Example sentences of "were in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 They were in the fifth field near a copse of native trees when the incident occurred .
2 A listener would like to hear from any ex-pupils of School Worksop who were in the fifth year between nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty eight , to join in a celebration marking the success of one its pupils .
3 Any ex-pupils of School Worksop , who were in the fifth year between nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty eight , to join in a celebration marking the success of one its pupils .
4 Women with children were in the first buses .
5 In brief : Salha was directly related to five of the seven households whose girls were in the first cohort , and her acceptance of the headmaster 's plans was influential in persuading the mothers of the girls that they should agree .
6 We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’
7 ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five .
8 ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division .
9 They were in the first place monotheists .
10 Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall .
11 The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed .
12 She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale .
13 This is how they were in the first few games of the season .
14 Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act .
15 We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 .
16 Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ?
17 Yeah he did , yeah , cos the girls were in the first class and he was in the nursery , yeah that 's right , yeah , and they .
18 I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time .
19 Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division .
20 Remarkably , three of the top five gates were in the Second Division — at Halifax , Hull KR and Ryedale York , where 5,000 watched the inaugural game at the club 's swish new stadium in the suburbs .
21 He struggled to make the first team when we were in the second , and went on loan to a couple of spanish clubs , then was sold to some crap side for next to nothing .
22 ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division .
23 There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end .
24 Course when Walsall were promoted , they had n't got into the European systems then it was very much the old five forwards three halfbacks two fullbacks and a goalkeeper in those days , the , the laundry was there , in those days when they were in the second division .
25 Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and
26 They always get one hundred per cent from us , because they were there supporting us when we were in the Second Division .
27 No doubt conditions today are far more egalitarian than they were in the nineteenth century , but then only a privileged few had the vote .
28 We were in the 1st Div … it was the first game of the new season , and we were playing the newly promoted Swansea away .
29 Marc Bloch showed that on two estates in the heart of northern France there were in the ninth century only twenty-five servi ( slaves or serfs ) out of 278 householders ; whereas at the end of the twelfth century all but a handful of the population of these villages were serfs ; none slaves .
30 Though Christie 's says that the Vung Tau sale is lotted to encourage private buyers , with sets of between five and nine matching vases offered per lot ( and designed to be shown , as they were in the 17th century , massed together on a chimneypiece or high shelf ) , Cohen believes buying is more easily done through a dealer .
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