4 verses have
were
in Edition Clear Qur'an by Talal Itani / Ar-Room (The Romans)

30:9Have they not travelled the earth and seen how those before them ended up? They were more powerful than them, and they cultivated the land and developed it more than they developed it, and their messengers came to them with clear signs. God would never wrong them, but they used to wrong themselves.

30:42Say, “Roam the earth, and observe the fate of those who came before. Most of them were idolaters.”

30:49Although they were before this—before it was sent down upon them—in despair.

30:55On the Day when the Hour takes place, the sinners will swear they had stayed but an hour. Thus they were deluded.