Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [prep] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As when it was eight to nine o'clock at night sometimes up to twelve o'clock , depends on how many was going out . |
| 2 | Now you wish to advance your clock so natural lighting at what was 5 to 11 o'clock in the morning on old time is good , but bright light at what was 9 o'clock in the evening to 3 o'clock in the morning is undesirable . |
| 3 | It was ten to seven now . |
| 4 | This subject was one of those most popular with young ladies and considered essential for their education . |
| 5 | This region was one of those most affected by the depopulation of villages and hamlets , several having recently been enclosed ; large numbers of poor in parts point to consequent loss of employment , although it is not clear whether people had actually been turned off the land or the townships had gradually contracted . |
| 6 | CELLULOID RECORDS was one of those insanely annoying New York labels where everyone seemed to be making records based on weird theories and somehow all the records were great . |
| 7 | Saunders thrashed a shot just past the angle two minutes before the interval but it was one of those nearly nights for Villa and an occasion when the script was already written for super-dad Polston. 930325 |
| 8 | One of these , the Schandoney equalising hitch , was one of those deceptively simple inventions like the horse collar or the water wheel . |
| 9 | She was one of those deceptively fragile girls who look plumper naked than clothed : she had beautiful breasts . |
| 10 | The day after your dinner party was one of those really bright winter days . |
| 11 | It was one of those brilliantly simple ideas people always wish they had had themselves , and believe that somehow they could have had ; no need to incur any extra expense or make any more sizes than anybody else , or necessarily to distinguish one 's product in other way , yet just by the idea one has a potential market of half the jeans-buying public , or at least that proportion of it which has always felt that they are somehow perpetually between the usual sizes . |
| 12 | He was one of those relatively few actors — Ian McKellen and Simon Callow are others — who somehow boost the confidence of regular theatregoers by taking the opportunity of a free evening to watch fellow actors at work . |
| 13 | Probably it would n't take much to reactivate things , but on the other hand , if she was one of those drearily perennial virgins it was n't really worth the effort . |
| 14 | It was one of those very profound observations which was misunderstood at the time but is now widely accepted by Roman Catholic scholars among others . |
| 15 | No , that wo n't do , but it was one of those there . |
| 16 | It was one of those still , lovely evenings that you sometimes get in October . |
| 17 | I wish there was one of these near |