Example sentences of "a certain number of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quantum uncertainty principle and the random thermal motions of the atoms would mean that there were a certain number of errors in the reproduction . |
| 2 | This situation of mutual exclusion was found to be the case in a certain number of sentences in our corpus . |
| 3 | A particular exercise should be repeated only a certain number of times during any one session , otherwise , the dog will become bored . |
| 4 | you see , we used to when old shoes do you see , you could only use them a certain number of times by welding them up |
| 5 | I make a habit of sending a certain number of cases of wine each year to individuals at any level of the company who have done something which I have come across which seems to be particularly meritorious . |
| 6 | The University 's funding in future will come through a contract , awarded by the Universities Funding Council , to teach a certain number of students in certain subjects for certain prices . |
| 7 | The moreover , includes mention of a certain number of scholars of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries who were known chiefly as muftis : for example , Molla Bahaeddin omer and the three following scholars , all listed under the ulema of the time of Bayezid I , about none of whom , however , is much more information given than that " he was consulted in matters [ involving ] fetvas in his time " ( Taskopruzade ) or " he became mufti " and , indeed , in the case of these scholars it is simply not deducible in what way they were recognized as muftis , whether simply by popular acclaim or rather by some sort of official recognition . |
| 8 | He had a certain number of men-at-arms in the town , who could , probably , contain a revolt of the townsfolk , at least for a little while . |
| 9 | Well because if , if we got , if we say you 've got a certain number of members of staff , and each full time equivalent offers you two hundred and twenty two point eight working days a year . |
| 10 | Cubitt 's greatest savagery was reserved for the ‘ Meeting-House Gallery ’ ’ which he described as ‘ about the crudest attempt ever made at providing seats for a certain number of people over the heads of the rest ’ , a ‘ failure practically , and a horror artistically ’ , ‘ uncouth ’ and a ‘ gigantic misfit ’ . |
| 11 | So decide to meet a certain number of people for so many minutes each day , and gradually increase this over six months . |
| 12 | Later , after Picasso had denied any knowledge of African art in the Enquête sur l'Art Négre conducted by the review Action in 1920 , Paul Guillaume , the first Parisian art-dealer to become interested in African and other primitive sculptures as works of art , wrote : ‘ Picasso owns a certain number of pieces of very different origins ; he makes a pretence of attaching no importance to their chronology . ’ |
| 13 | All that was needed was to measure a certain number of coefficients of elasticity , viscosity , conductivity , etc . |
| 14 | Once we have a sampling frame , we can select a certain number of names from it . |
| 15 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 16 | Agency laboratories can process only a certain number of samples at any given time and organize the taking of samples to produce a steady and predictable flow . |
| 17 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |