Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [pron] was [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was thirty-five to forty and it was assumed that he was an army intelligence officer . |
| 2 | The planners ' survey of the 24 incoming firms established in the New Town by 1973 indicated that these had expansion plans which would lead to the creation of a further 7000 jobs by 1991 and it was anticipated that additional in comers would provide a further 3000 jobs . |
| 3 | Real progress was made at the UN-sponsored talks on Afghanistan in May 1986 since it was agreed that Soviet troop withdrawals should begin simultaneously with the cessation of external interference and not after it as Soviet officials had previously insisted . |
| 4 | The craze hit Dallas in 1907 and it was observed that the first audiences were made up of women and children ; only later did men follow . |
| 5 | By 1949 the world 's airlines had carried over twenty million paying passengers , by 1956 the figure had reached over sixty million and it was estimated that 90 per cent of the world 's land surface could be reached by the traveller . |
| 6 | Pearn returned from Simla in the early part of 1945 and it was decided that both he and I should stay with the Department , go with it when the civil government returned to Burma , and get it working as effectively as possible . |
| 7 | This type of committee was modelled on the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries which had been set up in 1955 because it was felt that Parliament could not adequately control the range of corporations it had created . |