Example sentences of "[num] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , of course , I go along with the perception that being 40 these days is like 30 used to be . |
| 2 | Works done in Nice between 1917 and 1932 used to be hard to sell but have now been upgraded . |
| 3 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 4 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 5 | And er the level crossing of the old A one used to be here . |
| 6 | A little over ninety per cent I suppose , and erm , I 'm not sure if you got fourteen or fifteen carat , so fourteen I think is used with the continental standard and the lowest continental standard now are fifteen used to be our inbetween standard , very rarely used . |
| 7 | One boy of nine used to be let out to spend weekends with a bachelor priest . |
| 8 | 1 used to be sad . |