Example sentences of "[prep] a number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fillis fed sugar and carrots to horses belonging to other people , and was convinced that the horses lacked affection for their owners because they started whinnying to him after a number of visits with the food . |
| 2 | Earlier , Det Sgt John Clark had said he had been involved in meetings with other police forces all over the country after a number of raids on TSB branches in which cash dispensers were forced open using oxy-acetylene equipment . |
| 3 | The building was being watched by police after a number of raids in the area . |
| 4 | British Rail has spent fifteen million pounds to make doors on high-speed trains more secure after a number of deaths of passengers falling-out . |
| 5 | However , after a number of years of operation , the APU does not appear to have been conspicuous in its success : most of the background measures are of little use , and there are difficulties in relevant measures . |
| 6 | At one time boundaries were , in the main , marked by a white line , and it was only after a number of years of requesting the TCCB that in matches organised by them a rope be used to denote the boundary that this regulation was implemented , if my memory serves me correctly , for the 1983 season . |
| 7 | Only then may the supplier 's product be classified as satisfactory , and , perhaps after a number of years of further product tests have elapsed , the supplier may be added to the list of recognised contractors . |
| 8 | Therefore , after a number of years of operation , regular service and preventative maintenance , it can become increasingly difficult to retain peak performance and preserve the capital value of this expensive asset . |
| 9 | Seabird colonies in the Shetland Isles are recording significant breeding successes after a number of years of declining numbers . |
| 10 | After a number of years on tour with her husband , in Europe , the near East , South Africa and the Argentine , she returned to Broadway in the mid-1930s . |
| 11 | Alun Morgan and Dr Jon Saunders of the department of genetics and microbiology at the University of Liverpool , working with Dr Roger Pickup of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology , Windermere , form one of a number of groups of scientists developing techniques to spot a GEM . |
| 12 | Until well into the nineteenth century the nation 's coalminers were not regarded as a race apart , living and working in closely-knit communities dominated by the colliery 's winding gear and huge , ugly muck stacks , but merely as one of a number of groups of village craftsmen and labourers . |
| 13 | Focusing upon the development and activities of a number of groups in contrasting counties , the study pays close attention to their social composition , ideology and role in attempting to ensure that a consensus can develop around the provisions of the Act . |
| 14 | Some of it , notably parts of the two reports from the ACPS chimed with , although were not attributable to , the political beliefs of a number of Conservatives on the back benches in the House of Commons . |
| 15 | Working singly , or often in pairs , the programs allow for the development of a number of skills including social skills , such as cooperation , discussion ( e.g. on content or amendments ) . |
| 16 | A comparison of the prospectuses for 1980–81 and 1986–87 of a number of institutions for this study suggested that , contrary to the arthritic stereotype purveyed sometimes by the press and others who should know better , degree provision in higher education is by no means static . |
| 17 | The strategy finally agreed consisted of a number of actions to be taken progressively , ie : |
| 18 | The location of cemeteries alone near the boundaries might be easily explained , but the accumulating evidence from excavated settlements strongly suggests that many had an adjacent cemetery ( Figure 2.8 ) and the excavation of a number of cemeteries in recent years has indicated the presence of a nearby settlement up to 0.5 km away . |
| 19 | DG-11 , the EC 's Environment Directorate , has been monitoring the development of a number of schemes by cities such as Amsterdam and Strasbourg to curb city centre driving . |
| 20 | At the same time three key ministers and a prominent MNSD official were dismissed because of their responsibility for austerity plans which led to student protests and the killing of a number of students at a demonstration [ see p. 37308 ] . |
| 21 | The health care issue is one of a number of complaints to the Home Office about the running of the Wolds — the first prison in Britain to be run privately by Group 4 Remand Services . |
| 22 | Problem solving/minimisation is a highly iterative process and consists of a number of stages from problem sensed to problem overcome . |
| 23 | The exercise involved the generation of a number of options including a growth in the budget , standstill and a re-ordering of priorities . |
| 24 | While all kadis were appointed by the state and received allowances , for example , certainly in the period under review only the most important of the muftis received official appointments or salaries ; and indeed , even the salary of the Mufti of Istanbul , until the very end of the period , was considerably smaller than the allowances ( to say nothing of the income ) of a number of kadis over whom he clearly took precedence , the pattern possibly having been established by the perhaps consciously modest demands made by Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 25 | If ownership of a majority of the shares of the employing company , whether the employer is a holding company or only one of a number of subsidiaries in a group of companies , falls into new hands , the employees of that company come under the control of the new owners of the company , whether they consent to that development or not . |
| 26 | A LEADING environmental scientist — who has contributed to several television documentaries on green issues — today called on the Department of Marine in Dublin to investigate the mysterious deaths of a number of swans at Mulroy Bay in Co Donegal . |
| 27 | Althusser 's influence declined in France after 1968 , partly as a result of the role played by the PCF , of which Althusser was a member , in the events of May 1968 , and partly as an effect of a number of critiques of his work , some of them by Althusser himself . |
| 28 | Caterers , hoteliers , innkeepers and restaurateurs may have recourse to any one of a number of courts for a multiplicity of reasons ; the following are those which they are most likely to use . |
| 29 | Reason and his colleagues have developed a questionnaire which investigates the frequency of a number of behaviours among normal drivers . |
| 30 | But the authorities of the cat world do seem to have their eyes firmly fixed on possible dangers , and we can hope for a much greater restraint than has existed in the case of a number of breeds of dog . |