Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] five [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amplification wise , I use two Ampeg SVTs that were made for me in 1987 as part of the company 's ‘ Artist ’ series , and there were only five hundred of those made . |
| 2 | There were nearly five hundred scratches on the glass floor now . |
| 3 | It was approximately five fifteen , five twenty P M. |
| 4 | Er , no , there 's Joanna one of the girls I look after and er Rebecca who lives next door to me , erm some friends of ours years ago were going to , were thinking of buying it , it was about five thousand pounds then , so it shows ya how long ago it is |
| 5 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 6 | Point I was going to say was about five million pounds of that probably hit the the public the rest is lying in garages and |
| 7 | There was about five hundred pounds too much . |
| 8 | So if you think about the massive exodus from the south in the nineteen sixties and seventies erm I ca n't remember the precise figures but in the , at that time er sort of the equivalent of current social security cheque er in er if in , if in New York it was about five hundred dollars a month in Mississippi it was fifty dollars a month . |
| 9 | And now he 's , they 've got one and I think it was about five hundred pounds , they bought this one s but they managed to sell the other one for about a hundred and fifty they say . |
| 10 | I had my face done , and oh God , it was about five hundred pounds ! |
| 11 | It was now five twenty-five and he rubbed a hand over his unshaven face as he hung up and leaned back in his chair for a moment until the call from Pontino should come through . |