Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of crates of beer were stacked against three of the whitewashed walls but the fourth , and longest , wall was hidden behind rows of wooden racks lined with bottles of both local and imported wines . |
| 2 | Cartridge boxes were stacked in two layers . |
| 3 | The two other local mosaics , the Keynsham Villa mosaics , which were excavated in 1924 and last exhibited about three years ago , will also be on display . |
| 4 | These were developed between 1965 and 1970 , mainly by Roger Penrose and myself . |
| 5 | Company MBA and Diploma distance learning programmes were developed in 1986 and have an impressive client list including Shell , BICC and Pedigree Petfoods . |
| 6 | After five minutes the decision was made for them : they were jumped by six D-Vs which came dropping out of a stretch of dirty cloud . |
| 7 | School and teacher 's house were erected in 1849 . |
| 8 | Church and manse were erected in 1860 , and a school soon afterwards . |
| 9 | The first engines to be used in Scotland were erected in 1719 and 1720 , while in 1722 the first engine outside Britain was built in Hungary . |
| 10 | The first such stations were erected in 1978 across the Allan Hills concentration area . |
| 11 | Thus , relative risks were calculated on 130 patients . |
| 12 | Oesophageal body amplitudes were calculated at 5 ( distal ) , 10 ( middle ) , and 15 ( proximal ) cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter as the mean of 10 consecutive readings . |
| 13 | Coefficient of variation and root mean square of successive differences were calculated for 100 R-R intervals free of artefacts . |
| 14 | During the subsequent forty years , witchcraft prosecutions reached unprecedented heights ; in Essex , where there was an unusually high incidence of trials , as many as 163 women were indicted between 1560 and 1600 , with roughly half of them being convicted and burnt . |
| 15 | After two hours , Mitchum , Ford , Leeds and Vicki Evans were indicted on two counts : possession of marijuana and conspiracy to violate the State Narcotics Act . |
| 16 | Several runpasts were arranged with 9466 and the ACE to recreate a GWR main line and branch line flavour . |
| 17 | The jury at the trial heard that House 's sessions with the two girls were arranged by nineteen year old Natalie Meadows who introduced them to prostitution . |
| 18 | On the first day of the project , pupils were arranged in six groups of about seven pupils , usually five from Russells Hall and two from Sutton . |
| 19 | So excavations were arranged in 1960 and 1961 with the school students . |
| 20 | A series of screenings were arranged in 1912 to ‘ demonstrate the high qualities of the British film ’ , and they proved rather the opposite . |
| 21 | By the time of the 1841 census the three sections of Fisher Row were inhabited by one large kin-group . |
| 22 | In the 1930s , the Supreme Court began to widen its interpretation of free speech to include writings and films of little or no artistic merit , provided they did not include ‘ licentious ’ speech , the forms of which were listed in 1942 as libel , slander , insulting or ‘ fighting ’ words , and obscenity , all of which were excluded from First Amendment protection . |
| 23 | Large numbers of these settlements were listed in 1086 in Domesday Book and it was assumed , therefore , that they represented the primary Saxon settlement over much of England . |
| 24 | What if the Prime Minister were assassinated at five past nine , in time for a satellite station 's nine o'clock news , but 55 minutes before News at Ten ? |
| 25 | Share salesmen who were sacked from one firm were sometimes made welcome at another sometimes not . |
| 26 | According to a report submitted to the Commission in August , a total of 430 judges and lawyers , of whom 67 were killed , were persecuted in 45 countries between July 1989 and June 1990 . |
| 27 | They were plucked by two thirds to little more than £2 million . |
| 28 | The sudden cold snap meant the RAC were inundated with 3,000 call-outs in one hour — a 50 per cent increase on a normal Monday morning . |
| 29 | Buildings were completed between 1 January 1986 and 31 December 1989 . |
| 30 | Parental interviews were completed in 393 ( 81% ) cases and 1592 ( 88% ) controls . |