Example sentences of "[num] and it 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |