Example sentences of "it was [num] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |
| 2 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |
| 3 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 4 | Bolivia is no longer the tremendously cheap country it was five or six years ago , and anything organised expressly for foreign travellers costs almost what it would in Europe . |
| 5 | It was five or six storeys high , employed three hundred men , and was driven by the water-power of the river Derwent . |
| 6 | ‘ See you later , ’ he 'd say , and often it was five or six hours later . |
| 7 | It was five or ten minutes before they and the studio audience could control themselves . |
| 8 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 9 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 10 | Similarly , David Hackett Fischer maintains that growing old ‘ is an experience profoundly different today from what it was two or three centuries ago ’ , although the only explanation he can offer is one grounded in modernization theory . |
| 11 | This general theme is perhaps even more relevant now to the field of special educational needs than it was two or three years ago when the initial decision about the conference topic was made . |
| 12 | It was n't er , it was n't a very long one was it , it was two or three months was it ? |
| 13 | ‘ It was two or three minutes before he collapsed . |
| 14 | Coun Ken Walker ( Lib Dem ) said : ‘ The state of the river is better than it was two or three years ago but I would like to see more resources spent on the worst sections ; in the town centre . |
| 15 | Actually , it was one and thirty years ago , but according to Tennyson 's recent biographer , Robert Bernard Martin , the poet deliberately put euphony before mere factuality . |
| 16 | From Oxford , West and Abingdon it was one and four . |
| 17 | Fears were also expressed by some passengers that the tunnel might collapse while they were travelling through it or that they might suffocate from the lack of air because it was one and three quarter miles long ! |
| 18 | It was one and three an hour . |
| 19 | And it was six and eight pence for a set of shoes on a |
| 20 | ‘ I thought it was six or seven inches over the line , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I was very much his son and it was six or seven weeks before I learned that the self-confidence he 'd given me , genetically and by example , to other people was mere boasting . |
| 22 | Although the standard of management has been variable , it is much better than it was 10 or 15 years ago as a result of fiercer competition and a great deal of fall-out . |
| 23 | It was 1974 before that particular form of discrimination was removed by a new Adoption Act . |
| 24 | Er one case I know he , he 's so well known amongst the old lads er he used to give you so many sums to do each day and I think it was four or five long division . |
| 25 | And it was hundred and ten if you did it over the two six |
| 26 | It was 13 and 14 March before Clydebank , Dalmuir , and Yoker felt the full force of the German terror-attacks . |
| 27 | It was 1750 before actual theatrical entertainments began to be held , something between musical comedy and tragical farcical comedy , a potage of as many as 20 ‘ plays ’ in the same programme based on mythical and romantic themes . |
| 28 | Medved is guilty of some distinctly muddled thinking on pop , which is less political than it was 20 or 30 years ago when Alice Cooper sang about school being blown to pieces . |
| 29 | Which is not as nasty as it was ten or fifteen years ago , but it 's still a lot of money if you come into this bracket . |
| 30 | It was ten or twelve feet higher than the square , surrounded by a stone wall with a granite coping and surmounted by a chain-wire fence to stop the children scrambling up and falling over . |