Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Structures like those built for Spurgeon and Parker were only two of a myriad of building enterprises entered into by various Nonconformist denominations . |
| 2 | Initially there were only two to a battalion , but as the weapon 's capabilities in defence and attack were realized , more and more were issued and soon whole units were armed with only these fast-firing automatic weapons . |
| 3 | The approaches made in 1759 by the Danish government to the United Provinces for the creation of a maritime union to defend neutral rights were only one of a series of proposals for some anti-British combination of this kind which culminated in the Armed Neutrality of 1780 . |
| 4 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
| 6 | Maidstone is one of a number of designated prisons able to take ‘ lifers ’ and it can provide up to 100 places for them , although there were only 80 at the time of my visit . |
| 7 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 8 | Between six and ten people ( there were only ten on the class register ) regularly attended these sessions . |
| 9 | In 1871 there were perhaps 120,000 in the Straits Settlements ( Malaya ) . |
| 10 | Newly-weds Nigel and Emma Thorpe were just two of the nurses enticed by a job at Heidelberg University Hospital , accommodation and language training . |
| 11 | IVANA TRUMP and Chris Eubank were just two of the celebrities at Esquire 's charity midsummer fashion show . |
| 12 | The following year Brando and Clift were just two of an array of stars in the big-scale war film The Young Lions , but did not appear together . |
| 13 | Back in 1980 , however , they were just one of a generation of bands ( Bunnymen , Teardrops , Joy Division/New Order ) attempting to forge a new kind of rock music in the wake of the punk revolution . |
| 14 | Manchester City were just one of the clubs impressed by his aggressive style a style which helped dump the Frist Division side out of the Rumbelows League Cup and FA Cup at Ayresome Park . |
| 15 | ‘ They were just one of the off-shoots . |
| 16 | ‘ You said there were usually three to a cell , ’ Clinton observed . |
| 17 | As nearly all of the subjects in the study by Mattila et al were men aged 50 to 60 or younger , we also present results for men who were under 50 at the baseline examinations . |
| 18 | Not only were nearly three-fifths of the people here unable to scrape together sufficient personal property to reach the tax threshold of £2 , but none got the alternative of 20s. wages in the year , as did many in the Midland and southern counties who were in the same position . |
| 19 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 20 | The chances of a local gentry family holding on to its farm through three or more generations were about 50:50 during the Elizabethan and Stuart era . |
| 21 | And er I got , they 'd got about twelve hundred members , and I think I got about a thousand , of course there were n't two of the men that knew and they voted . |
| 22 | The years 1961 – 63 were undoubtedly one of the peaks in the special relationship , and the successors of Kennedy and Macmillan in the 1960s failed to establish the same rapport . |
| 23 | Alejandro Guzman , known as Tito , and Ademar Lima Lobo , who were allegedly two of the country 's most wanted drug traffickers , were arrested in a police and army drug raid , along with 54 others , on Dec. 9 in the eastern department of Beni . |
| 24 | There were over 5,000 in the Volunteers when they were at their greatest strength and although future years were to see Glasgow regiments of men who fought and died in many lands , the old Volunteers who fought a dog and lost , were soldiers too . |
| 25 | Jesus and the Father were absolutely one in the purpose of winning the world . |
| 26 | Like as not he would n't even recognize her , and he 'd made it clear she was merely one of a number of girls who accommodated him . |
| 27 | The base was merely one of the factors which should normally be considered . |
| 28 | He was merely one of the Emperor 's tools . |
| 29 | The house that William had found was down one of the side streets and not so majestic , but it still had a fair bit of the Gothic about it , and the brass knocker on the front door had the face of an ogre . |
| 30 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |