Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A minimum of 10 , 5 ml boluses of water were given at 30 second intervals . |
| 2 | Five licences were granted at one session at Singleton ; three related to tiny parcels , while a whole virgate was let by a recently admitted tenant to his brother , presumably the elder , the younger having inherited under the custom of borough English , and probably under age . |
| 3 | I live in France now , and I 'm married to a Frenchman , but my introduction to drama was through an amateur dramatic society in Stanmore , where we were living at one time . |
| 4 | 5–8 Field grown new potatoes were selling at one shilling per stone of 14 lbs , but owing to the abundance of grass there were few cattle at the Bridgend July market . |
| 5 | Observations were noted at ten second intervals for a number of old people in four different settings , day centres , day hospitals , geriatric hospital wards and local authority residential homes . |
| 6 | Bracing himself , he began to walk up the wall , his hands using the knots which were tied at two foot intervals to aid his grip . |
| 7 | End expiratory breath samples were taken at 10–15 minute intrvals after ingestion of the meal for breath hydrogen analysis . |
| 8 | Watch makers were forced at one time to accept either bread tickets or else take payment in cheap watches which they could sell only at a loss . |
| 9 | Most of us were encouraged at one time to ‘ dress up ’ and look pretty . |
| 10 | Such a gradient would arise if a substance were synthesized at one end , or along one edge , of a region , and destroyed at the other . |
| 11 | The OMT were tested at 1-in-2 dilution ( 1 in 100 for serum ) and specific HIV-1-bound antibody was detected by biotin/anti-human-IgG followed by avidin-peroxidase . |
| 12 | After the addition of agonist , 30 s segments of data were recorded at 1 minute intervals for 10- 15 minutes . |
| 13 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 14 | These antidotes to scientific management were aimed at two management problem areas , concerning moral and operational issues , respectively . |
| 15 | It was intended at one stage to extend the line as far as Portsmouth ! |
| 16 | She was rich , beautiful , clever and amusing , and her wit became renowned ; she was featured in the picture papers , in the scandal sheets , and everyone of consequence was reported at one time or another to be going to marry her . |
| 17 | It is unsound to argue that Svidrigailov 's experience was only a bad dream , because the manuscript variants prove that Dostoevsky was prepared at one stage to forego the actuality of the sexual outcome between Stavrogin and the child . |
| 18 | Intensity of symptoms was scored from mild=1 to severe=3 throughout the study ; the duration of symptoms was evaluated at one minute intervals . |
| 19 | At the 1843 Convention Haydon 's picture was hung at one end of the room ; above the chairman was a portrait of Clarkson and opposite it ‘ A Scene on the African Coast ’ . |
| 20 | Although it was bombed at one stage . |
| 21 | It was chaired at one time by Peter Wright , author of Spycatcher . |
| 22 | A fountain system was uncovered at one end of the dining room , which gives onto the swimming pool , together with a room with a hot bath adjoining . |
| 23 | The the trust has actually approached several Council 's in the area not just Harlow Council obviously but many many other Councils and I think there was only one other Council that provided some funding and that was something like two hundred and fifty pounds was offered at one time I think that 's ceased now so there is no other Council although although it 'd be interesting tonight although fifty per cent of the people who actually use this facility actually come from outside the town but there 's no funding directly or indirectly from any other Council so my knowledge would be if you exclude B P exclude General Portfolio perhaps I 'm doing other companies a disservice I ca n't think of any other major company in town that 's actually provided but Gordon can you think of . |
| 24 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 25 | Mm and I was told at one stage that they used to revert back to Yorkshire |
| 26 | The abbot of Hailes , who kept a flock of 900 head at Longborough , was accused at one point of harassing his tenants there preparatory to enclosure , though he never went through with it . |
| 27 | It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases . |
| 28 | A particular substance , tetra-hydro. iso-quinolone ( THIQ ) , was thought at one time to be the active chemical " cause " of addiction but this is no longer thought to be precise cause . |
| 29 | The aircraft passed 50°W longitude at 1150 hours and at that time communications could not be established , the aircraft was cleared to climb to 33,000 feet and this altitude was reached at 1217 hour . |
| 30 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |