Example sentences of "were [adv] fifteen " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first half of the 1980s , there were only fifteen expropriations compared with 336 in the first half of the 1970s . |
| 2 | It is true however that the January survey which is erm which took place very recently erm , there were only fifteen vacancies in the subject in this in the country overall , it 's also true to say that of thirteen thousand one hundred religious education specialists in the country , only half of them were actually teaching their own subject . |
| 3 | Down in Cardiff … it was the british powerboat grand prix … formula one on water … the home favourite here was number five Steve Kerton from Gloucestershire … lying second in the world championship he pushed his craft to second in the race and was chasing a victory … when a valve blew … and that was that … there were only fifteen laps to go … |
| 4 | There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing . |
| 5 | He said there were about fifteen volumes . |
| 6 | By 1918 , when the President retired , there were about fifteen hundred members and twenty-two branches . |
| 7 | I think , Maureen , I remember when we were about fifteen , at the last count she had forty nine first cousins ! |
| 8 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 9 | then I were married in sixty five I were n't fifteen ! |