Example sentences of "it was [num] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that the cratering rate today ( see section 8.1 ) is about 3 times what it was 850 Ma ago , and Figure 6.9 is brought up to today on this basis . |
| 3 | " I believe it was one Arthur Pascoe , ma'am . |
| 4 | But with 6ft 4ins Stich firing on all cylinders , and Chang looking jaded it was one Goliath too many for the brave American . |
| 5 | It was 13 October 1964 and the 100th general congregation . |
| 6 | It was 5 November 1964 , and the 115th general congregation . |
| 7 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 8 | Mary said it was 20 June because that was the night before the solstice , the longest day , and Rufus said it was the 24th and he , Adam , said it was the 23rd because that was the eve of the 24th which was Midsummer day . |
| 9 | It was 31 January 1988 , Super Bowl Sunday , the last day of the holding period for the Eddie Aikau . |
| 10 | It was 29 May 1657 . |
| 11 | It was 29 April . |
| 12 | The day came — it was 19 October 1987 — and my minder/presenter and his young lady assistant arrived . |
| 13 | It was 15 September 1964 , and the 80th general congregation . |
| 14 | But it was 6 September before all the Allied left-wing armies could turn about and launch a full-scale attack on the invaders . |
| 15 | It was 12 October . |
| 16 | It was 3 March 1928 , in the middle of Ramsey 's bad time . |
| 17 | It was DCI Hampton . |
| 18 | It was 21 May 1987 . |
| 19 | It was 25 October , nineteen days since Simon Cormack had been kidnapped and seventeen since Zack 's first call to the Kensington apartment . |
| 20 | He 'd never forget his first experience of Waimea : ‘ It was 25 March 1974 — a late spring swell , clean and perfect . |