Example sentences of "a number [prep] [noun] and [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By September 1982 the school could witness what was in effect the opening of a new library , staffed from a number of sources and constituting a pleasant and accessible learning environment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean for only five years , between 1984 and 1989 , but besides organising a number of exhibitions and doing all the other things that Keepers do , he managed — quite extraordinarily — to produce this massive three-volume catalogue of the 785 later sculptures then under his care . |
| 5 | Nine or ten motar bombs exploded in the street outside killing a number of children and injuring others . |
| 6 | The whole House will want to congratulate the British miners on doing everything that has been asked of them over a number of years and achieving that massive increase in productivity . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had a number of opportunities and taking them , particularly in the oil industry , has sometimes been a desperate gamble . ’ |
| 8 | It 's a service which only Rentokil could offer and supply , with our broad range of experience and skills across a number of hygiene and cleaning activities . ’ |