Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [prep] those " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were six of those in the first section of the compartment . |
| 2 | When unoccupied parents were combined with classes IV and V and compared with classes I and II , however , inequalities seemed to be pervasive throughout childhood ; the relative risks were 2.21 for those aged 1–4 and 1.98 for those aged 10–15 . |
| 3 | It was torture and you were one of those who suffered most . |
| 4 | An ordinary shut door , for example , would not be opaque to you , if you were one of those species of bat or whale who relied heavily upon detection of sound waves ! |
| 5 | And I ca n't say I have the slightest sympathy for them , and I would also guess that you were one of those caught with their financial trousers down . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I thought — am I wrong ? — that you were one of those who voted for Duke William as heir . |
| 7 | Sales were four times those of the next highest country ( USA ) and the number of employees was 1·7 times the next highest ( FRG ) . |
| 8 | The association of periodontal index and total mortality reflects the findings of the periodontal classification ; the relative risk was 1.53 for those at the 90th centile compared with those below the lowest decile of the distribution of the index . |
| 9 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 10 | The number of visits was strongly related to the number of visitors : of those with less than five visitors , a quarter had a hundred or more visits , but this proportion was three-quarters for those with five or more visitors . |
| 11 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 12 | For him it was a matter of great moment , for he was one of those artists who hold that the energy of artistic creation is itself erotic , indeed ( in his most extreme formulations ) positively genital . |
| 13 | It was one of those rare occasions when neither of the Whitaker brothers reached the jump-off , but Skelton still had 11 to beat . |
| 14 | He was one of those relatively few actors — Ian McKellen and Simon Callow are others — who somehow boost the confidence of regular theatregoers by taking the opportunity of a free evening to watch fellow actors at work . |
| 15 | IT WAS one of those days which news editors will remember on their death-beds . |
| 16 | It was one of those Bolshevik instruments of nation-wide control which will be studied in the next chapter . |
| 17 | The Bishop 's Hostel at Lincoln was one of those mid-Victorian foundations intended to train future clergymen . |
| 18 | I did not know what ‘ cinema ’ was , it was one of those wonderful and unimaginable pleasures like La Semaine de Suzette and its doll Bleuette , which the war had taken away . |
| 19 | It was one of those gorgeous early mornings when the sun has just risen but it 's still dark enough to see the brightest stars . |
| 20 | Phoebe continually meant to buy blinds , blinds that would be ingeniously fitted into little runnels either side of the glass slopes , but it was one of those domestic chores that she had never managed to complete . |
| 21 | The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do . |
| 22 | Tiberius was one of those men you are warned to flee from and report to the police when they arrive offering sweets . |
| 23 | He was one of those men of whom the historian Edward Gibbon , who wrote the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , reported their disgusting activities ‘ in the decent obscurity of a learned language . ’ |
| 24 | Sir Ian was one of those who considered putting himself forward as a candidate , but did n't when Sir Anthony Meyer declared himself . |
| 25 | ‘ It was one of those rough days , ’ Cooney admitted with a bruise under his left eye and a shining , tight patch of skin on his very large nose . |
| 26 | ‘ It was one of those rough days , ’ Cooney admitted with a bruise under his left eye and a shining , tight patch of skin on his very large nose . |
| 27 | My own father ( 1897-1940 ) was one of those who , although he had a brilliant mind , came from a large , poor , working-class family . |
| 28 | It was one of those very profound observations which was misunderstood at the time but is now widely accepted by Roman Catholic scholars among others . |
| 29 | June was one of those characters who do n't develop . |
| 30 | She alighted at the ‘ unmanned ’ station with its empty flowerbeds : it was one of those magic spring days in the midst of autumn and there was a tangy scent of wood in the air from the sawmill beside the railway line . |