Example sentences of "number of [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US Congress the House banking committee , chaired by Henry Gonzalez , was one of a number of committees now investigating the question of why the US government 's Commodity Credit Corp . |
| 2 | The number of matings strongly influences the reproductive success of a male , but not of a female . |
| 3 | The number of students nationally obtaining the CNAA 's Diploma of Higher Education in 1977 was only 293 , of whom approximately half transferred to ‘ linked ’ or ‘ top-up ’ courses in the same institution . |
| 4 | When the islands were first settled , the population began to increase rapidly and the number of inhabitants soon exceeded the resources , prompting emigration to other Portuguese lands . |
| 5 | The large number of studies also gives the findings potentially greater generalisability . |
| 6 | A number of brewers now use a device called a cask breather on low volume beers to prolong their life . |
| 7 | A large number of products already incorporates the marks , and all new products , or those with redesigned packaging , will now display them . |
| 8 | In order to construct an arbitrage transaction where the number of futures exactly offsets the basket of shares in the index , it is necessary to be able to hold shares or futures in fractional quantities , which is not possible . |
| 9 | The larger the number of firms already supplying a market and the more difficult it is for them to collude , the more competition there is likely to be . |
| 10 | Probably the most pleasing aspect is the number of families now taking an active part in the rally scene , as this can only bode well for the future of metal detecting in this country . |
| 11 | An increasing number of builders now offer a service of drawing and submitting plans , although an architect may be more creative . |
| 12 | The thresholds for medium companies are increased to not more than £11.2m for turnover and not more than £5.6m for the balance sheet total ( the number of employees also remains the same at an average of 250 ) . |
| 13 | At least 300 Muslims were butchered in this way ; an equal number of Christians probably met the same fate . |
| 14 | A number of churches here survived the Turkish occupation , but were lost in the nineteenth century when the capital of the newly independent Greece was re-organised and planned on broad lines . |
| 15 | courses are also such that a substantial number of candidates never make the grade . |
| 16 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 17 | But the number of applicants far outweighed the spaces available . |
| 18 | A number of nations now have the technology to spot , from space , objects as small as 2 metres across . |
| 19 | The US administration claimed that the recent dramatic increase in the numbers of refugees far exceeded the total of 12,500 who could be accommodated at Guantánamo . |
| 20 | Over recent years imports and exports have been vested with great political and cultural-ideological significance , and it is very likely that increasing numbers of consumers now register the country of origin of what they are buying , and producers now register the destination of what they are producing , and this knowledge may affect their actions . |