Example sentences of "number of [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past we have held a number of fund-raising events in the area . |
| 2 | Anthony Kasozi 's work as ACET 's Director in uganda has recently received financial support form Tear Fund which has enabled him , together with ACET General Manager , Maurice Adams , to identify a number of church-based projects for the coming year . |
| 3 | A number of respectable gentlemen in the town and neighbourhood of Manchester , being desirous that this plan shall include the whole of the township of Manchester and Salford , and as much of the adjoining townships , as will fall within that square , which will be formed from the extensions of the said two townships , Mr. Green hopes that this will be a sufficient apology for advancing the subscription to one guinea each copy . ’ |
| 4 | The number of DP thymocytes was calculated by multiplying the number of total thymocytes with the percentage of DP thymocytes . |
| 5 | There are a number of serious gaps between the educational needs of rural children and the existing provisions of formal educational systems . |
| 6 | There had been a lull in activity after a number of serious setbacks in the city for the terrorist organisation . |
| 7 | In the meantime , we will conclude by drawing attention to a number of serious weaknesses in the strategy on which it is based . |
| 8 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 9 | Between the evening of Friday 6 March and Sunday 8 March a thief stole a number of Near-Eastern items of the ninth to second centuries BC from the Draper 's Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum . |
| 10 | Tesco will offer its highest number of multi-save items along the lines of ‘ buy two , get one free ’ . |
| 11 | Confirmation is found in the increase of coarser sands and number of conglomeratic intervals towards the south within the alluvial fans . |
| 12 | Readers are directed to a number of standard texts on the subject ( Hudson 1971 ; FAO 1977a ; Morgan 1979 ; Webster & Wilson 1980 ) . |
| 13 | Lenders apply a number of standard techniques to the assessment of a project where an established company is the borrower , the lender will study the published accounts |
| 14 | The unearthing of the extent of sexual abuse of children has shocked many people in a number of western countries during the 1980s . |
| 15 | Gender , Class and Education , a collection edited by Stephen Walker and Len Barton ( 1983 ) , contains a number of useful articles on the interaction between class and gender in education and , in particular , has an interesting discussion by Madeleine Arnot of the feminist issues surrounding co-education and single sex schooling — an issue which , for reasons of space , I have not been able to refer to in this section . |
| 16 | Cloud-cover problems will diminish the number of useful images from the 20–22 per year that are theoretically possible , but even so the monitoring of surface phenomena that change during the year ( such as agricultural crops and natural vegetation ) or which change over the years ( for example the extent of the built-up areas of cities or the extent of forest cover ) is possible . |
| 17 | A connoisseur of French and Italian drawings , Jacob Bean managed to double the number of European drawings in the collection to more than 4,000 , making it one of the largest and most distinguished in the States . |
| 18 | ‘ We are talking to a small number of selected companies with the aim of making an acquisition , a partial acquisition or an alliance , ’ says Xavier Ribas , EDS director of marketing for southern Europe . |
| 19 | The total number of representative points in the system is unchanged , so these circles consist of closely-spaces points that have ‘ condensed ’ from forbidden parts of k -space onto the nearest circle as the strength of the magnetic field increases . |
| 20 | They are required by the Law Society 's Training Regulations to provide experience in articles in a number of recognised areas of the law to give you the training necessary to qualify as a solicitor . |
| 21 | It says that in the fourth quarter of 1991 , there was a threefold increase in the number of stolen cars in the second hand market compared with a year earlier . |
| 22 | But erm on the other hand we do actually have empty spaces in our old people 's homes , so whilst you will have people who may have to move a bit , we 're not actually reducing the number of occupied beds in the whole old person 's home sector |
| 23 | Although the art of painting was not as well developed as architecture and sculpture , there were , nevertheless , a number of Slav artists from the Adriatic coastlands who displayed considerable talent and whose works are to be found in church frescoes and other paintings on both the Italian and eastern shores . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Salisbury ( Mr. Key ) made a number of unscheduled statements in the debate . |
| 25 | The large number of displaced terranes in the North American Cordillera are considered by Coney et al. |
| 26 | However , pregnant girls gave the least number of alternative solutions to the problems , and were least competent at describing the steps an imaginary protagonist should take to achieve her aims in five stories . |
| 27 | the market circumstances are such that there are a number of alternative buildings in the locality that could suit their company ; |
| 28 | There had been a number of Japanese businessmen in the town whose interests appear also to have been ‘ other than commercial ’ . |
| 29 | The Festival will be screening a number of Japanese films at the Triangle and MAC , see programme for details . |
| 30 | It is certainly encouraging that parents , not government , are choosing to expand the number of integrated schools in the Province . |