Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] [Wh pn] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a number of students who said they started to read it and could n't put it down . |
| 2 | Like as not he would n't even recognize her , and he 'd made it clear she was merely one of a number of girls who accommodated him . |
| 3 | The number of women who claim they drink moderately — consuming between eight and 14 units a week — has risen by 31 per cent since 1978 , with half that increase taking place over the last eight years . |
| 4 | ‘ Gary was one of a number of players who impressed me and I 'm delighted to have got him , ’ said Linfield manager , Trevor Anderson . |
| 5 | A number of callers who believed they had recently seen the man telephoned the London headquarters after the programme and several called the Durham police headquarters at Akeley Heads . |
| 6 | For those who are familiar with Lewis 's literary persona , as for the much smaller number of people who knew him in life , his acceptance of an orthodox Christian position seems in an almost literal sense fitting . |
| 7 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 8 | you do n't er insure a building according to its size now but according to the number of people who use it . |
| 9 | I mean the Festival box-office staff and the unseen technical staff and — well , in short , the Festival would have collapsed long ago , had it not been for a wonderfully large number of people who join us year after year — just because they love the Festival and want to do their best for it , and work all hours for it . |
| 10 | Julia was touched by the number of people who congratulated her on her recovery as she made her way with her cushion to her allotted seat at the end of the press benches , and gave several brief accounts of her illness to people who asked . |
| 11 | Some officers seem to be unaware that in terms of the number of people who do it , cycling 's second only to walking . |
| 12 | ‘ The real problem to be tackled is inadequate powers for the police and the public being messed about by the court system , as well as an escalation of the number of people who think they can get away with crime , ’ said Mr Marwick . |
| 13 | Of course , there also appear to have been a good number of people who regarded her as an eccentric or a ‘ mope ’ . |
| 14 | The benefit for Cornhill was its ‘ awareness level ’ ( the number of people who mentioned it when asked to name an insurance company ) , which shot up from 2 per cent in 1977 to 17 per cent in 1981 . |
| 15 | The case of the chainmaking trade was particularly acute because of the large numbers of women who entered it during the late 1870s from nailmaking . |
| 16 | It 's hard for any government to persist unless there are considerable numbers of people who regard it as legitimate , but legitimacy changes also , and if you make erm drastic mistakes you wo n't be re-elected like President Hoover . |