Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tea , sugar , soup and bread were given to 54 people . |
| 2 | This fragment , measuring only a few square centimetres , was divided up and samples , the equivalent of about 50 mg in weight , were given to three accelerator laboratories in Oxford , Zurich and Tucson . |
| 3 | Every member of a household down to the youngest child will be eligible for perks , whereas for British Telecom and British Gas they were limited to one set per metered outlet . |
| 4 | Without oxygen we were limited to 10,000 feet , but the published ceiling is FL360 at max weight , increasing well into the forties as fuel is burned . |
| 5 | When ITV started , both channels were limited to 50 hours a week and not more than 8 on any one day . |
| 6 | Families who wished to emigrate and girls looking for domestic jobs were referred to two societies affiliated to the COS , the East End Emigration Society and the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants . |
| 7 | Those with urinary albumin excretion above 30 mg/24 h were assigned to 20 mg enalapril per day in an open fashion . |
| 8 | Animals were housed in an animal care facility that is approved by the American Association for Accrediaton of Laboratory Animal Care and they were exposed to 12 hours of alternating light and dark cycles . |
| 9 | Purified GST-fusion proteins ( 6 mg ) were adjusted to 150 mM NaCl and 2.5 mM CaCl 2 in a volume of 500 ml and incubated with 680 ng thrombin ( sigma T3010 ) at 25°C for 90 minutes to yield full length CREB or ATF1 . |
| 10 | In May 1943 Hampton and his crew were posted to 223 Squadron at Fauconnerie , flying Baltimore IIIs on daylight raids against a wide range of targets . |
| 11 | Tea , margarine and cooking fat were rationed to 2 ozs per week . |
| 12 | Aliquots of tissue homogenate ( 20 µl ) were added to 10 ml plastic tubes containing 100 µl of a buffer consisting of 50 mM potassium phosphate pH 7.2 , 60 mM L-valine , 120 µM NADPH , 1.2 mM L-citrulline , 24 µM L-arginine , L-[U- 1 4 C ] -arginine ( 150000 dpm ) , 1.2 mM MgCl 2 , and 0.24 mM CaCl 2 . |
| 13 | Fifteen µl of vehicle were added to 1.5 ml of control suspensions . |
| 14 | Two ml of ethanol were added to 0.5 ml of serum . |
| 15 | If the melodic line were confined to two octaves with all the violins on the top octave and the violas and cellos in unison on the lower octave , no woodwind doubling of the strings would be necessary , and the woodwind would then be used to double the brass chords . |
| 16 | Normally our tours were confined to three months but occasionally , according to the availability of experienced officers , this might be extended to longer periods . |
| 17 | At El Castillo two adjacent bisons were dated to 13,060 BP plus or minus 200 , and 12,910 BP plus or minus 180 . |
| 18 | The Commissar , 22 year old Peter Jacobs and 21 year old Nicklo Pedro were sentenced to 14 years . |
| 19 | The hearings , closed to foreign observers , began on Feb. 5 , and on Feb. 12 two of the accused were sentenced to 13 years in prison , but those showing " repentance " were less severely treated . |
| 20 | Michel Gbagbo , son of the IPF leader , and 44 others were sentenced to one year 's imprisonment . |
| 21 | The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years . |
| 22 | A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 . |
| 23 | Nathan Adams , 18 , David Elsom , 17 , Jason Green , 17 , Simon Lindley , 17 , Gavin Saunders , 17 , Richard Whittaker , 18 and Nicholas Crook , 18 , were sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 24 | 1981 , Richard Helier and an associate were convicted in a federal court in Madison , Wisconsin , of numerous counts of diverting institutional funds ; later they were sentenced to three years in prison . |
| 25 | Garcia resigned his seat in January 1990 , shortly before the two were sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 26 | Nine miners were sentenced to three months ' imprisonment on Jan. 26 for " obstructing the freedom to work " . |
| 27 | Twenty-six officers were sentenced to death , three peers , including Derwentwater , were executed ; of the rank and file 700 were sentenced to seven years ' transportation to the West Indies . |
| 28 | In the western Amazonian town of Xapuri , Acre province , a cattle rancher , Darly Alves da Silva , 56 , and his son Darci Alves Pereire , 23 , were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment on Dec. 15 for the premeditated murder of Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho , the internationally acclaimed environmentalist and leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union , who was murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 29 | Rancher Darli Alves da Silva and his son Darci Alves Perreira were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment in 1990 for the killing of Mendes in 1988 . |
| 30 | Darli Alves da Silva , a rancher in his early 50s , and his son were sentenced to 19 years in prison for ambushing Mr Mendes at his home in a remote village near Rio Branco . |