Example sentences of "[art] number of [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A preliminary round to be created to reduce the number of teams from the present 21 to 16 , consisting of the three nonfirst-class sides and seven first-class counties taken in alphabetical order of rotation . |
| 2 | Over the protests of black African states , the Security Council had reduced the number of soldiers from the 7,500 originally envisaged to 4,650 . |
| 3 | RESIGNATIONS of underwriting members from the Lloyd 's insurance market could top 2,000 by the end of this year , a new record in the number of departures from the market . |
| 4 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 5 | ( b ) If the motor has attained its maximum stepping rate deceleration must commence when the number of steps required to decelerate is equal to the number of steps from the target . |
| 6 | Dixon reports : ‘ In the last 12 months , there has been a 30 per cent rise in the number of fans from the younger age group attending our shows . |
| 7 | The Regimental Sergeant Major , responsible for co-ordinating sporting activity in addition to his normal duty , reports that a number of soldiers from the regiment are going on a sailing course . |
| 8 | A target of 20 kilograms per hectare a year has been proposed by the Canadians and backed by a number of scientists from the USA . |
| 9 | Paul Mba Abessole , a prominent opposition figure and leader of a faction of the main opposition group , the National Rectification Movement ( Morena ) , refused to accept a Cabinet post , as did some other opposition politicians , on the grounds that they had not been consulted on the composition of the new government , which included a number of ministers from the outgoing Cabinet . |
| 10 | There must be quite a number of members from the university who are in the chorus . |
| 11 | And we have also inherited a number of projects from the Schools Council . |
| 12 | Lorraine Gabriel , prosecuting , said Wennington received more than £260 for a number of hampers from the customer . |
| 13 | This year 's event attracted a number of scholarships from the Volvo Tour itself to manufacturers such as Wilson and Dunlop Slazenger and Tour sponsors like Diners Club and Hewlett Packard . |
| 14 | You will have erm before you on the sheet a number of resolutions from the groups in relation to the budget and although the motions have n't been put , I 'll just refer you to a statement which I produced which seems to compare the compare the motions the draft motions from each of the groups . |
| 15 | These seemed to be excellent local background material and I was able to use quite a number of facts from the pamphlets , giving the appropriate reference in each case . |
| 16 | The culprit parked , unaware of their surveillance , and proceeded to offload a number of items from the rear of the estate , including a clearly labelled Rentokil bag . |
| 17 | This depends on squaring the whole or part of the key , and taking a number of digits from the centre of the resulting value . |
| 18 | It is against this background that we must see the recent withdrawals of a number of analgesics from the market in Britain . |
| 19 | Weymouth boats took a number of rays from the Adamant Bank while marks just off Portland produced dogfish , pout , conger and occasional cod . |
| 20 | I had called a meeting in my office , by now decorated with a number of pictures from the Government 's own art collection including a marvellous study of the railway cutting at Acton by Lucien Pissarro . |
| 21 | My right hon. Friend and I have received a number of representations from the Combined Heat and Power Association . |
| 22 | Despite a number of withdrawals from the field , there are still some 15 European producers of ethylene oxide , and about seven of phenol and four each of carbonylation alcohols and amines . |
| 23 | Kim took a number of books from the bottom of his bag and added them to the pile on the desk , then looked up again . |
| 24 | Britain , meanwhile , has set an important precedent by including a number of representatives from the food industry and consumer groups in its delegation to the conference . |
| 25 | Phyllis Mary Ashraf 's Introduction to Working Class Literature in Great Britain ( 1978–9 ) considers a number of poets from the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | As Iraq moved through the 1970s the Baath regime became well settled in power , with the gradual emergence in key positions of a number of individuals from the town of Tikrit on the Tigris , north of Baghdad . |
| 27 | The management of this type of change is distinctly different in a number of ways from the management of change in many other arenas that concern human resource development ( HRD ) practitioners daily . |