Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun sg] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only will the proposed reorganisation plunge local government into confusion and uncertainty for a number of years , during which we can expect little progress with the review and upgrading of old minerals permissions , but the resulting structure of small unitary authorities is very unlikely to deliver either the resources or the strategic perspective required to implement the proposed review . |
| 2 | Manchester Computing Centre , as well as supporting computing at Manchester University and UMIST , acts as a national computing centre for the dissemination and support of a number of large datasets , such as the General Household Survey ( GHS ) and the Family Expenditure Survey ( FES ) . |
| 3 | This project continues a first phase of research funded by the Office of the Data Protection Registrar , the Office of Telecommunications and the Department of Law in the University of Sheffield to investigate current law and practice in a number of European member states and in the United States with the aim of contributing to current policy debates and examining the handling of the issues of privacy and new technology by different legal and administrative cultures . |
| 4 | The USSR Congress of People 's Deputies had adopted on Dec. 24 , 1989 , a resolution whereby the secret protocols of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact , diving Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and providing the pretext for Soviet annexation of the Baltic republics , had been condemned as having been " in conflict with the sovereignty and independence of a number of third countries " and in violation of the Soviet Union 's treaty obligations towards independent Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . |
| 5 | Oct/Nov 1992 — publication and circulation of a number of specially commissioned ‘ discussion papers ’ addressing key issues , including tourism and the environment ; |
| 6 | IBM also seemed able to combine huge scale with flexibility and quick-footedness in a number of directions . |
| 7 | Modular Object-Oriented Notation : Examination and comparison of a number of methods for a range of application areas ; Identification of a set of ‘ criteria ’ for the assessment of methods . |
| 8 | His first sale is a deliberately mixed bag affair of mainly Belgian provenance , including eighteenth-to nineteenth-century objets d'art , tapestries , tribal art and furniture with a number of Belgian items sent up from Paris and one hundred pieces of Far Eastern porcelain from a Belgian collection . |
| 9 | Social Anthropology 1 presents an assessment of the contribution of the work of anthropologists to knowledge and understanding of a number of human concerns including ritual and religion , the family and marriage and the consequences of the spread of money economies and industrialisation among the populations of the Third World . |
| 10 | Assessment questionnaires and inventories can be useful to both therapist and client for a number of reasons . |
| 11 | The net proceeds will be used for working capital and capital expenditures associated with the development and introduction of a number of new products . |
| 12 | After briefly reviewing the definition and measurement of investment , this chapter considers the theory and evidence for a number of factors allegedly affecting fixed investment . |
| 13 | However , they believe there could be some hope of recovering lines of credit which were extended by International Signal and Control to a number of European intermediaries . |
| 14 | However , the deputy head himself became active as a member of the INSET panel set up by the project , and was involved in the planning and presentation of a number of inservice day-conferences and workshops in the county 's calendar . |
| 15 | This blatant discrepancy between the actual structure of property relations and its ideological appropriation in ‘ pension fund socialism ’ or ‘ people 's capitalism ’ should form an excellent starting point for socialist argument and propaganda at a number of levels . |
| 16 | This is less likely to happen when we are older — not only have the hormones settled down , but we have moved beyond youthful ambitions and have time to cultivate a relationship , and actively seek love and companionship as a number one priority . |
| 17 | The electron density observed in the ligand-binding pocket of A2U is different in shape , located closer to one side of the barrel and slightly less deep in the binding pocket than in MUP ( Fig. 3 ) , although it is still consistent with the size and shape of a number of pheromones . |
| 18 | During the past year , the Archive has continued its programme of research in information science and technology in a number of ways . |
| 19 | Thus , even if space is left within and at the end of each index , updating will involve the shifting and shuffling of a number of records or the use of pointers and links to the new records . |
| 20 | The latitude and longitude for a number of points along the coasts of Greenland , Baffin Island and Canada/Alaska are listed in Appendix E. These latitudes and longitudes must be converted into ( x , y ) plotting coordinates using the formulae : |
| 21 | Further , 9 is used to represent history and geography in a number of different contexts . |
| 22 | His local authority experience includes road design and construction on the Edinburgh city bypass scheme and involvement in a number of studies such as the Edinburgh Central Area Study , the Leith Docks Approach Study and the Edinburgh East Approach Study . |
| 23 | In mid-1991 a major anti-drug campaign was launched which resulted in the imprisonment and execution of a number of drug offenders . |
| 24 | ENGLISH law governing remedies for interference with goods is exceedingly technical , partly because of the long survival and overlap of a number of different heads of liability and partly because the law , though tortious in form , is largely proprietary in function . |
| 25 | At the University of Sheffield , Wood has been responsible for the design and development of a number of simulations of online services : FOSSILS , a simulation of DIALOG , BLAISERS a simulation of BLAISE MARC , MUTE-MEDLINE User Training Exercise and SSDC a simulation of SDC . |
| 26 | It builds on research which is already being undertaken in these centres and compares the involvement of citizens and local leaders in the politics and administration of a number of different communities in Britain and France . |
| 27 | From the AIB point of view the exercise meant devoting the time and effort of a number of experienced personnel to activities that served no benefit to the Branch . |