Example sentences of "[num] [was/were] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |
| 2 | This represented 6.8 per cent of the population , although 10,000,000 out of the total population of 56,100,000 were of recent foreign origin . |
| 3 | In 1989 , 780,000 children under 5 were receiving day care in the United Kingdom , only 34,000 of them in state day nurseries ( 50,000 were in private nurseries and the remainder with playgroups and child minders ) . |
| 4 | Of the Survey 's staff in Scotland , 12 were on active military service , Bailey and Richey being decorated for bravery . |
| 5 | Nearly a quarter of the forty were in unskilled factory jobs and over a third have done typing or general office work . |
| 6 | The meeting of the Odiham Society on 5 August 1790 was of crucial significance . |
| 7 | In fact , both 53 and 54 covered these coaches : the original 53 was for six-wheeled versions and 54 for four-wheeled versions altered from the original six . |
| 8 | The fact that Holding ( who had 6 for 65 in the first innings ) and Julien conceded four an over from 34 overs and the spinners only just over two an over from 105 was of less significance than the spinners ' inability to bowl batsmen out . |
| 9 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 10 | A notice in accordance with regulation 7 of the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 was on 1 September 1987 served on the respondent . |
| 11 | A further 1,770,000 were on short-time work , i.e. in most cases not working . ) |
| 12 | By 1294 five-sixths of the castles within the duchy of Aquitaine were held by the nobility : thus , of 130 fortresses in the Agenais , only six were in ducal hands . |
| 13 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 14 | By 1913 there were 8,206 children over three in workhouses ( compared with 11,072 in 1906 ) ; 70,676 were in voluntary institutions in 1913 , compared with 58,991 in 1906 . |
| 15 | By 1981 , the numbers of students had grown considerably to 377,000 : of these 209,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including only 27,000 on initial teacher training , and 168,000 on part-time courses . |
| 16 | As none of the small libraries with establishments under 100 were in this group , this represents 43% of the libraries with establishments over 100 . |
| 17 | Small in comparison to major fairs such as Basel , it is however the leading Asian fair and this year included ninety-one galleries of which fifty-nine were from outside Japan ( nine less foreign galleries than in 1992 ) . |
| 18 | Edward III was in that position until the birth of Edward of Woodstock in June 1330 . |
| 19 | Sir Denys had little doubt that the coming months seem set to be as difficult as 1991 was for most countries , ‘ It would not be prudent at this stage to attempt to predict when recovery might begin ’ , he said , ‘ But when it comes , it is very likely to be gradual ’ . |
| 20 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 21 | The Science Citation Index also indicates that the outside world has not been developing ideas form German scientists : 2 per cent of citations in 1975 were for German papers compared with 4 per cent for the UK and 3 per cent from Japan . |
| 22 | Twenty had a recent diagnosis and were untreated and 35 were in clinical , biochemical , and histological remission after more than one year of gluten free diet . |
| 23 | The patrician planners of the late 1940s were in some retreat a decade later . |
| 24 | There were three failures ( 30% ) in the Crohn 's group ( all three were for pelvic sepsis and fistula ) and a further three failures ( 30% ) in the indeterminate colitis group ( one for fistula , one for recurrent pouchitis , and one because of incapacitating diarrhoea ) compared with nine failures ( 15% ) in the ulcerative colitis patients ( six for ischaemia , two for recurrent pouchitis , and one for poor functional results ) ( relative risk 2.03 ( 96% CI 0.81 to 5.10 ) ) . |
| 25 | By detecting the integrated hepatitis B virus DNA in hepatocellular carcinoma genome , Chen et al reported five pairs of primary and recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma ; two showing the same clonal origin , while the other three were of different clonalities . |
| 26 | Two routes entered the area via northern Namibia by agreement with the Namibian government and the other three were from government-controlled ports . |
| 27 | Three were from weekly hospital and public health laboratory reports , and two more from clinical reports from venereologists and dermatologists . |
| 28 | The long running teachers ' dispute which began in November 1984 was to some extent a response to the way the education service had been handled by three successive governments . |
| 29 | The year 1975 was in all respects better for the Hesketh team . |
| 30 | Sara 's continued presence in the Lime Street cottage meant that he would inevitably return to Stowey , however briefly ; but his departure in the late summer of 1798 was in most senses final . |