Example sentences of "were [verb] in the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hall 's own linen was sold and the proceeds used to purchase coin operated laundry facilities which were situated in the second floor utility room . |
| 2 | The bureau said that despite flooding the summer grain harvest was down by only 1.8 per cent , although " severe " economic losses were expected in the second half . |
| 3 | A Wembley spectator , Busby thought Sunderland were outclassed in the second half but not disgraced . |
| 4 | Measures taken at the half year have cut the financing requirement , and small debt repayments were made in the second half . |
| 5 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 6 | Motivations were measured in the second fortnight of the campaign , but the question wording was not time-specific ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 7 | ATs and PS for maths and science were introduced in the second year of key stage 3 , and those for design and technology in the first year of key stages 1–3 . |
| 8 | I think all goals were scored in the second half . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Dundela and Donegal Celtic were paired in the second round of the Steel and Sons Cup when the draw was made on Monday evening . |
| 10 | No costs were awarded in the second Guinness trial . |
| 11 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 12 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 13 | League leaders South scraped the bonus point at where the minimum requirement of 20 overs were bowled in the second innings . |
| 14 | The same themes were reechoed in the second decade of the sixteenth century , when the government again began to take an interest in restraining enclosure , and attempted , sometimes successfully , to restore land from pasture to tillage . |
| 15 | Obligingly , four England wickets were captured in the second session , and the rest before close of play , to put the tourists into line with their cricket manager 's plan . |
| 16 | Although Edinburgh , for whom captain and scrum-half Johnnie Crombie had an outstanding game , were losing only 7-0 at the interval , they were swamped in the second half as Durham ran in five tries and kicked four conversions and a penalty . |