Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier .
2 The people from the highest paid to the lowest paid were all just one unit .
3 But erm when I lost my sight then he had to close that down and come back so we were all under one roof again .
4 The Andes of Peru , for example , provided animals like the llama and alpaca which were domesticated approximately 7 kyr BP , and in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico the first permanent agricultural systems of the Americas were developed c. 8 or 9 kyr BP .
5 were cheap then eighteen pound were n't it ?
6 Was that about two foot four ?
7 Terry Petherick was well over six foot .
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