that took England to 271 , Croft finishing with 6 for 74 . |
| 16 | An extreme example is bracken , Pteridium aquilinum ; Oinonen ( 1967 ) showed that individual clones in Finland were up to 1440 years old and one old clone extended over an area of 474 × 292 m . |
| 17 | Up to this point as I said Leeds had been on top — this included a period when Hodge was off the field after colliding with a Crewe player and injuring his wrist , thus Leeds were down to ten men . |
| 18 | James was up at 1 am on Tuesday 1 July 1690 , in immaculate uniform decorated with star and garter , ready for the battle to decide who should rule England . |
| 19 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |