Example sentences of "and a number of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A foundation deposit beneath a late Pre-Classic ( c. 300 B.C. — A.D. 300 ) platform at Nohmal , Belize , contained jadeite ear-plugs , a tubular bead and a number of pendants in the form of human heads . |
| 2 | The San Salvador Central Market occupation lasted for 12 days , from 11 to 23 December 1979 , and a number of hostages from among the administrative personnel were held in the offices . |
| 3 | There are also tips on what to look for in terms of quality , and a number of sources through which low cost software is available . |
| 4 | was promoted to the Chair in Accountancy and Finance and a number of vacancies in have been filled or are in the process of being filled . |
| 5 | There are extra Shift keys and a number of keys with arrows on them ( but there are no Shift-Lock keys to produce upper case letters and symbols ) . |
| 6 | They will provide facilities for accessing important data bases such as those produced by the Central Statistical Office and the Bank of England , the management of the user 's own data base , the display of data and a number of analyses including various regression methods , two and three stage least squares , full information maximum likelihood and Kalman filters . |
| 7 | And er there 'll be a number of questions on stress and a number of questions on leadership . |
| 8 | The group has manufacturing units in Swansea , Coventry , Melbourne ( Australia ) and Munich ( West Germany ) with sales offices in London , Edinburgh , Apeldoorn ( Holland ) and a number of agents in Australasia and South East Asia . |
| 9 | Despite a few institutional innovations in 1961 and a number of others in 1969 , the WTO remains an administrative , training and ( only since 1969 ) a consultative organisation . |
| 10 | Another successful firm interviewed said that , far from the IFI helping financially , they had actually done their business and a number of others in their enterprise park a lot of harm . |
| 11 | This is done by referring to two pieces of research commissioned by the CNAA Development Services Unit and a number of works on student learning . |
| 12 | Measures to help the business sector included the abolition of excise duties on cars , a cut in the price of unleaded petrol , and a number of simplifications in the taxation system . |
| 13 | Many women feel fitter and healthier during the time in which a baby is carried than at any other time and a number of tendencies towards minor illness vanish during the period . |
| 14 | Erm in connection with erm with reference to the York area housing strategy , again , there is a simple explanation , in that that that document was prepared before the current work on the City of York draft local plan , had progressed to a stage at which members had considered housing sites , and a number of sites in City Council ownership erm within the city , covering some four hundred dwellings have now been agreed by the City Council members as coming forward over the planned period for affordable housing , and in the case of two of those sites it actually requires sites to be taken out of use as public car parks , to bring them forward for development , and that is why the eleven hundred figure is actually reduced now to a seven hundred . |
| 15 | Open exhibition spaces will have to be air- conditioned and a number of experiments on how to achieve this are being carried out in the Bioclimatic Rotonda , located at the Expo office compound . |
| 16 | There were as many Probate Courts as there were dioceses , in addition to the Prerogative Courts of the two Archbishops , and a number of courts in places called Peculiars , places outside a bishop 's jurisdiction , and under a special ecclesiastical jurisdiction of their own . |
| 17 | ‘ But there is a great deal to be learnt and a number of players like Border , the Waugh brothers , Greg Chappell and Tom Moody really gained a great deal from playing county cricket . ’ |
| 18 | erm last year we introduced a Home Care charge , based on attendance allowance , and a number of families of elderly people got in touch with me and they 're were obviously particular reasons why the charge could n't be fairly levied to them . |
| 19 | It is known in the House that the reality is a choice between many hours in Committee characterised by filibuster and slow progress , and a number of hours in Committee in which we make reasonable progress . |
| 20 | I have studied various maps of the county and a number of documents without being able to pin-point the location of this manor , but will try to place it by the clues I have been able to deduce . |
| 21 | MGM , Fox , Warner and RKO made a substantial number of films out of London , many of them spectaculars rather than authentically British productions , and a number of producers like Albert ( ‘ Cubby ’ ) Broccoli and Sam Spiegel moved from America to the UK . |
| 22 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 23 | However , on being established , boards were faced with a mass of information to digest , and a number of tasks in relation to setting up the board , for example , agenda setting , standing orders , the board budget and ordering of equipment and stationery . |
| 24 | Consequently , from the authorities to which I have referred above and a number of decisions in other common law jurisdictions which we have been invited to consider , I have come to the conclusion that there is no difference in principle between a trading company and a non-trading corporation for the purposes of suing in tort , including the tort of defamation . |
| 25 | Also present was the Chairman and a number of members of the Swiss Branch who paraded their Branch Standard . |
| 26 | I mean there 's a strong Music Department here and we have a number of music students who come into the chorus for the while that they 're in the university — they often sing in the university choir , I think , as well and play in the orchestra , or perhaps the Meeting House Choir , and a number of members of faculty , I think , as well sing with us . |
| 27 | The recycling scheme is run by the non-profit making Save-a-Cup Recycling Company which was set up by a group of plastic cup manufacturers and a number of companies in the UK vending and foodservice industries just over a year ago . |
| 28 | These included regulations covering the registration of political parties and a number of amendments to the Constitution which were reported to include the implementation of a semi-presidential regime , with executive powers vested in a prime minister . |
| 29 | The advice on how to put planning for development into practice can be supported by the experiences shared by the Council and a number of bodies over the last three years . |
| 30 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |