Example sentences of "number [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To find Ninja Warriors , turn your C64 off after Silkworm has loaded , write down the counter number for future reference , then hit Shift & Run/Stop , then Play again . |
| 2 | Details of the flight with map references , operating heights , times and working radius around a point were agreed , and I was given a reference number for future contacts . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
| 4 | Publishers were not slow to realize the potential of the new market , releasing a spate of books and magazines which were the successors to the elitist Victorian guide book and the predecessors of the glossy coffee-table number for contemporary leisure motorists . |
| 5 | ( iii ) self-contained flats and houses for 1 to 6 students , including a limited number for married couples and families , situated in the main within a 1-mile radius of the University . |
| 6 | The number for heavy duty front springs is NRC2119 ( these are actually standard rear as well ) . |
| 7 | Consequently , it was felt appropriate , as a preparatory step , to reduce the numbers of non-executive Directors while retaining a sufficient number for proper non-executive representation . |
| 8 | Some television advertising gives an address or telephone number for direct sales of goods . |
| 9 | A list of regularly-occurring dream objects that are accepted by psychoanalysts as sexual symbols produced 102 symbols for a penis and just over half that number for sexual intercourse itself . |
| 10 | Further information from Telephone number during normal office hours from the UK is |
| 11 | A score of 12 on the sweat spot test response appears to be the delimiting number between normal and abnormal subjects in this population . |
| 12 | In the past we have held a number of fund-raising events in the area . |
| 13 | There are no genuine domestic parties , although a number of narrowly-based political groups exist . |
| 14 | Scientists attempting to calculate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations are in exactly the same position : the only evidence we have for life anywhere in the Universe is confined to this planet . |
| 15 | The number of rail–served collieries in South Wales declined dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 16 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 17 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 18 | In fact , the number of left-wing activists was never large but their impact was out of all proportion to their numbers because they found new methods of protest which caught the imagination of much larger numbers . |
| 19 | They now proceeded to criticize a number of left-wing Labour councils for their management of particular policies . |
| 20 | They are , in any case , based on a number of unproved assumptions about how people learn , about the instilling of habits as against the development of understanding which , if they were examined , would probably be found to have no foundation or utility . |
| 21 | Anthony Kasozi 's work as ACET 's Director in uganda has recently received financial support form Tear Fund which has enabled him , together with ACET General Manager , Maurice Adams , to identify a number of church-based projects for the coming year . |
| 22 | Labelling index per cent ( LI% ) was measured by counting the number of bromodeoxyuridine-positive cells and expressing the result as a percentage of the total number of cells in a crypt . |
| 23 | ( a ) ( 18 ) There is some discrepancy between the number of orthographic words ( see 1 ) and the number of syntactic words : for example , we count could n't as two syntactic words ( modal auxiliary + negative particle ) , but a few as one syntactic word ( determiner ) . |
| 24 | There have been a large number of syntactic theories proposed and an even larger number of parsing systems developed . |
| 25 | The maximum presidential mandate was limited to two terms of seven years each ( whereas previously the president could serve for an unlimited number of five-year terms ) . |
| 26 | Rather , α needs to be determined by some sort of average of the values for a number of preceding trials as in the following equation : ( 3.2 ) |
| 27 | The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort . |
| 28 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 29 | A number of audio-visual tape/slide presentations dealing with various aspects of library user instruction had been produce d under the SCONUL tape/slide programme , at a number of British university libraries . |
| 30 | A number of respectable gentlemen in the town and neighbourhood of Manchester , being desirous that this plan shall include the whole of the township of Manchester and Salford , and as much of the adjoining townships , as will fall within that square , which will be formed from the extensions of the said two townships , Mr. Green hopes that this will be a sufficient apology for advancing the subscription to one guinea each copy . ’ |