Example sentences of "great [noun sg] of [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midlands has the greatest concentration of motorways in the country — 350 miles which last year witnessed nearly a thousand serious or fatal accidents , |
| 2 | The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise . |
| 3 | The great variety of creatures in the Burgess Shales is a reminder of how incomplete our knowledge is of all fossil faunas . |
| 4 | The great majority of companies in the construction industry are companies limited by shares , to which this chapter refers . |
| 5 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 6 | It is hardly surprising that the great majority of accidents in the Alps occur during descent . |
| 7 | Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed . |
| 8 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 9 | To a tenth-century man or woman ( and Karl Leyser has shown the great importance of nunneries in the aristocratic social order of tenth-century Saxony ) , as to a modern monk or nun , the raison d'être of monasteries was their communal worship , their liturgy . |
| 10 | ‘ The Pacific Ocean , its shores , its islands , ’ he said , ‘ will become the great theatre of events in the world 's hereafter … henceforth European commerce , European thought and European connections , although becoming more intimate , will nevertheless sink in importance. , |
| 11 | The Grey Mountains divide the Empire from Bretonnia , the other great realm of Men in the Old World . |
| 12 | There are a great number of adherents in the highlands . |
| 13 | There was a great number of rabbits in the place — many more than he was bringing . |
| 14 | There are a great number of anomalies in the accounts he gave . |
| 15 | On Nov. 1 the IDA , as the party with the greatest number of seats in the National Assembly , unanimously endorsed Sharif as Prime Minister , the first Punjabi to hold this office . |
| 16 | The greater proportion of boys in the sample reflected more high scoring boys than girls being in the lower mathematics sets in the schools working with the project . |
| 17 | Tei and Owen provide no breakdown of their data in terms of the angular separation between adapting and test stimuli on their " different " trials so it is net possible to see whether adaptation is effective over a greater range of orientations in the LVF compared to the RVF . |
| 18 | But he said it was a temporary blip arising from greater throughput of cases in the civil courts ; increased efficiency at the Scottish Legal Aid Board and solicitors submitting their accounts more speedily because of the recession . |
| 19 | Their light-hearted attitude balances the greater seriousness of events in The Three Commanders , for they still scamper into adventure as their respective ships operate against slave-traders off the African coast and when they carry troops and fight battles off the Turkish coast during the Crimean War . |
| 20 | Not the least among these changes is the greater participation of women in the labour market and their increased career expectations . |
| 21 | It is solicitors , not barristers , who conduct much the greater number of cases in the lesser courts — county courts and magistrates ' courts . |
| 22 | Thus , while the far greater number of ratepayers in the open villages meant that there was no disincentive to build houses , those that were built quickly became decrepit rural slums . |