Example sentences of "[was/were] it [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could not be three days since he had been left in the dark ; was it even three hours ? |
| 2 | Was it only five months ago we were all talking of promotion as a certainty ? |
| 3 | Because of some delay or other — line workings , Fabia rather thought — her train was late pulling into Mariánské Láznë , and it had gone twelve-thirty before she was ensconced in a taxi and on her way to the hotel which she had left — was it only three days ago ? |
| 4 | But erm I think last year we w Was it about three hours they went , last year ? |
| 5 | Was it really five years ago ? |
| 6 | We toasted the couple with champagne , sampled Jean-Paul 's cake ( not bad , considering how little time he had to make it ) and were allowed to throw confetti over the happy couple in their BBC function room — or was it really Grey Gables ? |