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

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1	In the academic year 1967–8 there were 30,000 too many students in Paris alone .
2	In the eighteenth century , Montesquieu argued that there were three entirely separate functions of government : legislative , executive and judicial , and that these three functions should be exercised by entirely separate organs , Parliament , the Executive and the Courts .
3	Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street .
4	In Greek mythology there were three unusually hideous gorgons who lived beneath the sea .
5	Four raw feet dangled in the icy water ; on the bank were four newly broken-in boots .
6	There were there were four there this morning when I went to work .
7	There were 71 mainly inner-city schools in PNP Phase 1 , 56 schools in Phase 2 , with the remaining 103 schools being in Phase 3 .
8	Related to perception were two strongly contrasting ways of taking in and becoming aware of what was happening .
9	There were two closely related matters which concerned men of the late Middle Ages .
10	as if what I thought and what I said were two completely different things .
11	Crawford always insisted that he and Frank Spencer were two completely different people , but it was sometimes difficult to escape the comparisons .
12	As we entered the village and turned right there were two dead German soldiers lying in the middle of the road .
13	Amongst dramatic recoveries were two chronically deaf patients who had also been suffering from totally disabling tinnitus .
14	As you may have gathered , Carl and Sam were two totally different persons .
15	The organization of the new regiment was somewhat confused as there were two totally different tables of establishment .
16	A sudden fear gripped Lucy , and as she peered into the impenetrable shadows on either side she realised that the bush by day and the bush by night were two totally different places .
17	Traditionally , there were two fairly distinct camps .
18	Added to these were two much subtler plays — the poisoned statue and his plans for the Wiring Project .
19	But the giant meccano structures further inland were two half finished oil rigs , the guide reassured .
20	I used to have a Spectrum ( sorry ) up until a year ago , and there were two really amazing games called Orc Attack and Car Wars which I loved and lost .
21	I ache a bit — there were two quite long pitches to climb down , and getting back up is always harder ! ’
22	All the women were , and that 's true of of the hosiery industry , of course you 've got a a there 's a big distinction between the hosiery industry as such and the hosiery finishing industry which was then the , they 're amalgamated now , but there were two entirely distinct unions , in tho Er as a matter of fact they n n they never met together .
23	Mr Bashir said : ‘ These were two very desperate attempts to save his long marriage and long relationship . ’
24	Inside were two very fine pistols , some silver , pipe-tobacco , and an old clock .
25	Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous .
26	No , I think we were two very volatile people .
27	I was eight o'clock last night you know .
28	Yeah , it was five o'clock this morning when we got out of here .
29	There was one rather serious minus in the countdown .
30	But anyway , this was the first we have such a conference every five years , but over a thousand of us sat around for a week and talked about evolution , and there was one rather curious fact about Vancouver , or the media of Vancouver , during that week .