Example sentences of "it [was/were] [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beautifully displayed on it were two twists of marinated salmon , sprigs of red and green lettuce and watercress , slices of passion fruit , two slices of filet of hare , a sprig of broccoli , two crumbed and fried mushrooms in a pale-gold sauce which I guessed to be pan juices , reduced and bodied out with cream . |
| 2 | Mixed in it were 30 kg of TCDD . |
| 3 | It was twelve weeks of torment before the player was informed the charges were to be dropped . |
| 4 | It was nine miles of single track with five intermediate stations . |
| 5 | People had been staging revolutions without a great deal of success over the years and it was seventy percent of the people who were disadvantaged was n't it ? |
| 6 | It 's basically offering people erm rather than becoming members they can become a supporter for five pounds a year of the Green Party for which they get three shortened up beat newsletters and this week it was two sides of A four . |
| 7 | I suppose it was one way of ensuring that staff returned to the fold , but I 'm not so sure that it was a good idea as far as the staff was concerned . |
| 8 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 9 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 10 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 11 | It was one way of getting down , he supposed . |
| 12 | It was one way of getting money . |
| 13 | True , it was one way of keeping Dana from London and a meeting with Berenice , but why go to such lengths ? |
| 14 | It was one way of having her say . |
| 15 | It was one result of her ‘ revenge ’ that both she and Lisa had failed to predict . |
| 16 | This time it was one shoe of an old pair . |
| 17 | ‘ It was one hell of a job , then , ’ Frank said , remembering the agony of the early days . |
| 18 | Despite everything it was one hell of a shock . |
| 19 | ‘ It was one hell of a bang , ’ an ambulanceman said yesterday . |
| 20 | It was one hell of a thing to come to terms with . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ When we first met and you spoke about having lunch with Simon , it was one hell of a shock . |
| 22 | It was one moment of delight in the general hurly-burly but , with only three minutes left , there was another moment of controversy . |
| 23 | It was six sheets of foolscap , thumb-typed . |
| 24 | It was eight hours of solid drinking which lost me my charity , my film company , my reputation and my dignity . |
| 25 | They did n't give me methadone , they just gave me I think it was 30 milligrams of Librium and two sleepers of a night time … . |
| 26 | If it was 3 lb of beef per head per day in 1990 , it was 4 lb in 1989 . |
| 27 | Some say it was seven tons of meat in a thick black hide |
| 28 | For the yards owner , it was 25 years of work up in smoke . |