Example sentences of "a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home care Coordinator , Margaret Gillies , currently has a team of 20 volunteers from a variety of churches providing practical help to a number of clients already referred . |
| 2 | Anthony Kasozi 's work as ACET 's Director in uganda has recently received financial support form Tear Fund which has enabled him , together with ACET General Manager , Maurice Adams , to identify a number of church-based projects for the coming year . |
| 3 | Since you are agreeing to make regular payments over a number of years , it is probably easier for you to pay by Banker 's Order or Direct Debit Mandate when the payments will automatically be made from your bank account . |
| 4 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 5 | A new ‘ Anti-Terror Law ’ , which combines a number of new provisions for the investigation and trial of persons suspected of acts of political violence or association with violent political opposition groups , was approved by President Ozal on 17 April . |
| 6 | Most of those released are non-political prisoners convicted of criminal offences , but a number of prisoners of conscience will also be released . |
| 7 | An AI mission to Argentina in November 1976 , led by Lord Avebury , was followed everywhere by twenty plainclothes policemen who questioned , intimidated and even detained a number of people whom they meet . |
| 8 | Dr Manorani spoke at a number of Amnesty meetings last autumn . |
| 9 | A number of the officers arrested were executed almost immediately . |
| 10 | In a number of places Pilinski completely misunderstood the ‘ indications ’ of the original . ’ |
| 11 | Such caution is prudent in a business where errors of judgement can be extremely expensive ; at least the reader of an auction catalogue knows clearly what view has been taken by the cataloguer on a number of questions . |
| 12 | Luckily for the curious , this historical sideline can be followed up in a number of publications , both about individuals and institutions . |
| 13 | The variations and exceptions to these brief generalised statements can be found in a number of books , some by investigative outsiders , some in memoirs by dealers and others interested in the market . |
| 14 | Artists who group together for financial reasons may choose a name which is no more explanatory than a number or numbers . |
| 15 | Sometimes a number conceals a genuinely significant programme , such as the Group of Seven had in Canada . |
| 16 | There are a number of other ways in which the work could |
| 17 | In London , where he spent a number of years , he had gained a reputation as a crook and as a threatener of whites and defender of the coloured-immigrant population . |
| 18 | Hawksmoor speaks the words of romantic duality , and is in a number of ways a double book . |
| 19 | A little earlier , a view of Eliot 's has been paraphrased : that ‘ there is no ‘ truth ’ to be found ’ in the world , ‘ only a number of styles and interpretations — one laid upon the other in an endless and apparently meaningless process ’ . |
| 20 | But it was clear , and is clearer still in retrospect , that on a number of occasions an old decorum had been deferred to , or embraced . |
| 21 | In the ambience and tradition to which I am referring personality is defined in terms of breadth and contrast ; the effect is at once stereophonically-internal — a number of speakers has been installed , so to speak — and invasive . |
| 22 | LAMDA ( London Academy of Music and Drama ) runs a one-year course for overseas students only , which although not set up as a post-graduate course may include a number of students with extensive university theatre experience as well as some professional experience . |
| 23 | Some schools will stipulate a number of Shakespearean speeches from which you may select , but in the main the choice of work is left entirely to you . |
| 24 | We have already mentioned Equity , and for a number of reasons the entire question of how to enter the actors ' union needs discussion at this point . |
| 25 | Quite a number of new actors form small fringe groups and work in plays on a profit sharing basis — and work opportunities may grow from such schemes . |
| 26 | Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership . |
| 27 | Apart from basic agreements on the necessity for law and order for survival purposes , an issue which will be treated later in the chapter , there are a number of similarities which should be mentioned . |
| 28 | The clerical and lay leadership also experienced a third pressure , that of protecting the faithful from the proselytizing activities of a number of evangelical protestants mainly among the young . |
| 29 | A number of higher clergy in Ulster and many of its lay intellectuals stand a long way off from protestant — loyalist politics and are in fact politically dissociated from them . |
| 30 | But now , on the basis of a number of well-documented opinion polls , W. Harvey Cox ( 1985 ) argues that the majority in the Republic of Ireland favouring reunification is barely two to one , and that in the island as a whole it is three to two . |