Example sentences of "in [adj] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wages in 1780 were 20 shillings ( £1 ) a week and he asked for an increase to 2 guineas ( £2.10 ) a week . |
| 2 | The latter has become the major occupation for women , for about one quarter of Latin America 's female workforce are maids — 25.5% of the female labour force in Bogotá in 1985 were domestic servants ( López & Pollack 1989 ) and 32 per cent of the total Brazilian female workforce are live-in maids ( Filet-Abreu Souza 1980 ) . |
| 3 | The normal conclusion from this would be that the readings of mouth in 63–67 were contextual modulations of a single superordinate sense . |
| 4 | Assuming that one in 10 were severe reactions — experience suggests the ratio would be much lower — that implies a total of 318 500 reactions , or two out of every three patients . |
| 5 | In that case , not even in 1984–5 were real interest rates positive . |
| 6 | Among the new products we launched in 1992 were low toxicity , biodegradable additives for use in offshore , water-based drilling muds , and Prozone , used in cleaning printed circuit boards . |
| 7 | The company 's total UK car sales in 1992 were 266,072 7pc up on the 1991 figure . |
| 8 | The 225,000 hand-loom weavers in 1811 were three times the number of 1795 . |
| 9 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 10 | The Tories in general were more isolationist than the Whigs , although it would be wrong to suggest that they were not sympathetic to the desire to contain France after 1689 . |
| 11 | There can be little doubt , however , that a sense of God 's presence and of the supernatural in general were long-standing characteristics of Irish popular religion , along with magical and semi-magical local religious practices . |
| 12 | Alex James and David Jack in particular were reluctant passengers . |
| 13 | Again from the Judicial Statistics 1989 , the table now looks like this : From these figures we can see that a high proportion of the cases disposed of in 1989 were personal injury actions ( 9,820 out of 12,859 ) hence the attention paid to this category of cases , and that in such cases for every 49 writs issued in 1989 , one case was determined by trial . |
| 14 | Fourteen per cent of those accepted as statutorily homeless in 1989 were pregnant women ( DoE 1990 ) . |
| 15 | Principal trading partners in 1989 were European Community countries and the United States . |