Example sentences of "[det] number of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he spent a comparatively few number of years as a painter , it is for his paintings that his name is known worldwide . |
| 2 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 3 | Tony Geraghty twice mentions the disappearance of Leslie 's aircraft , and the reader will realise from the context in which Geraghty discusses this incident that a loss of this number of men from a small unit was a serious matter . |
| 4 | There ca n't be that number of snipe in the whole of Lewis let alone Barvas Estate , surely ? |
| 5 | erm I think we 're be able to do all the counts with that number of people including the St David 's roundabout and |
| 6 | There are , in fact , infinitely many other families of homoclinic orbits winding any number of times around the z-axis . |
| 7 | LCH may open any number of accounts in a clearing member 's name , and the member may designate one or more of them as client accounts . |
| 8 | The model should make it through the inverted position , but will lose lots of speed in the process which can cause any number of effects during the inverted climb phase . |
| 9 | At this point within this traditional interpretation of the principles of liberalism , any number of definitions of the special exercise of choice thrive . |
| 10 | The funeral was now becoming a public display of private wealth — a statement of status — rather than a dignified journey to the grave , and there were any number of tradesmen in the private sector eager to cater for the demand and , thereby , to profit from it . |
| 11 | Before the emergence of the Teds there had been any number of alarms from the 1940s onwards about street violence , robbery attacks , ‘ Blitz kids ’ and ‘ cosh boys ’ . |
| 12 | Whether " a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " is all that is required is quite possibly true but there may be any number of blocks in the road towards that manner of living . |
| 13 | Meikle [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 801 , where it had been made clear that prosecutors are fully entitled to bring any number of offences against a single defendant at different times and so cause to be in existence a number of custody time limits not coinciding wholly with one another . |
| 14 | All the calculations carried out so far have assumed that it is possible to allocate any number of records to a given address . |
| 15 | Once you really start to think of the components that can be changed in a room without too much ado you can come up with any number of ideas for a change of style , or more important , for adding style where none existed before . |
| 16 | Quantity This system allows the drafter to use any number of sub-divisions within a clause : a sub-clause can be further sub-divided into paragraphs as follows : 8 . |
| 17 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 18 | Another contributor agreed that it was possible to trot out any number of excuses for the lack of jobs , such as the political unrest ; but unemployment existed in West Belfast before the political unrest . |
| 19 | His first of three wives , Brooke Hayward , recently described his Oscar-nominated performance as a drug-dealing gangster in Blue Velvet as ‘ the way you would have seen Dennis behaving any number of nights in the sixties ’ . |
| 20 | Paykel ( 1979 ) describes his research in New Haven in which the life experiences of 185 depressed patients receiving hospital treatment were compared with the experiences of a random sample of the same number of adults in the general population over a six month period . |
| 21 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 22 | Or it may be the elementary idea of putting the same number of matches into a matchbox ( it used to be 50 ) . |
| 23 | It might be thought that this was an essential part of the cuckoo 's deception — that by leaving the same number of eggs in the nest , the cuckoo might fool the host bird into thinking that nothing had happened . |
| 24 | As with all my ablutions , the shave follows a definite and predetermined pattern ; I take the same number of strokes of the same length in the same sequence each morning . |
| 25 | Isotopes of an element have the same number of protons in the nucleus — and hence the same chemical properties — but different numbers of neutrons , and thus have slightly different masses . |
| 26 | The concept of equality of outcomes does not mean that each person obtains the same number of marks in the same number of examinations , but that a representative individual of any group has the same probability of success as a representative individual of any other group . |
| 27 | In 1993 Nissan 's factory at Washington , Tyne and Wear , will produce the same number of cars with a total workforce , including white-collar , managerial and support staff of 3,800 . |
| 28 | He used it to explain how different chemical compounds may contain the same elements in the same proportions — ‘ isomerism ’ — because their atoms are differently arranged , and how different substances may have the same crystalline form — ‘ isomorphism ’ — because they have the same number of atoms in the same arrangement . |