Example sentences of "it was five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was five minutes to eight when Yanto cycled over the low swing bridge on to the wharfs of Sharpness Docks . |
| 3 | Annie Templeman had been at the black and white ball for five minutes , and it was five minutes too long . |
| 4 | Then , remembering it was five minutes past tot time , he ran down the ladder to the well deck , and away to the spare-crew mess . |
| 5 | It was five minutes before he saw what he wanted . |
| 6 | It was five minutes before he stopped yelling , before he started to absorb the terrible pain that burnt through his flesh . |
| 7 | The Scotsman replied : ‘ Easy , it was five minutes slow ! ’ |
| 8 | The Scotsman replied : ‘ Easy , it was five minutes slow ! ’ |
| 9 | The Scotsman replied : ‘ Easy , it was five minutes slow ! ’ |
| 10 | On the Queensferry bypass , on the interchange there it was five hours . |
| 11 | When I started first it was five pounds a year . |
| 12 | Federal and Capital we er , is , is a small business er , but highly profitable and er , it 's a subscription business so that the cash comes in advance and er , the er , the only criticism I have of Federal and Capital is that it 's , it , it , it , it would be nice if it was five times bigger than it is . |
| 13 | It was five races into the championship before it was discovered Jonny had been driving with a broken chassis , which made it impossible to get his car to handle properly . |
| 14 | It was five months since he had last seen her , since he had last been in Athens . |
| 15 | The motion was moved by the Rev Canon John Dale ( Worcester ) who said it was five years since the request for legislation on women priests was made . |
| 16 | It was five years , and thirteen full years after the passing of the Act , before the same opportunity could be extended to the girls . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're always looking for people of the right calibre , although today , with the downturn in levels of activity , it 's harder to get into corporate finance than it was five years ago , ’ he warns . |
| 18 | It was five years before the roofleaf became plentiful again . |
| 19 | While the consultant 's review shows that all countries are planning to increase their investment in these competitive edge systems over the next five years , the UK 's present level of spending ( as a percentage of the total ) is behind that in the US and Japan , as it was five years ago . |
| 20 | This month 's increase in the numbers unemployed for a year or more is certainly extremely unwelcome , but the long-term unemployment level is about half what it was five years ago and long-term unemployment among 18 to 24-year-olds is also half that level . |
| 21 | It was five years before he made another series , but in 1974 and 1975 he recorded Christmas specials . |
| 22 | It was five years ago but I believe his was he sounded fairly young I 'd say about in his twenties . |
| 23 | It was five weeks before she would regularly go for the chick along the line , and even then she 'd often wait for up to ten minutes to make up her mind . |