Example sentences of "[verb] was [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 2 | The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees . |
| 3 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 4 | The largest flock noted was of 60 birds , but parties of up to 20 are much more usual and many records are of single birds . |
| 5 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 6 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 7 | The adjournment ordered was until 2 July 1991 . |
| 8 | During the entire movement , none of the aircraft were damaged and the only incident recorded was of one Spitfire performing a forced landing in a farmer 's field while en route to Prestwick . |
| 9 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 10 | The analysis of the data thus obtained was in two parts . |
| 11 | The range from the firing point to where the rounds impacted was between 35 metres ( the shot that hit Barling ) and 30 metres ( the ones that hit the pillar ) … ’ |