Example sentences of "a number [prep] [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grosvenor family ( now holders of the dukedom of Westminster ) is of ancient lineage ( the Scrope versus Grosvenor controversy of the late fourteenth century is a pertinent study ) , and , over the ages , members have held estates in a number of counties and participated in governmental matters in many localities . |
| 2 | Marcus ( 1990b ) reports that a group from IBM informally surveyed a number of parsers that claimed to be ‘ broad coverage ’ . |
| 3 | Throughout the 1960s , a number of surveys that highlighted the growing problem of low income and poverty amongst pensioners were carried out . |
| 4 | The point was , however , that Cumberbatch and Bates had named a number of video-nasties that did not in fact exist , and yet the children claimed that they had seen them . |
| 5 | Hearst published a number of newspapers and had refused to bargain collectively with a union representing newsboys who distributed the papers on the streets . |
| 6 | During 1992 the Group completed a number of acquisitions and invested further on additions to tangible fixed assets . |
| 7 | Now , your agency creative team has worked on a number of concepts and put up campaigns for all of them : the beneficial effect on the skin of natural ingredients ; the sheer charm of the packs on the dressing table ; the ease and delight of using such products . |
| 8 | He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them . |
| 9 | He had invested his money in a number of schemes that required his attention , and his days seemed pretty full to her untrained eyes . |
| 10 | He 's done extremely well , and he has a number of reports and examined every possible area . |
| 11 | My partner then called out a number of articles and asked if they were the chosen one . |
| 12 | The research has given rise to a series of more or less operational online catalogues , three fairly lengthy reports and a number of articles and published and unpublished talks . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman can hardly refer to such a body as having the kind of authority with which he seeks to imbue it when it disagreed on a number of matters and failed to address any of the ones that really matter . |
| 14 | Mr Beecham placed the last sheet of stiff paper on top of a number of others and raised his gaze again to Joe , who was sitting opposite to him , and continued , ‘ There is no obstacle to your inheritance , as I can see . |
| 15 | I mean I think it 's , I mean I I have personally asked this question a number of times and pressed for everybody to be paid properly in inverted commas , I E monthly , but this is an assumption about a certain lifestyle and a certain way of budgeting which er I do n't think we have necessarily the right or , you know it 's not necessarily our |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At the entrance to the Hall was a superb display of photographs and a number of items that had survived the raids . |
| 18 | Enterprise zones originated in a number of ideas that began to amalgamate towards the end of the 1970s . |
| 19 | Clearly he has listened at a number of keyholes and collected the right gossip . |
| 20 | He had been landlord of the village inn for a number of years and had developed the publicans ' inborn instinct for recognising potential trouble . |
| 21 | He was chairman of the Methodist College Board of Governors for a number of years and died in 1938 . |
| 22 | John and his partner Joseph Cooper ran the mill for a number of years and prospered , but the Coopers ' dependence on export was their ultimate downfall , as trade fluctuated during the French wars . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 25 | The appellant and two accomplices broke into a number of cars and stole various objects from them . |
| 26 | In 1976 , Henry Blake published the first of a number of books that showed that he had studied the horse 's mind in depth . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | These contained a number of allegations that had never been raised with her at all . |
| 29 | Er I even visit a number of homes and delivered their sick money . |
| 30 | The English were blamed , and yet Darien was one of a number of events that convinced the Lowland Scots that they should try to reach better terms with England before attempting to become independent ; in 1707 England and Scotland became united with a single government and a single Parliament , and one of the terms of the Union was that the Darien investors should be reimbursed for their losses . |