Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drexel assets were calculated at some $2,600 million and it was agreed to divide these between the bank 's creditors and the various litigants . |
| 2 | Over half of the staff of 62 were interviewed at some point , many more than once — a total of 66 interviews altogether . |
| 3 | The Cambridge Group for the Study of Population and Social Structure ( CAMPOP ) have shown that in seventy communities where total lists of inhabitants were made at some point between the late sixteenth and the early nineteenth century the proportion of householders who were widowed was about 1:5 ; at Clayworth ( Notts. ) in 1688 it was higher than 1:4 . |
| 4 | Linkage to nuclear industry databases identified four ( out of 54 ) case fathers and 10 ( out of 324 ) control fathers who were employed at some time before their child had cancer diagnosed ( relative risk 2.5 , p=0.25 ; table IV ) . |
| 5 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
| 6 | Beneath it , two geese were pecking at some grain . |
| 7 | We had to pay er there was two lots of erm tyres , there was one set of buses were fitted with and another one with or I forget which it was there but I know those three were involved at some time or other and we used to record the mileage , send it off to them , showing what each bus ran during the month . |
| 8 | Hill had his critics — he still has — and they were quick to say that he showed an unwillingness to get stuck in , yet all the early season races were led at some point by the quiet man bearing the colours of the London Rowing Club on his helmet , just as his father had . |
| 9 | Roughly a third of the population are estimated to have suffered directly from the bombing : more than a quarter of homes in Germany were damaged in some way ; fourteen million persons lost some property through bombing ; between seventeen and twenty millions were deprived at some time of electricity , gas , or water ; nearly five millions had to evacuate because of ‘ air terror ’ ; 305,000 people were killed . |
| 10 | The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it . |
| 11 | Finally , there also seemed to be some evidence than an internal bias towards helplessness ( similar to Seligman 's concept ) was implicated at some stage , in making PMP more likely or leading to poor coping responses . |
| 12 | Erm briefly , the situation is that it 's alleged that he broke two stained glass door panels and Mr denies that he broke the second of the two , the one at the front door he says was broken at some time earlier on the evening on which he was involved . |
| 13 | The one at the front door he says was broken at some time earlier than the evening on which he was involved . |
| 14 | The union treaty was considered at some length by the Central Committee plenum in December 1990 ; it approved a resolution calling for the ‘ renewal and preservation of a unitary Soviet Union ’ , a renewal that was ‘ socialist in character ’ . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend then said : ’ I understand that in this instance Dr. Beer 's request was considered at some length by an assessment panel of six which included the District Chair , Chief Executive and District Director of Public Health . |
| 16 | Further improvement in the sharpness of the cut-off response of practical filters can be achieved by cascading sections and the design of filters comprising multiple identical sections was considered at some length in chapter 9 . |
| 17 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 18 | There is evidence to support the theory that the whole system was disrupted at some point , either by the passage of a comet or else by an encounter with an interstellar storm . |
| 19 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 20 | The logical erm conclusion from that was to look at some form of tertiary education and that is what the County Council went out to consultation on . |
| 21 | The corporation claimed that coal was produced at some stage yesterday at 12 of its 50 pits and that NUM members reported for work at one pit in the north-east and one colliery in the Yorkshire coalfield . |
| 22 | The manuscript suggests that he was born at some date between 1485 and 1492 , and his latest completed work is dated 1546 . |
| 23 | Obviously this was challenged at some point . |
| 24 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 25 | Looting and arson were widespread , and the damage was estimated at some £10 million . |
| 26 | The issue of additionality was discussed at some length because of the light it might throw on whether there was more to Making Belfast Work than hype . |
| 27 | You are , however of course , aware that this background to insetting was discussed at some length yesterday , in the context of another village . |
| 28 | The Polytechnic Chaplaincy was discussed at some length . |
| 29 | According to Dexter , ‘ much time was spent on a detailed review of the Old Trafford Test and disappointment was expressed at some elements of England 's performance . |
| 30 | Although other burials clustered around the enclosure , the internal area was respected , until the whole monument was dismantled at some time in the fourth century . |