Example sentences of "[was/were] used [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a million gasifier units , usually powering road vehicles , were used during the Second World War . |
| 2 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 3 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 4 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 5 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 6 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 7 | You are right to note that two of your photos were used in the last magazine . |
| 8 | Furthermore , staining could not be observed when the solution of purified primary antibody absorbed with PT-gliadin was used as the first layer ( figure not shown ) . |
| 9 | It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time . |
| 10 | The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th . |
| 11 | Thereafter , possibly because the magazine began to appear more irregularly , Minton produced one further design , showing pages of manuscript fluttering down between buildings , and which was used for the next seven issues . |
| 12 | The only conclusion I can draw is that the two-pack AC lacquer that was used on the first table was something that I will not use again on dark timber if I want to bring out the full colour of the wood . |
| 13 | As with a number of shafted weapons , it was used from the eleventh to the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | This was two years before the Linnaean system of classification was used in the seventh edition of the Dictionary ( 1756–59 ) and , probably , Miller 's first public acknowledgment of it . |
| 15 | Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century , it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa , perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon . |