Example sentences of "was [num] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The known number of HIV positive cases was 11,218 at the end of September , 424 more than the cumulative total at the end of the previous quarter . |
| 2 | Er I was forty at the time so I was five |
| 3 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his brief spell at the Prenton Park club . |
| 4 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his spell at Prenton . |
| 5 | I was twenty-one at the time and the whole experience gave me a lot of confidence . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Fagan , who was 30 at the time , was not prosecuted for the trespass after the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled there was no evidence that the trespass was a criminal offence . |
| 7 | Moira was 12 at the time . |
| 8 | Moira was 12 at the time . |
| 9 | He also succeeded a pope , Celestine III , who was 85 at the time of his election and therefore over ninety at the time of his death . |
| 10 | He said that where total headcount was 126,000 at the end of fiscal year 1989 , over the last two years , the company has added 11,000 employees , primarily through acquisitions while reducing overall headcount so that at June 30 , headcount was 113,800 , for a total reduction of more than 23,000 since 1989 . |
| 11 | But I was forty-six at the time ! |
| 12 | ‘ I was in a competition and my daughter — who was three at the time — was watching . |
| 13 | Schneerson was 90 at the beginning of April . |
| 14 | I was fourteen at the time , so was she ; she sent me a signed photograph which I keep in the breast pocket of my school blazer until both photograph and blazer fell apart . |
| 15 | I was sixteen at the time . |
| 16 | I was ten at the time and attending Sir Robert Hitchams Primary School . |
| 17 | ‘ Naylor was ten at the time , was n't he ? ’ |
| 18 | Louis XIV , who was 25 at the time , danced two roles a village maiden and a gypsy . |
| 19 | Out of 10 who said their style was 9,9 at the beginning of the week , only one is likely to be able to say that at the end , affirms Penfold with relish . |
| 20 | I was twelve at the time . ’ |
| 21 | Anna was 38 at the time , a single parent with an 11-year-old daughter . |
| 22 | This programme was successfully carried through by Erwin Schrödinger and his results published early in 1926 , a classic counter-example to the assertion that distinguished theoretical physicists do their best work before they are 25 ( Schrödinger was 38 at the time ) . |
| 23 | I was fifteen at the time , and we were on holiday in the mountains . |
| 24 | Because Pliny the Elder had been so widely-esteemed , the historian Tacitus was anxious to find out more about the circumstances of his death , and about the eruption in general , so he asked Pliny 's nephew , who was seventeen at the time and survived the eruption , to provide him with details of what had happened . |
| 25 | She was 27 at the time and not residing with her parents . |
| 26 | I was nine at the time of the wedding and you just could not imagine how foolish I felt , dressed as a bride in all her finery , standing beside a six-year-old and with hundreds of people looking on . |
| 27 | The precocious actress , who was 16 at the time , played a young runaway whom Pitt 's character beats up , turns into a junkie and sells for sex . |
| 28 | She was 16 at the time , but later succeeded in qualifying as a lawyer . |
| 29 | ( 22 November 1780 ) The tenor , Anton Raaff , who was singing the title role , caused difficulties for different reasons — he was 65 at the time and his voice was past its best : |
| 30 | Miss Miller , who was 65 at the time of her death but had a mental age of two , died on November 7 last year from head injuries . |