Example sentences of "[noun] of a great number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The equilibrium so consummately achieved results from the counterpoise of a great number of directions . |
| 2 | To resolve this issue , a further investigation was set up , involving the processing of a much larger corpus and the testing of a greater number of domains . |
| 3 | But whereas such poems are rare in earlier periods , in twelfth-century Europe they multiply so explosively that the phenomenon can not be explained merely as the reflection of a greater number of extant manuscripts . |
| 4 | A strong stimulus induces the passage of a greater number of impulses per second than a weaker one . |
| 5 | This is the origin of a great number of ‘ green lanes ’ on the map which run for a few miles , separating parishes on either side but eventually petering out . |
| 6 | If we focus on all those clients who were still at home one year after referral , we can ask again whether the Home Support Project was sustaining more disadvantaged people than were still at home in the control sub-sample , and we can examine the interplay of a greater number of factors than those presented in Table 4.4 . |
| 7 | To deny this magic is to incur the wrath of a great number of people . |
| 8 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
| 9 | It is appropriate , then , that Ali has been the subject of a great number of pieces in Esquire , most of them written by undisputed literary heavyweights , including Irwin Shaw and Norman Mailer among others . |
| 10 | This fragmentation of the state , with the ‘ coexistence of a great number of autonomous centres of power , all weakly linked to each other ’ ( Burgi 1985 : 137 ) makes more difficult the definition and co-ordination of public enterprise objectives . |
| 11 | The differences between reading experiences are often perceived as being fuzzy , and so a more realistic representation of a greater number of texts would have loci at points within and between the nine prototypical nodes . |