Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Away from the island the wind converted itself into a westerly and we were surfing at ten knots even with two slabs in the main and the genoa furled to almost nothing .
2 A minimum of 10 , 5 ml boluses of water were given at 30 second intervals .
3 Sir Gregory ( who was rumoured to be Sam Gristy 's father ) provided quantities of ale and beef , which were consumed at three sittings in Mother Russell 's front kitchen , after which there was dancing to lutes and drums .
4 Cells were harvested at 48 h post-infection , washed with phosphate-buffered saline , and lysed at 4°C in 50 mM Tris hydrochloride ( pH 8.0 ) -150 mM NaCl-0.5% Nonidet P-40 .
5 Cells were harvested at 48 h post infection .
6 The 1992 figures were reported at 13 weeks and the 1993 ones at 14 weeks .
7 The 1992 figures were reported at 13 weeks and the 1993 ones at 14 weeks .
8 The 1992 figures were reported at 14 weeks .
9 If it took you 15 minutes then you were walking at 4 m.p.h. : Speed = Distance/Time = 1 mile/0.25 hours
10 In the event , 73 speakers were interviewed at 38 addresses .
11 Most public-sector salaries were frozen at 1992 levels and " 13th month " wage payments were reduced .
12 Once stone free the patients were evaluated at six months interval .
13 If the fragments were smaller than 5 mm chemolitholytic therapy was continued and the patients were evaluated at three months interval until stone free .
14 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 .
15 Eight animals from each group were killed at 16 weeks and the remainder ( 22 per group ) were sacrified at 32 weeks .
16 In the first group ( n=40 ) , half received calcium supplementation ( n=20 ) ; 16 animals ( eight receiving calcium ) were sacrified at 16 weeks ; the remainder were sacrified at 32 weeks .
17 In the first group ( n=40 ) , half received calcium supplementation ( n=20 ) ; 16 animals ( eight receiving calcium ) were sacrified at 16 weeks ; the remainder were sacrified at 32 weeks .
18 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 .
19 By 1883 the Titfords were living at 2 Mount Terrace , Curry Rivel , where Benjamin was supplementing his income — a trick he had learned from his father ? — by acting as an insurance agent for the ‘ Lancashire ’ .
20 When Minton became friends with her and Rodrigo , they were living at 155 Old Church Street , not far from the popular Queen 's Elm pub in the Fulham Road .
21 This year 's awards were made at two ceremonies — one of which was in Bengkalis Regency for the students who live in LASMO 's field operations area .
22 Intensive surface geophysical surveys comprising galvanic resistivity , electromagnetic ( including TEM ) , magnetic and radiometric measurements were made at four sites in where strong photolineaments , which were assumed to indicate regional-scale faulting , have been recognised .
23 Measurements of electrical conductivity and susceptibility were made at 20 frequencies per decade from 5Hz to 20MHz on samples saturated with 0.5M aqueous NaCl solution with a two-electrode system .
24 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 .
25 Homogenates were centrigued at 40000 g for 90 minutes at 4°C , and the pellet was resuspended in homogenisation buffer .
26 Forward scouts reported that the enemy were massing at two points ahead , at their large camp below the castle hill and also nearer the town , but that the Yair ford itself was not guarded .
27 One point to remember , incidentally , is that in those days all recordings were played at 78 rpm , so each side ran only a few minutes .
28 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 .
29 Dialysis probes were perfused at 2.5 L/min with a sterilised pyrogen-free , artificial extracellular fluid ( NaC1 135 mmol/L , KC1 3 mmol/L , MgC1 1.0 mmol/L , CaC1 1.2 mmol/L , ascorbate 200 micromoles /L , and a sodium phosphate buffer of 2 mmol/L to pH 7.4 ) .
30 The two sleeves were perfused at 0.3 ml/min .
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