Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I was forty at the time so I was five |
| 2 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his brief spell at the Prenton Park club . |
| 3 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his spell at Prenton . |
| 4 | I was twenty-one at the time and the whole experience gave me a lot of confidence . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Fagan , who was 30 at the time , was not prosecuted for the trespass after the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled there was no evidence that the trespass was a criminal offence . |
| 6 | Moira was 12 at the time . |
| 7 | Moira was 12 at the time . |
| 8 | He also succeeded a pope , Celestine III , who was 85 at the time of his election and therefore over ninety at the time of his death . |
| 9 | But I was forty-six at the time ! |
| 10 | ‘ I was in a competition and my daughter — who was three at the time — was watching . |
| 11 | I was fourteen at the time , so was she ; she sent me a signed photograph which I keep in the breast pocket of my school blazer until both photograph and blazer fell apart . |
| 12 | I was sixteen at the time . |
| 13 | I was ten at the time and attending Sir Robert Hitchams Primary School . |
| 14 | ‘ Naylor was ten at the time , was n't he ? ’ |
| 15 | Louis XIV , who was 25 at the time , danced two roles a village maiden and a gypsy . |
| 16 | I was twelve at the time . ’ |
| 17 | Anna was 38 at the time , a single parent with an 11-year-old daughter . |
| 18 | This programme was successfully carried through by Erwin Schrödinger and his results published early in 1926 , a classic counter-example to the assertion that distinguished theoretical physicists do their best work before they are 25 ( Schrödinger was 38 at the time ) . |
| 19 | I was fifteen at the time , and we were on holiday in the mountains . |
| 20 | Because Pliny the Elder had been so widely-esteemed , the historian Tacitus was anxious to find out more about the circumstances of his death , and about the eruption in general , so he asked Pliny 's nephew , who was seventeen at the time and survived the eruption , to provide him with details of what had happened . |
| 21 | She was 27 at the time and not residing with her parents . |
| 22 | I was nine at the time of the wedding and you just could not imagine how foolish I felt , dressed as a bride in all her finery , standing beside a six-year-old and with hundreds of people looking on . |
| 23 | The precocious actress , who was 16 at the time , played a young runaway whom Pitt 's character beats up , turns into a junkie and sells for sex . |
| 24 | She was 16 at the time , but later succeeded in qualifying as a lawyer . |
| 25 | ( 22 November 1780 ) The tenor , Anton Raaff , who was singing the title role , caused difficulties for different reasons — he was 65 at the time and his voice was past its best : |
| 26 | Miss Miller , who was 65 at the time of her death but had a mental age of two , died on November 7 last year from head injuries . |
| 27 | She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 28 | Julie Dixon , who was eighteen at the time of the murder , has been awarded an undisclosed sum by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for the loss of parental support she suffered . |
| 29 | The girl , now 16 , was 14 at the time of the alleged incident . |
| 30 | Charles was thirty at the time . |