Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] was [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In Derbyshire in 1776 eight hours was usual , save for exceptionally difficult ground when six were worked . |
| 2 | Another eight months was devoted to working out the spacing between characters . |
| 3 | On this meter 100 units would be relatively harmless , so today 's sunshine measuring up to 140 units was capable of burning . |
| 4 | Their APR for borrowing £3,500 over thirty-six months was 20.9 per cent . |
| 5 | The maximum number of residents in total in the 12 homes was 281 , the smallest home refusing to participate having six beds and the two largest 41 beds . |
| 6 | The gain in hearing for each treatment group at six and 12 months was similar to that shown in other comparable studies . |
| 7 | The actual return earned by this sector in the previous 12 months was 31 per cent . |
| 8 | Lord Reid thought that the multiplier of 12 years was low , but in that he differed from some of his brother judges who thought that it was high but that it should not be interfered with . |
| 9 | The mean age of the 43 patients was 82 . |
| 10 | In the first three quarters , manufacturing investment at constant 1985 prices was 15 per cent . |
| 11 | The Henley committee thought 30 seconds was sufficient for this particular stroke . |
| 12 | The information that you had extended the Division time by 10 minutes was available to those of us in the House , but not to those outside it . |
| 13 | An average of six values was available for estimation of a representative cell observation . |
| 14 | On indictment a prison sentence of not more than six months was possible together with a fine ; on summary conviction the maximum was three months . |
| 15 | On 1 July the value of the index was 2400.0 and the current price of a future for delivery in six months was 62 000 . |
| 16 | So Kitty Craven had been welcomed to Lady Mead , and the Dowager died happy in the knowledge that her daughter-in-law of six months was five months pregnant . |
| 17 | The probability of maintaining remission at six months was 0.67 after prednisolone , 0.28 after elemental diet , and at one year was 0.35 after prednisolone and 0.09 after elemental diet , p<0.05 . |
| 18 | The cumulative probability of maintaining remission at six months was 0.67 after treatment with prednisolone compared with 0.28 after treatment with elemental diet , and at one year the probability of maintaining remission was 0.35 in the prednisolone group and 0.09 in the elemental diet treated group ( p<0.05 ; log rank test ) . |
| 19 | Campaigning by the six candidates was intensive — with many public meetings and rallies , much press coverage , and a number of television and radio interviews and debates — but lacklustre . |
| 20 | Everyone within six feet was soaked . |
| 21 | An excess at 0–4 years was present in the high category when the rural oil categories were reconstituted on the basis of ranked prevalence of workers at Sullom Voe only ( 28 observed , 16.45 expected ; p<0.01 ) , at Flotta only ( 24 observed , expected 16.27 ; p<0.08 ) , and offshore ( 29 observed , expected 16.55 ; p<0.01 ) . |
| 22 | Last year one in seven of the country 's more than 12,000 banks was unprofitable , and one in four of the 49 biggest . |
| 23 | Fallow land rose by nearly 30 per cent to 37,000 hectares , of which just over 24,000 hectares was set-aside under the fallow option . |
| 24 | On a general revision , there might well be a case for extending that distance in view of the development of the central area which has taken place since the six miles was first established . |
| 25 | Malcolm Carmichael , known by his colleagues as ‘ Malky ’ , Douglas Reyburn 's works plumber for the past eight years was married to student nurse Lynne Elliot on the 10th September in St Lawrence Church , St Lawrence . |
| 26 | Apart from these preventive powers , section 5 of the 1936 Act also contained an important statutory offence which for fifty years was one of the central tools in the control of political assembly and public nonconformity . |
| 27 | The average loss in the 35 cases was 4.2 per cent . |
| 28 | When the pierced silver colander on three legs was full you could dig your hands into the beans and trickle their cool slipperiness between your fingers . |
| 29 | Mortality in the first three months was greater in the oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation group ( 20% v 1% ) but by two years the survival curves were the same and thereafter there was no difference in mortality . |
| 30 | What had happened over three months was that metal had leached into the system to dangerously high levels . |