Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were there were four there this morning when I went to work . |
| 2 | But the giant meccano structures further inland were two half finished oil rigs , the guide reassured . |
| 3 | I was eight o'clock last night you know . |
| 4 | Yeah , it was five o'clock this morning when we got out of here . |
| 5 | There was one rather serious minus in the countdown . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , among the several people I had there was one rather unique fellow . |
| 8 | There was one rather large living-room , and a small bedroom , the door to which was covered by a curtain . |
| 9 | But there was one rather important difference : in classical criminology the criminal justice system , properly reformed , was seen as the means of reducing crime . |
| 10 | The domestic political stress caused in West Germany by such an influx ( which also of course , further undermined the East German economy , since many were skilled and professional people ) was one very good reason why Bonn was prepared to pour aid into its neighbour . |
| 11 | There was one very large unit of 120 sows , taking 1,100 pigs through to finishing ; the other units had 10–20 breeding sows and 180–400 fattening pigs . |
| 12 | She was getting ready to go out , however , when , in a flash of unwanted certainty , she knew that there was one very big reason why she should n't be attracted to Ven — because he was not attracted to her , and it was all one-sided , that was why ! |
| 13 | Yo do you there was one very bonny lass and she was on the er , they , they had erm composite programme the other the other week and she was on that again . |
| 14 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 15 | It is no coincidence that a number of smaller mints are located at royal estate-centres , and there was one quite important mint at the palace — that is , within the king 's peripatetic household . |
| 16 | They told him , however , that they were short of staff and the earliest they could give a result was nine o'clock that night . |
| 17 | It was seven o'clock Romanian time when they landed at Otopeni Airport . |