Example sentences of "in a number of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | With our rapid geographical expansion in South East Asia , there were opportunities for UK based staff to assist in a number of areas in Malaysia , Singapore and Indonesia and staff from Wimpol Inc ventured into West Africa in preparation for this year 's work . |
| 2 | Crisis intervention teams have developed as a part of statutory services in a number of areas in Britain . |
| 3 | Table 7.3 shows the responsible person specified in a number of contracts in common use . |
| 4 | The volume of complaint about the difficulties encountered by pedestrians is certainly high and has been recorded in a number of surveys in recent years . |
| 5 | Although these are specialised positions , each team member needs to be flexible enough to work in a number of projects in different areas . |
| 6 | Arcading , using round arches , is a popular feature in Italian Romanesque buildings but it is always decorative in its application except in a number of instances in northern Italy . |
| 7 | His knowledge of coalmining and the geology of the north of England coalfields was now such that his assistance was frequently called upon by mine owners and speculators , and he acquired interests in a number of mines in the area . |
| 8 | When the phoneme occurs between vowels it is sometimes pronounced as a ‘ tap ’ ( the tongue blade strikes the alveolar ridge sharply , producing a very brief voiced plosive : the phonetic symbol is ; this is very common in American English , and is also found in a number of accents in England : think of a typical American pronunciation of ‘ getting better ’ [ ] . |
| 9 | Between 1888 and 1900 Aglen served in a number of posts in Peking , Amoy , Canton , and Tientsin ; in 1897 he was appointed to the rank of commissioner ; and shortly after the Boxer rising broke out in 1900 he was posted to Shanghai as officiating inspector-general while Hart was a refugee in the British legation under siege in Peking . |
| 10 | Of the 24,170 posts in England , the northern region has so far received about 2,500 , including 855 with the Inland Revenue in Sunderland , Middlesbrough and Washington and 1,205 posts in a number of departments in Newcastle . |
| 11 | Among dock , river and waterside workers such a movement took place in a number of ports in the 1870s and culminated in the great Liverpool dock strike of 1879 . |
| 12 | The questionnaire was piloted in a number of institutions in Scotland in May 1985 , and was sent out in final form in July 1985 to every state higher education institution in the UK offering teacher education courses . |
| 13 | Compagnie Generale des Eaux SA said on Friday that its wholly-owned General Cable Ltd unit has acquired South Yorkshire Cablevision Ltd from Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's Pactel Cable UK Ltd for an undisclosed sum : South Yorkshire Cablevision holds cable TV franchises in Doncaster and Rotherham , passing 192,000 homes and General Cable already has 100,000 cable TV and telephone subscribers in a number of franchises in Britain ; it is very active in Bradford and plans to start work by the end of the year linking Sheffield subscribers . |
| 14 | This was the case in a number of countries in our study , including Indonesia , Israel , the Philippines , and Uganda . |
| 15 | The strongest growth of total employment was reported by the USSR , in Scandinavia ( which has the highest proportion of its population at work ) , and in a number of countries in central and eastern Europe such as Austria , Yugoslavia and Romania ( a broadly similar pattern is evident for manufacturing employment ) . |
| 16 | The appellant was concerned with another youth aged 17 in a number of incidents in which five different people were approached in the street , threatened with violence and robbed in two cases of small sums of money . |
| 17 | Despite such precautions , early on May 22 All-India Radio started broadcasting reports of outbreaks of violence in a number of states in which up to 11 people died . |
| 18 | Contact with mariners from China from before Ar ) 300 led to trade in a number of commodities in the Asiatic tropics , notably resins , birds ' nests , poisons , medicines , latex , pelts , ivory and rhinoceros horn as well as rattans . |
| 19 | At first this was interpreted as a separate medusa-like form , but it appears in a number of specimens in just such a position and some now think that it may have been a holdfast . |
| 20 | In a number of cases in England defendants have conceded a liability for the consequences of injury before birth : Williams v. Luff , The Times , 13 February 1978 ; Whitehouse v. Jordan [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 246 ; McKay v. Essex Area Health Authority [ 1982 ] Q.B . |
| 21 | One of the other advantages of this scheme is that the student erm spends some months each year in the company , and in a number of cases in the past this has led to the student erm getting a job when he leaves . |
| 22 | ‘ I get satisfaction from being able to be involved in a number of activities in the part of the world where |
| 23 | Staff of the Enterprise Centre have been involved in a number of activities in SEHE . |
| 24 | Finance director , Fred Brown and chief executive John Holloway are named by Mr Bell as being involved in a number of activities in other companies incompatible with their new positions in Teesside Holdings . |
| 25 | In a number of dialects in northern England and peripherally in southern Scotland ( J. Milroy , 1982c ) there is a high incidence of noticeably ‘ clear ’ ( palatal ) variants of /l/ , chiefly in pre-vocalic syllable-initial position , but also in other positions . |
| 26 | In Byelorussia on April 3 strikes broke out spontaneously in a number of factories in the capital , Minsk , in support of higher wages to offset the price rises . |
| 27 | In a number of elections in the Irish Republic both Fine Gael and Labour , its much weaker partner , have benefited thus : each has received votes transferred from the other as being surplus to the quota of candidates elected or , much more commonly , as being useless to candidates eliminated . |
| 28 | The masks are only the latest in a number of measures in the effort to eliminate deaths by tiger attacks . |
| 29 | Donald joined the Bank in Carnoustie and served in a number of branches in Dundee and Perth before moving to Head Office in 1965 . |
| 30 | The Thatcher factor will be relevant in a number of seats in the south of England . |