Re: How would you type this?

Barbara Carlson wrote:
I disagree strongly. The was should be were. Of blood is a prepositional phrase, not the subject, which is milliliters. It is not a case of a disagreement, was is wrong, were is correct. 

Why?  It's not the milliliters that were withdrawn, it was the blood.

This is not an argumentive question but a sincere one.
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