Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 3 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 4 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 5 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 6 | Indeed , restaurants , cafes and licensed premises which sell liquor for consumption on the premises ( e.g. pubs and wine bars ) were for the first time was the 1987 Use Classes Order brought within a stated class . |
| 7 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 8 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 9 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 10 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 11 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 12 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 13 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 14 | Weight was documented in 82/90 and 19 ( 23% ) were below the third percentile . |
| 15 | Around one quartr of the children in this study were below the third percentile for weight suggesting an association between cryptosporidiosis and failure to thrive , as described in other centres . |
| 16 | I spoke to many of the soldiers , they were of the 72nd Highland , and they answered to a man that they detested the business . |
| 17 | Seven children who were above the third percentile had recently lost weight or were failing to thrive . |
| 18 | By the time they started ‘ I Guess it Does n't Matter Anymore ’ they were onto the last saucepan and the table was covered with clean , dry things . |
| 19 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 20 | A listener would like to hear from any ex-pupils of School Worksop who were in the fifth year between nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty eight , to join in a celebration marking the success of one its pupils . |
| 21 | Any ex-pupils of School Worksop , who were in the fifth year between nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty eight , to join in a celebration marking the success of one its pupils . |
| 22 | They were in the fifth field near a copse of native trees when the incident occurred . |
| 23 | She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale . |
| 24 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division . |
| 26 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 27 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 28 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 29 | In brief : Salha was directly related to five of the seven households whose girls were in the first cohort , and her acceptance of the headmaster 's plans was influential in persuading the mothers of the girls that they should agree . |
| 30 | Yeah he did , yeah , cos the girls were in the first class and he was in the nursery , yeah that 's right , yeah , and they . |