Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hunted in packs , and were individually from two to three metres long . |
| 2 | They placed it at 7,000 in early 1977 and were far from happy at the knowledge . |
| 3 | The stunt took eighteen months to set up , and was only for those with a strong head for heights . |
| 4 | Average household size fell from 2.91 in 1971 to 2.70 in 1981 and was down to 2.48 by 1988 , a fall of 15 per cent from 1971 . |
| 5 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |