Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] [noun pl] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agreement to buy seventy-two new pubs from Inntreprenuer Estates Limited will bring the total number of Morland pubs to just under four hundred . |
| 2 | The agreement to buy seventy-two new pubs from Inntreprenuer Estates Limited will bring the total number of Morland pubs to just under four hundred . |
| 3 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 4 | Work a number of test pieces before finally deciding on the tension you are going to use and sample . |
| 5 | The number of manufacturing plants with more than 30 workers had risen by two-thirds . |
| 6 | Joanna Baker , the Festival 's director of marketing and public affairs , spoke to a number of design houses before finally giving a brief to the Edinburgh firm of McIlroy Coates . |
| 7 | But the north of England , Yorkshire and Humberside fared significantly worse with increases in the number of business failures of over 10 per cent . |
| 8 | Never mind that numbers waiting for less than a year have risen , bringing the total number on waiting lists to almost a million — a new record high . |