Example sentences of "[adv] large number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building industry has today an appreciably larger number of men at work than in the years immediately before 1939 , though probably rather a smaller percentage of the total are building new houses . |
| 2 | The multidivisional enterprise : The tendency of the argument here is the following : if the exploitation of economies of scale on the part of capitalist enterprises primarily involved the development of ever larger units of production , in the technical sense , concentrating progressively larger numbers of workers into massive factories , then there could indeed be a conflict between the wish to retain the benefits of economies of scale on the one hand and the requirements of ‘ manageable ’ enterprise democracy on the other . |
| 3 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 4 | There was no ‘ minimum wage ’ and clubs tended to take on large numbers of hopefuls at low rates . |
| 5 | The specialist team closed a larger proportion of cases within six months , and the specialist worker kept open a strikingly larger number of cases beyond nine months . |
| 6 | The disproportionately large numbers of recruits from Cheshire , and the martial reputation that the men from that county acquired , may have something to do with the successful recruiting drives organized by the Black Prince , who was Earl of Chester as well as Prince of Wales ; but it also , perhaps , reflected the problems of underemployment in a predominantly pastoral society . |
| 7 | Indeed , if quantum effects are neglected , the number of configurations would be infinite , since the black hole could have been formed by the collapse of a cloud of an indefinitely large number of particles of indefinitely low mass . |
| 8 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |
| 9 | Other test batteries result in still larger numbers of dimensions of intellectual variation . |
| 10 | Because of the rabbits and rodents , some of which do of course appear during the day , there are also large numbers of birds of prey . |
| 11 | The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact . |
| 12 | Coleman and her team studied over 4,000 blocks of flats and a slightly larger number of houses in two areas of London ( Southwark and Tower Hamlets ) and , for comparison , a council estate on the south-east side of Oxford , all in the context of a regard for flats and houses in many settings elsewhere . |
| 13 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 14 | A screen which will display clearly at least 80 characters per line and lower- as well as upper-case letters , and a full keyboard with a number of special purpose keys will be advisable for word processing A large amount of internal memory , a fast processor and high capacity external storage will be required for database applications , assuming that you have a fairly large number of records to be accommodated . |
| 15 | These comments are obviously most relevant for work forces where there is little tendency to move out , this is characteristic of a surprisingly large number of organisations in European countries and in Japan but much less so in the U.S.A. |
| 16 | increasingly large number of companies within the graphics , display and building industries . |
| 17 | In this sense , government growth means passing more laws which affect an increasingly large number of aspects of our lives . |
| 18 | The crew would in turn be commanded by an unusually large number of officers for a merchant ship , for , in addition to the commander , the ship might carry six mates , a surgeon , a purser , five midshipmen and a surgeon 's mate , any one of whose places would be of value to a politician seeking to build up an interest . |
| 19 | However , in 1983–4 , the only readily available message was that GPs were referring an unusually large number of patients with drugs problems to the two local psychiatric departments and the Regional Alcohol and Drug Dependency Unit ( as our analysis of case files later showed ) . |
| 20 | In order to plot ROC curves for individual films it is necessary to have a relatively large number of responses in each category . |
| 21 | Although development of scheduled air services from Eindhoven has reduced the need for Philair to transport relatively large numbers of employees on short sectors , it is still able to achieve its objectives by saving time , giving a quality service , providing a flexibility of movement , and offering its customers a personal service not easily achieved on public transport . |
| 22 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 23 | I would hope over the next few years we actually do move towards increasing towards that but I think we will have some severe difficulties , particularly with the planning department where large numbers of members of the public do visit the area . |
| 24 | I mean I think I 'd like to comment on the way some of the discussion was going earlier , because although it 's true that it 's largely men who are seen as creating the problem , there are certainly large numbers of men in positions of authority in the university who are very concerned about it , and who have been led to re-examine their own behaviour , and who now comment on how uncomfortable and constrained they themselves feel . |
| 25 | However , it would have to be a de minimis figure and not one inclined to exclude very large numbers of producers to the small number . |
| 26 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |
| 27 | Observers of eating behaviour have noted that people can take in very large numbers of calories in the form of liquids without noticeably diminishing their appetite for food at all . |
| 28 | Very large numbers of synonyms for even a few home addresses can make it impractical , however . |
| 29 | In relation to its national income the UK has had a disproportionately very large number of companies among the largest 500 in the world [ Prais , 1976 ] . |
| 30 | As we shall demonstrate in later chapters the word boundary ambiguities present in continuous speech , together with the increased number of homophones produced by the application of phonological rules for variations in pronunciation , relax the lexical constraints to the point where a very large number of paths through the lattice are equally plausible . |