Example sentences of "that it was [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 2 | Astute readers might also have found a small note , placed in the magazine 's gossip column , referring to the front page story and reminding readers that it was 1 April — placed there by Birbeck as a precautionary measure . |
| 3 | You mentioned er , earlier about yo , the fact that you were surprised that it was fifteen year olds , and that was quite young |
| 4 | Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it . |
| 5 | Position reports transmitted from the aircraft indicate that it was one minute ahead of flight plan times at 30°W longitude , one minute behind flight plan at 40°W longitude , and seven minutes behind flight plan at 50°W longitude . |
| 6 | cos I would always thought Marks were that it was one day |
| 7 | In the following days , however , the Argentinian Foreign Ministry , anxious not to impair the improved climate of relations with the UK [ for 1990 restoration of diplomatic relations see p. 37245 ] , toned down Menem 's proposal for arbitration , suggesting that it was one option among several . |
| 8 | What she did n't find out until too late was that it was one thing to jump a gap but quite another to stay put on the landing stone when the surface was wet and slippery . |
| 9 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 10 | you , you could not work out that it was one pound fifty nine , you could , you could assume that it was a proportion of that six pound thirty five |
| 11 | Now that it was three years since Mama had died , people did . |
| 12 | She performed her task so well that it was twenty minutes before she brought him to a thundering climax . |
| 13 | The signpost outside the post office told her that it was ten miles to Abbotsfield and twenty-five to Bristol . |