Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred years later there were 90,000 and the town had a bad reputation for strikes . |
| 2 | The advance of the qualities was dramatic — sales in 1988 were two and a half times those of 1945 , with five quality dailies instead of two . |
| 3 | The total electorate was 12,319,787 and the turnout was 75 per cent . |
| 4 | The ratio for the Dow Jones Industrial Index was 0.6673 while the average for the 34 funds was 0.633 and only 11 of the funds had ratios higher than that of the index . |
| 5 | The year was 1876 and the coachman was later fined for his behaviour , but the incident illustrates the reactionary 's response to new forms of transport . |
| 6 | After 10 ends the score was 18-1 and the match was over as a contest . |
| 7 | Using a scale of 1 to 5 [ 5 best , 1 worst ] , the top score was 4.48 and the average for all 30 was 3.74 . |
| 8 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 9 | I was six when the war started . |
| 10 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 11 | It was ten-thirty and the wedding was fixed for an hour 's time . |
| 12 | well he should only be eight and a half , I mean they told us he was three and a half when he was rescued . |
| 13 | In the indirect immunofluorescence assay method the sensitivity of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies for ulcerative colitis was 0.75 and the specificity 0.88 ; using the ELISA technique our figures were 0.39 and 0.97 respectively ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 14 | Back then the population of Darlington was just was 5,000 but the facility was open only to men . |
| 15 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 16 | Gustave met Mme Schlesinger at Trouville : he was fourteen and a half , she twenty-six . |
| 17 | The house itself was 1914 or a bit earlier , steeply pitched slate roofs and high chimneys : bijou Lutyens for the leaner purse . |
| 18 | The actual figure for applications in October was 4,400 and the number is likely to reach between 45,000 and 50,000 this year , whereas we used to receive 2,000 or 3,000 applications . |
| 19 | At Boston Spa , for example , there were no adequate washing facilities for 16 years ; at Exeter , it was 1887 before the school got hot water facilities ; at Old Kent Road , the installation of gas pipes which could have provided better lighting was rejected in 1833 on the grounds the cost was exorbitant and that the children could make do with candles . |
| 20 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
| 21 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 22 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 23 | It was 1987 and the State of Emergency in South Africa was strangling the black opposition . |
| 24 | Jane could never remember which , but it was one or the other . |
| 25 | ‘ It was one or the other of your bright boy-friends who sent me this , was it ? ’ he demanded , tossing the paper down in front of her . |
| 26 | And Terry was nine and a half . |
| 27 | After a long struggle , Mexico finally refused to pay : it was 1982 and the country had an 80-billion-dollar debt . |
| 28 | When my teenage son heard that the visitor was 60 and a bachelor , there was silence . |
| 29 | The pH of the solution was 7.2 and the osmolarity 290 mmol/l . |
| 30 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |