Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover , Taylor J felt that J 's dyslexia was a ‘ disability ’ and thus was covered by the second definition of learning difficulty ( above ) . |
2 | A higher income still was achieved in the first four years of Elizabeth , but the feudal revenue then fell back to between £12,000 and £14,000 per annum until 1598 , when an upward movement began once more . |
3 | Andy Murdoch 's fine penalty save from Mark Hateley was a bitter pill for the home support to swallow but worse was to come in the 65th minute . |
4 | Some two hundred years after Descartes had formulated his concept of mechanical laws , a proven capacity to discover the laws of nature and to express them mathematically was taken by the first systematic historian of science , William Whewell , as evidence of an affinity between human and the divine mind . |
5 | The dramatic story of the royal rescue has always attracted visitors , and an attempt to ‘ restore ’ the house to its appearance when Charles was here was made in the 19th century in deference to this appeal . |
6 | The original mill here was built in the eleventh century . |
7 | At Goslar , in the region of the Harz Mountains , the Kaiserpfalz here was restored in the nineteenth century on its original pattern , 1132 . |
8 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
9 | That was bad enough ; but worse yet was to come in the third stage . |