Example sentences of "there were [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 2 | Dovercourt ended its days as a refugee centre in March 1939 when there were less than a hundred , mostly older boys , still in occupation . |
| 3 | Credit sale was exempt if there were less than five instalments , and was generally subject to less regulation . |
| 4 | There were less than three minutes to go and referee Brian Hill decided to call a halt — with a little help from Wilkins . |
| 5 | In 1901 there were less than two million people over 65 in Britain , but by 1981 this had risen to about eight million ( Henwood and Wicks 1985 ) . |
| 6 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 7 | Despite his magnetic personality and his enormous popularity the PNI was slow to win members : one calculation is that by September 1929 there were less than 6000 . |
| 8 | When there were less than 30 days to delivery , no further daily volatility estimates were computed . |
| 9 | There were less than twelve hours before the big day , my first day at Debenham High School . |
| 10 | When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people , but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass . |
| 11 | Estimates of total enrolment vary , but it seems unlikely that there were less than 100,000 Sunday school pupils by 1800 . |
| 12 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 13 | There were more than eleven million trips from East Germany to Czechoslovakia last year . |
| 14 | When Botham was eighth out the score was 114 and there were more than five overs left . |
| 15 | Her purpose was to establish a pilot project which might encourage the government to use its antenatal clinics and infant and maternal welfare clinics , of which there were more than 2,000 , to distribute information on birth control and contraceptives ; the Ministry of Health was by that time offering financial aid to the 400 local authorities who ran such clinics and could have forced them to become centres for birth control . |
| 16 | Among the thirty-eight who had been politically active , there were more than twice as many Conservatives as anything else — nineteen were Tories , seven Liberal and eight Labour . |
| 17 | In Japan there were more than 40,000 kids there but they were so far away she must have physically looked half an inch high . |
| 18 | By 1972 Walton had 64 stores , with sales of $125 million per annum , and thereafter growth was exponential : by 1991 there were more than 1,700 , with annual sales approaching $44 billion . |
| 19 | By 1991 there were more than 200 of these , and they were followed by further innovations : in 1987 Walton opened Hypermart USA store at Garland , Texas ( a shop with 220,000 square feet of retail space , known as ‘ Malls without walls ’ ) . |
| 20 | Spanning three centuries , the wooden quays and piers of early dockside beginnings expanded until there were more than 12 miles of berthing for ships of every size and purpose . |
| 21 | He estimated that there were more than 300 cases . |
| 22 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 23 | The country was in the grip of economic depression , and in June 1921 there were more than two million out of work . |
| 24 | There were more than 80 NSAI preparations , containing some 30 different chemical compounds , listed in the Monthly Index of Medical Specialities ( MIMS ) when Opren first appeared there in November 1980 , in the wake of a rip-roaring advertising campaign . |
| 25 | Because of the complexity of the polymer there were more than a thousand peaks or data points per sample but Burmester reduced this vast amount of information by computer clustering . |
| 26 | In the autumn there had been a great commotion when a large party of the King 's and Warden 's men , some fifty of them , mounted and heavily armed , gathered on Steep Ridgery and carefully marked where the plumes of smoke were rising — often there were more than one — and made off purposefully towards them . |
| 27 | You think there were more than one ? ’ |
| 28 | In 1978 there were more than 33,000 unions of this kind , some 90 per cent of the total , covering more than 12 million members . |
| 29 | Although there were more than 100 British nationals killed in the accident there was no provision at that time for a State with such an interest to participate , but knowing that the minister was bound to be asked by MPs in the House what arrangements there were for investigating the cause of death of so many UK citizens I telephoned my old friend Michel Vigier in paris with a formal request that we might send a UK observer . |
| 30 | There were more than 100 trade stands , including vast displays of sophisticated hi-tech agricultural machinery . |