Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1960s , there were effectively only four companies in the British record industry , led by EMI and Decca . |
| 2 | The journey of the first group was fairly uneventful until they were within about sixty miles of the coast at Sirte , when the going became more rocky and uneven . |
| 3 | This indicates that broadly similar juice ascorbate concentrations were found in H pylori positive and negative subjects when plasma vitamin C concentrations were below about 30 µmol/l , but above this threshold H pylori eradicated patients tended to have higher juice concentrations . |
| 4 | They were all over fifty at least . |
| 5 | The modernisation of the Blackpool fleet by the acquisition of 116 streamlined cars between 1933 and 1939 , left the Standards looking decidedly old-fashioned , although they were only circa ten years old by then . |
| 6 | Well you were only here two gos ago . |
| 7 | They were only about nine to fifteen inch tall do you see . |
| 8 | ‘ There were only about 10 houses in the place , but there were so many people , you could n't believe it . |
| 9 | When I got to the classroom , I found there were only about six students in the class , and we chatted idly until the lecturer arrived . |
| 10 | There were only about six spectators . |
| 11 | There were only about 60 watching on the night , so it 's safe to say there was no crowd trouble ! ’ said who organised and captained the CMS side . |
| 12 | I could put it in it were only about ten inches long and I I made it and tapered it erm on a lathe , I put it my ear and side of casing and I could hear all what were going on inside . |
| 13 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 14 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
| 15 | There were only about 50 participants , which meant you got to know most of them . |
| 16 | Tests comparing the RISC with the VAX using similar C compilers show that on average RISC uses only two-thirds more instructions and RISC programs were only about 50 percent larger even though size optimisation was virtually ignored . |
| 17 | There were only about three bicycles in Carewstown and he recognised this one . |
| 18 | One morning when there were only about three powers cards to deal with , I was visited by Sister Phillips , a senior medical Sister . |
| 19 | As a footnote , when Jack Wannan was posted to Coningsby in 1953 to join 57 Squadron which had re-equipped with Canberras , where were only about three Washingtons left on the Station . |
| 20 | Mind you , there were only about three pole-vaulters in Scotland . ’ |
| 21 | They were only about forty miles behind the German lines and were thus much closer to the front line than was usual on their operations . |
| 22 | In 1975 there were only about forty university graduates in the country and the departure of the Portuguese settlers who had monopolized skilled and white-collar jobs left the economy in a state of collapse . |
| 23 | When we arrived there were only about 20 people in the audience and he was n't dressed in a dress . |
| 24 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 25 | And , you could n't blame her June cos they were only there two years . |
| 26 | In spite of determined efforts to rescue the breed , there were only perhaps 150 cows in 1983 but no pure bulls at all , so that the cows were put to Guernsey bulls . |
| 27 | There were only really two interesting questions about the election in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Sources say there were only really four companies behind COSE : Unix System Laboratories Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc : beyond that , says the source , Santa Cruz Operation Inc had to fight to get in and the Open Software Foundation was not a party to the negotiations ; but the real power behind the throne , although it does n't want it to appear that way , was of course Novell Inc . |
| 29 | Sources say there were only really four companies behind COSE : Unix System Labs , Hewlett-Packard , IBM and Sun . |
| 30 | First , the largest excursions of the eyes were only around 10 degrees . |