Example sentences of "it [was/were] [num] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one . |
| 2 | Already , it was ten minutes past their deadline and he knew it . |
| 3 | It crept forward , slowly building up speed , and when it was twenty yards behind them the driver pressed the accelerator to the floor . |
| 4 | When Delia Sutherland did at last ring it was three weeks after their meeting and he was proved right . |
| 5 | This she was able to do , but the evaluators found that many of the books had never been opened and that most of them bore no issue dates , even though it was three years since their acquisition . |