Example sentences of "[was/were] in [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Oceanis 320s were in their second year . |
| 2 | They were in their second week when a nurse came one morning to take Anna Beckett over to the infirmary to see a physician . |
| 3 | By 1962 , when the children were in their sixteenth year , the number still resident in Great Britain was 4,720 , of whom 3,626 ( 76.8 per cent ) were given further tests . |
| 4 | While they were in their last port of call , the Volunteer , Tommy even disappeared out of the pub followed by the barmaid , a pert , slightly plump girl called Rose . |
| 5 | All of the youths studied were in their last year of school , and all were going to leave at the minimum school leaving age ( Corrigan , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Reifenhauser K.G. Maschinenfabrik where discovery procedures were in their third year , the defendant having already answered two sets of interrogatories without taking any point about the applicability of the Convention . |
| 7 | Travellers and officials looked weary , and we perhaps more than most : we were in our sixth hour of confusion at the border . |
| 8 | Pamela was in her 4th year at St Hilda 's she was a devout member of the 7th Day Adventist Church and had planned to become a missionary in Japan after completing her University studies . |
| 9 | Mrs Johnston had been in the licensed trade for 10 years and was in her second spell at the Lion . |
| 10 | Mrs Johnston had been in the licensed trade for 10 years and was in her second spell at the Lion . |
| 11 | Lilian was in her second childhood and Harriet was expecting her second child , which she secretly despised . |
| 12 | Nancy was in her second week . |
| 13 | She had borne seven children and was in her fifty-first year in 1773 , when , on that September Sunday evening she entertained , and played hostess overnight , to her famous English visitor and his plump little annotator from Edinburgh , who wrote of Flora : ‘ She is a little woman , of a genteel appearance , and uncommonly mild and well-bred . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But that was in her first rage . |
| 15 | With regard to the second patient , recent correspondence with her general practitioner reveals that she initially developed intermittent leftsided headache and right hypoaesthesia without motor signs 3 years ago when she was in her first pregnancy . |
| 16 | ( In fact , by the time the book actually appeared , she was in her last year of school . ) |
| 17 | Georgina was in her last year as a law student at Cambridge and was joining the same set of chambers where Victoria herself had trained before her marriage . |
| 18 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 19 | However , it was in her fourth novel , A Wreath of Roses ( 1949 ) , that Elizabeth really arrived . |
| 20 | ‘ Mme Verard was in her hundredth year or more when I was fortunate enough to take in mine the hand that proved the loyal instrument of God 's will for this pagan place and its people . |
| 21 | At the time of which I 'm writing Alison was in her third year studying French and Russian at university and Sandy , having qualified in medicine , was doing a year 's postgraduate research in the States . |
| 22 | The battle for Stup and Azici , two Sarajevo suburbs on the western flank of the city 's vital airport road , was in its seventh day yesterday . |
| 23 | The strike was in its second week . |
| 24 | The pantomime was in its second week . |
| 25 | The meeting was in its third hour . |
| 26 | Forest 's only victory this season was in their first match — at home to Liverpool . |
| 27 | I told him I was in my first year and that my curriculum to date had been based around mastering the basics of Swahili , its grammar , basic vocabulary and syntax . |
| 28 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 29 | I was in my first year at Bedford . |
| 30 | Then a few days later we had opening night , and I was in my first tuxedo . |