Example sentences of "a number [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 In Frankfurt , for example , the Bundesbank is protected by barriers with armed police , there have been a number of terrorist kidnappings of leading business figures and many top bankers and others are protected by personal bodyguards .
2 A number of modification versions of the modules were entered into LIFESPAN by the authorised user .
3 The Times Higher Education Supplement has carried out a number of peer reviews of UK University Departments over the years .
4 At the end of October Vo Van Kiet visited a number of member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) , the first such tour since 1978 .
5 umbrella archives comprising a number of specialist collections of data .
6 We tackle this question by looking first , in Chapter 3 , at a number of case studies of work situations where new technology is being used , taking note of the experiences about effects on skill reported there .
7 The data that were obtained resulted in a number of case studies of teacher job interviews .
8 My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared .
9 Through the influence of Cromwell and the new Archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Cranmer , the 1530s witnessed a number of reform initiatives of this nature .
10 These relationships were probably strengthened by the fact that a number of family relations of senior politicians were employed by foreign mining companies .
11 A number of tape collections of oral history material from communities in Scotland provides valuable source material for research .
12 We will illustrate the problem using a number of summary measures of the state of the firm typically used by analysts .
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