The word(s) "was" appears 365 time(s) in 307 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(291) How (great) was then My punishment and My warning!

(292) How (great) was then My punishment and My warning!

(293) So it tasted the evil result of its conduct, and the end of its affair was perdition.

(294) Allah sets forth an example to those who disbelieve the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut: they were both under two of Our righteous servants, but they acted treacherously towards them so they availed them naught against Allah, and it was said: Enter both the fire with those who enter.

(295) And Marium, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of Our inspiration and she accepted the truth of the words of her Lord and His books, and she was of, the obedient ones.

(296) Or are you secure of those in the heaven that He should not send down upon you a punishment? Then shall you know how was My warning.

(297) And certainly those before them rejected (the truth), then how was My disapproval.

(298) So wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, and be not like the companion of the fish, when he cried while he was in distress.

(299) Were it not that favor from his Lord had overtaken him, he would certainly have been cast down upon the naked Found while he was blamed.

(300) And I had not known what my account was: