Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 2 | At the Paris pret-a-porter shows last month , there were 70 of these women among the 300 photographers who registered with the Chambre Syndicale for a Photographe pass . |
| 3 | As shown in table II , seronegative children who had received IPV were 2 to 14 times more likely to seroconvert than those who had received OPV ; seroconversion rates in the IPV group were from 67% to 100% , compared with only 5% to 53% in the OPV group ( p < 0.001 ) . |
| 4 | On top of the hill was a wood of beech trees surrounded by a stone wall ; I climbed the wall and found that underneath the trees were hundreds of moss-covered gravestones of soldiers from Napoleon 's Imperial Army who had died of disease while waiting to invade England . |
| 5 | There were hundreds of small workings out of which the " eyes " had been picked and indeed Grassington Moor had the appearance of a lunar landscape — and still has . |
| 6 | There were hundreds of exotic handles used in the Middle Ages to describe a witch . |
| 7 | In those days — we 're talking 1890 to about 1915 — there were hundreds of different brands and varieties of guitars being made in the United States , but it 's hard to say for sure that any of them were actually distributed in Hawaii — it was kind of off the beaten track . |
| 8 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 9 | There were hundreds of lengthy letters and technical critiques from concerned individuals , including engineers , academics , politicians , scores of organizations and over sixty local authorities from all round Britain . |
| 10 | At the far end were hundreds of skinned carcasses . |
| 11 | A recent study , published in The Lancet , found that premature babies were six to ten times more likely to get necrotising enterocolitis — the most common , serious gastro-intestinal disease seen in special-care units — if they had been fed formula milk in place of breast milk . |
| 12 | The aliens were three to four metres ( 10-13ft ) tall , but with very small heads . |
| 13 | Roof trusses , which had been on a two week delivery when we enquired , were three to four weeks delivery when we ordered them . |
| 14 | Most lenders waited until payments were three to six months in arrears before seeking repossession orders , and by the time a court order was granted most families had moved out . |
| 15 | The studies followed on from research in the US ( New England Journal of Medicine , p 689 ) and London ( Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology vol 237 , p 567 ) which suggested that children with more than 12 micrograms of lead per 100 millilitres of blood had IQs which were 5 to 7 points below the expected value . |
| 16 | In 1973 there were 178 nests in 10 colonies ; and there were 179 in 10 colonies in 1976 , when two sites usually holding five to 10 pairs were not visited . |
| 17 | There were thirty-five to forty-foot sets . |
| 18 | The follow up study was restricted to participants from the first study who were 25 to 74 years of age at baseline . |
| 19 | There were five of these sites and in the tot in total nine hundred and twenty eight operations were performed over the five sites . |
| 20 | Buildings were five to six storeys high , and this , combined with the tiny Hinterhöfe , allowed inhabitants virtually no light and minimal air circulation . |
| 21 | If your town was cabled and you were one of 80,000 house-holders who paid a subscription , you could get a variety of extra specialized channels such as sport and movies . |
| 22 | In the first place , it is clear that the working class , along with the middle class , was reducing its fertility — although there were one of two exceptions in some of the most depressed industrial towns . |
| 23 | The orphans were one of these phenomena , as was the great Famine of 1921 2 . |
| 24 | Forecast winds were 290/20 at 2,000 feet and 300/15 at 5,000 feet . |
| 25 | However , the collection of this variety must have been considerable : Collinson noted on the back of a print of the Magnolia grandiflora flower in his copy of Catesby 's Natural History of Carolina , that there were twenty-nine of these trees at Goodwood in 1759 , two of them twenty feet high . |
| 26 | In England in 1986 , the numbers of such units officially recognised by the DES were 1247 in primary schools and 660 in secondary schools . |
| 27 | The total number and the number of propagated and non-propagated contractions were two to four times higher during the upright than the supine period ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 28 | Building them often took twice as long as planned , and costs were two to three times the original estimate . |
| 29 | Ratios of still births to live births tend to be larger at high orders than at second order but , in developed countries , particularly , the ratios at sixth , but mainly seventh and higher birth orders were two to three times that among first order births . |
| 30 | The portion of women with complications of toxaemia rose sharply with age ; rates were two to three times higher for older women ( 40–44 ) than for younger ones , depending upon parity . |