Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the usual practice when mail was given out : a recipient of a letter would normally get 150 , two letters 300 , and the penalties for a parcel were 500 and above depending on its contents . |
| 2 | Now U have to confess that there were two that never went on sale . |
| 3 | Among the many new and original talks personalities brought to Canadian listeners from the west coast were two that really caught the public imagination . |
| 4 | He was fifty-five and still filled with plans for a united Spain . |
| 5 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 6 | The population recorded in the late 19th century was 305 and today has grown to 2,370 . |
| 7 | He was seventy and continually engaged in frenetic schemes to bolster up his old age . |
| 8 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 9 | He had run away from his home in Chicago when he was fifteen and still bore the scars from the beating he had received at the hands of his father after his parents had discovered he was gay . |
| 10 | Sculpture , being Fine Art , he did not tackle till he was 27 and well established and then seemingly by way of therapeutic sublimation during a period of enforced sexual abstinence whilst his wife was pregnant . |
| 11 | Canadian Arthur Thompson played until he was 103 and even equalled his age in one round that year . |
| 12 | Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car . |
| 13 | John Berger believes it raises more questions than meet the eye Photograph of Pollock in his studio by Hans Namuth The suicide of art Pollock and Lee Krasner : when they first met she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 14 | When she first met Pollock she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 15 | ‘ He left my mother when I was four and never gave her a penny after that . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 17 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 18 | Richard was born in 1961 , when Olivier was 54 and already acclaimed as one of the world 's great actors . |