Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before counting ( LKB Wallac 1260 Multigamma II counter ) they were transferred to a second Falcon tube to exclude 1 2 5 I-IFN γ bound to plastic . |
| 2 | The estimated time to get to sleep after going to bed was reduced to a quarter of the baseline levels , and reports of difficulty in getting to sleep were reduced to a third of what they had been . |
| 3 | Twenty-one years after the end of the First World War the British people were subjected to a second war , which , while it produced only half as many British military casualties as the first , struck more radically at the lives of ordinary civilians . |
| 4 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |
| 5 | In this election , Senghor himself was elected to a third seven-year term as president . |
| 6 | To address this difficulty the algorithm was changed to a depth-first one . |