Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 2 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 3 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 4 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 5 | But the , you see if you look in the , I have information off the Birmingham secretary , er Secretary 's secretary , she was involved , she even was imprisoned in Switzerland erm when the peace movement was on between the two wars , and that was when they were , I believe it was a German woman that er that was on , you know in the committee , but I 'll have to refer to the Caring and Sharing book . |
| 6 | By the time he was 22 he was down to a 9 handicap and was off 2 when he turned professional at the start of last year . |
| 7 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 8 | six months was down to the two three pounds under the weight I was when I started . |
| 9 | It 's all a far cry from June 1987 when Margaret Thatcher was returned to power with a handsome majority of 101 seats , although it was down on the 1983 win . |
| 10 | But while levels of so-called special wastes outside chemical sites for 1992 was down on the 1990 total , the 231,800 tonnes figure for 1992 was higher than the 213,700 tonnes figure in 1991 , because company closures had led to high waste disposals . |
| 11 | The 1989 growth in GDP of 9.2 per cent was down from the 11 per cent of the previous year but unemployment during the year was at a record low of 2.2 per cent . |
| 12 | First the figures , furniture retailing continues to be highly competitive so I am pleased to report that turnover for the twenty eight weeks was through to the twenty million five point five percent better than the same period in the previous year . |
| 13 | Now he was off to a nine p.m. to one a.m . |
| 14 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |
| 15 | But it surpised him to learn just how revolutionary it was back in the 1940's . |
| 16 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
| 17 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
| 18 | It was out of the 1909 Budget proposals that the crisis originally arose and it was already , at that time , well established that financial affairs were the peculiar province of the House of Commons . |
| 19 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
| 20 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 21 | The density of LSW was about during the 1960s , decreasing to in the early 1970s , and has since increased again reaching 1.5 =34.66 kgm -3 in 1986 4 and in 1992 ( J. R. N. Lazier , manuscript in preparation ) . |
| 22 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |