Example sentences of "number of [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the creation of high quality artwork using material that may already exist in a number of forms and modifying it to suit the current need . |
| 2 | Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about , the number of generations that separate us from our earliest ancestors is certainly measured in the thousands of millions . |
| 3 | Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources . |
| 4 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 5 | However , it can be used if you can ‘ read ’ your card and work out the maximum number of tucks or loops you will be collecting . |
| 6 | I raced against Cameron Sharp a number of times and beat him , so it was galling to find a few weeks later that he was racing Carl Lewis on the Continent . |
| 7 | I mean they certainly rationalize the c the number of competencies and made them stopped du hopefully they do n't duplicate e one another as much as they did |
| 8 | Throughout the training programme we discussed the ways in which people are disabled — not by limited ability but by a number of barriers that keep them apart from the activities that the rest of their communities are involved in . |
| 9 | I 've worked at a number of occupations that put me into positions of possible danger . |
| 10 | Count the number of steps and record them here . |
| 11 | Once more , Huy had no opportunity to see out , but guessed from the number of twists and turns it made that they were taking a deliberately tortuous route . |
| 12 | There are no real limits , other than disk storage , to the number of sizes and styles you could produce using Fontware but it can be very frustrating to find that the size you want is n't there and have to go back to the font compiler to produce it . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've had a number of opportunities and taking them , particularly in the oil industry , has sometimes been a desperate gamble . ’ |
| 14 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 15 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 16 | The Bonn family financed the Bureau for a number of years and enabled it to recruit a small staff which laid the foundations for the development of the organisation into what it is to-day . |
| 17 | So it 's according to the number of people that use it , go to mass , how much you pay |
| 18 | We are committed to using the resources available to the health service to treat the maximum number of patients and to offer them the highest possible quality of health care . |
| 19 | In short , if one had assembled a number of publications and collated them , one would have had everything that the prosecution claimed was a state secret . |
| 20 | Seed-predators that hoard seeds may be effective as dispersal agents : in temperate regions , nutcrackers and jays ( Corvidae ) store large numbers of seeds and exploit them later , and death or ‘ forgetfulness ’ of the bird will result in successful dispersal . |