Example sentences of "it was [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 2 | Er , you like the milkman the milkman I mean absolutely stupid I thought because he kept putting milk up it was thirty P when we went there first |
| 3 | Pam reckons it was thirty pounds . |
| 4 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 5 | Er it were in paper about this er this woman she 'd gone to the hospital and she must have been there longer than she thought , and so she 'd got her car clamped and it was thirty pound to have it off but |
| 6 | Thank you ‘ Small Town Ireland ’ for showing that bigotry towards people who choose to be different in , either sexual inclination or otherwise , is still alive and kicking in your bastion of the caring Catholic Church today , as it was thirty years ago . |
| 7 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 8 | Well , it was thirty years ago ; |
| 9 | This aspect of a head 's management is better understood now than it was thirty years ago . |
| 10 | And today it 's as hard to believe it happened as it was thirty years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 12 | or though you could just like , if you got something for say ten ninety nine and it was fifteen pounds and you got something else as well |
| 13 | It was fifteen feet , twenty feet high . |
| 14 | You mentioned er , earlier about yo , the fact that you were surprised that it was fifteen year olds , and that was quite young |
| 15 | It was fifteen pound new I want a fiver for it . |
| 16 | ELEANOR apart , for the rest of the King 's subjects the Treaty of Montlouis meant , by and large , a return to the status quo as it was fifteen days before the outbreak of war . |
| 17 | It was fifteen days before Isambard 's inconspicuous agents in Pool and about the hospitable courtyard of Strata Marcella picked up traces of the Welsh marauders . |
| 18 | It should be emphasised that this is an extreme version of the sentence-grammarian 's view and one which is found less frequently , in contemporary linguistics , than it was fifteen years ago . |
| 19 | It was fifteen miles further away , in a village the other side of Weatherbury . |
| 20 | It was fifteen miles each way . |
| 21 | If it was 3 lb of beef per head per day in 1990 , it was 4 lb in 1989 . |
| 22 | It was 4 oz here , 3 oz there , 2 oz to the head — I am sure most embalmers will understand , but not all funeral directors . |
| 23 | It was a shame to wake the boy , but it was twelve hours now since he had eaten . |
| 24 | It was twelve weeks of torment before the player was informed the charges were to be dropped . |
| 25 | But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap |
| 26 | It was 17 days since he had last locked the door of his office , turned down the lights , and unscrewed the cap of his walking stick , and heard Dr Tariq and Professor Khan discuss a series of meetings in Europe . |
| 27 | It was 1.57 children per woman in 1989 , well below the 2.1 that is needed to prevent the population from eventually declining . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I read the hands of the clock wrongly , thought it was 5.10 , and awoke with a jump , believing it was five minutes before the start of the marathon . |
| 30 | It was five minutes to eight when Yanto cycled over the low swing bridge on to the wharfs of Sharpness Docks . |