Example sentences of "[was/were] be [vb pp] each [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the mid 1930s , up to a quarter of a million dolphins were being killed each year by Turkish , Bulgarian , Romanian , and Russian hunters . |
| 2 | Although the remoteness of the region makes accurate information hard to come by , in 1979 , even before the main expansion of the industry , an estimated 4100 dolphins and porpoises were being killed each year for bait . |
| 3 | In 1985 , a report to the IWC Scientific Committee revealed that more than 40,000 dolphins were being killed each year as a result of incidental catches in set-nets around Sri Lankan coasts . |
| 4 | Around four million barrels ( 660,000 tonnes ) of oil were being burned each day in March 1991 , nearly three times the pre-war Kuwait output and almost 10 per cent of the world 's daily ration . |
| 5 | When in London , he stayed with the Fabers ; the capital was being bombed each night through the last months of 1940 , but their house in Hampstead had the additional advantage of a reinforced basement shelter . |
| 6 | In May-October 1905 , when expenditure of this kind was at its height , 200,000 francs of Russian money was being paid each month to about fifty French newspapers , periodicals and press agencies , some of them important opinion-formers — Le Figaro , Le Temps , Le Petit Parisien and the Havas agency . |