Example sentences of "was [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 2 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 3 | Ten years later Richard was farming 12 acres in Allerthorpe and his family had grown to seven children ; his parents were now living alone on another smallholding of 14 acres . |
| 4 | At the height of the troubles the hospital was seeing 100 cases of major trauma a day . |
| 5 | Anyhow … the feeling in the water continued to indicate the away win , and the clincher ( for me ) was seeing 2 magpies sitting on a street light on the way . |
| 6 | ‘ The club was struggling 18 months later and players were in a cushy position . |
| 7 | Its ornate Town Hall was completed in 1858 and was ceremonially opened by Queen Victoria herself , while the oval , glass-domed Corn Exchange was erected three years later . |
| 8 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 9 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 10 | The vote was widely seen as a referendum on the LDP 's controversial UN Peace Co-operation Bill , which was withdrawn three days later . |
| 11 | Three failed to comply with the protocol restrictions ; one patient continued to use H 2 receptor antagonists until she was withdrawn three days after entry and another was unable to keep his alcohol consumption below 40 U/week ; a third ( asymptomatic ) patient withdrew her consent within a month of randomisation . |
| 12 | He may be the Henry Wilde who was the son of Horatio Wilde and his wife Hannah , and who was christened 17 February 1833 . |
| 13 | , Henry ( 1628–1704 ) , bookseller-publisher , was born in Carshalton , Surrey , the son of John Herringman , yeoman , and was christened 14 March 1628 at the Carshalton parish church . |
| 14 | Just three years ago , Ryton was producing 116,500 cars . |
| 15 | It was , however , a losing battle : by the turn of the century the Solvay process was producing six times as much soda as the Leblanc . |
| 16 | The mechanical ‘ skin ’ on this well had increased to greater than 100 after its workover and completion , which indicated that although the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day it could be many times more productive . |
| 17 | The division was formed two years ago from a number of subsidiaries . |
| 18 | When the Quoc Dan Dang was formed two years ago we joined secretly and agreed to continue spying on Devraux . |
| 19 | The Catering Guild , a Division of the TM Group , Europe 's largest independent refreshment vending company , was formed four years ago with a view to providing a professional catering service combined with a fresh approach to the provision of staff meals . |
| 20 | The Friend Teesside group was formed four years ago to provide a counselling and advice service and last year received 597 calls for help . |
| 21 | The institute was formed six years ago as a result of the amalgamation of the Macaulay Institute of Soil Research and the Hill Farming Research Organisation . |
| 22 | When the Green party was formed 20 years ago , many treated it as a political joke and dismissed its members as a bunch of idealistic hippies . |
| 23 | The Nemo Brass Quintet was formed three years when all its members were students at the Royal Northern College of Music , Manchester . |
| 24 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 25 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 26 | The typical known user had been smoking heroin daily for about one to three years , having started the habit around the age of 16–18 , and was using 0.25–0.5 gram of heroin per day ( costing between 20 and 35 ) at the time of agency contact . |
| 27 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 28 | His interest in tidal rivers began with work on the River Boyne and culminated in 1839 with re-employment in his native country as engineer to the Clyde River Trust , a post from which he was dismissed six years later after criticizing the trustees in a Glasgow newspaper . |
| 29 | Further north in Staffordshire the ancient market town of Lichfield founded in 1149 on the line of one of the main London to Chester roads , declined into cosy respectability as the new Holyhead road was diverted sixteen miles to the south . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , during protests yesterday by farmers and fishermen , a British ferry was diverted 125 miles to Cherbourg after 500 Breton fishermen occupied the quayside railhead at Roscoff . |