Example sentences of "had [been] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the price had been £50 lower it would have earned a fourth star . |
| 2 | Japan 's trade surplus with the USA in 1989 had been $49,000 million ( exports of less than $100,000 million against imports just exceeding $50,000 million ) . |
| 3 | The Government did however put in a £200 million investment programme over a four-year period ( the previous annual average , apart from one missile development programme , had been £5 million ) . |
| 4 | Gross lending for education had totalled $2,200 million , while funds for population , health and nutritional projects had been $1,570 million . |
| 5 | The surveyor 's price had been £10,000 , but the tenant later found two more surveyors who said that the price should be much lower , £3,500 and £1,250 respectively . |
| 6 | A hundred and fifty Bulmers workers from the distribution depot near the fire were evacuated to safety.And a roll call was taken to make sure no one else had been hurt.Meanwhile as fifty firefighters fought the flames , there was another explosion which hurled a sixty ton oil tank high into the air.It crashed down onto a fire engine : |
| 7 | The collective fee for their Excalibur 356 had been £250 , and at £50 per head , they reckoned the ARC was a singularly good deal . |
| 8 | This bridge , demolished in January 1956 , had been 30ft high , but was still only level with the towering heaps . |
| 9 | ( According to official figures , the surplus for 1988 and 1989 ( estimated ) , had been $941,000,000 and $241,000,000 respectively . ) |
| 10 | They were a little anxious about the flight over the Timor Sea as their compass had been 10° awry on the outward journey though it was correct at Melbourne . |
| 11 | After the 1987 election , the parliamentary party had only eleven MPs who had served in the Guards , and a further eight who had been cavalry officers . |
| 12 | During 1986 and 1987 , more than two-thirds of their work was repeat business ; in 1985 it had been 80% , so much of the increase in volume was due to winning new clients . |
| 13 | Neither of those two others had been Hake Bjortson . |
| 14 | The total expenditure on renewables research up to 1988 , for example , had been £152 million , equivalent to less than eighteen months spending on the fast reactor . |
| 15 | Accounts published during the bankruptcy proceedings in 1935 suggested that the subscription income had been £6,848 in 1925 , £604 in 1928 and afterwards less than £400 a year . |
| 16 | In February 1988 , says WG , Mr Carr told WG 's board that Alkar 's sales for the year to January had been £10.4m with a profit of £2.7m . |
| 17 | Between 1972 and 1981 it had been £14 billion a year . |
| 18 | Breakfast had been fruit and coffee ; she 'd firmly resisted the croissants with butter and apricot jam . |
| 19 | She guessed that , during her four months away , there had been staff coming and going as always . |
| 20 | One office conversion which had been 60% complete at the end of 1989 was completed in 1990 at a price of £40,000 . |
| 21 | He had been sales director for the major British manufacturer and had left two or three years ago when they were absorbed into a large industrial conglomerate . |
| 22 | However , Mr Meacher 's figures were challenged by the Department of Social Security , which claimed the compensation amount for couples this year had been 95p a week more than Labour 's estimate . |
| 23 | His doubts circled around two elements of Estabrook 's story : the assassin himself ( this Mr Pie , hired out of nowhere ) and more particularly , around the man who 'd introduced Estabrook to his hired hand : Chant , whose death had been media fodder for the past several days . |
| 24 | If we had n't taken that cash out , that is , if borrowings had been £150m more than they actually were , we probably would n't have got those covenant changes and the whole group could have gone under . ’ |
| 25 | The target had been £3.5 million , and the total raised from the council pension funds was £3,630,000 . |
| 26 | There had been people out in the desert . |
| 27 | One of the disadvantages of the issue 's timing had been people going on holiday , exacerbating the delays caused by the bureaucratic structures involved . |
| 28 | In the winter of 1950/1 , for example , government estimates were that consequential industrial production losses had been £8–10 millions . |
| 29 | He said that family income in Wales had been 87pc of that in the IRC in 1976/77 , but had dropped to only 64pc by 1990/91 . |
| 30 | During October the European free market price for 99.5 per cent pure cobalt , which had been £15 per lb ( roughly $33 000 per tonne ; £1 = $1.80 ) — or as low as $11 per lb for long term contracts direct with supplier — shot up to around $30 per lb . |