Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | One major theme , already mentioned in the previous chapter , is the search for co-ordination , a search that has figured prominently in a number of urban programmes . |
| 2 | The United Kingdom has spoken bilaterally to a number of countries about the non-proliferation treaty . |
| 3 | It has touched briefly on a number of activities which all contribute to better staff utilisation . |
| 4 | In practice the distribution between the various hospital and community services may have little objective foundation , having developed incrementally over a number of years . |
| 5 | Having looked briefly at a number of issues — under-fives , black children in care , adoption and fostering , and young offenders — and highlighted problems such as the disproportionate custody decisions concerning young black people , she challenges the current position on policy and practice . |
| 6 | This pattern seems to have emerged historically for a number of reasons . |
| 7 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
| 8 | This leavening of men and women who had worked abroad for a number of years provided a yeast which helped to bring about change within the island . |
| 9 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 10 | Research and theory on the origins of schizophrenia have developed simultaneously in a number of very different directions which can broadly be categorised as genetic , organic and psychosocial . |
| 11 | We have looked favourably at a number of their items in the past but over the last year or two they have acquired a growing respect for the estimable sound of their CD players . |
| 12 | weekend that we are arranging this summer as we have done annually for a number of years . |
| 13 | So the same kind of stark opposition grew up between orthodoxy and rationalism on the matter of miracles as on the authority of the Bible ; and the issues raised then have surfaced again in a number of forms since . |