Example sentences of "[adv] on a number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of teachers and academics have been murdered , the UES has been closed down on a number of occasions by the army and the UCA subjected to bomb attacks . |
| 2 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
| 3 | Lienhardt , writing of the Dinka of the southern Sudan , provides support for Romaine 's view but also suggests a further elaboration of it , impinging as he does so on a number of the issues raised here . |
| 4 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 5 | 6 The quality of design , production and maintenance work depends critically on a number of factors which are under direct control of project managers . |
| 6 | While he was supervising the preparation of his constitution and orchestrating its presentation to the people of France and the French Community , de Gaulle moved decisively on a number of other fronts , particularly economic and diplomatic . |
| 7 | In contrast , government Whigs can be found defending the prerogative rights of the Crown — notably vis-à-vis the Church in the Convocation controversy , but also on a number of other issues — and in so doing invoked a vision of England 's feudal past similar to that employed by Tories during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 8 | We 've taken the issue up on a number of occasions and some of the younger men agree that perhaps things should change , but the older ones are adamant about what they regard as women 's work . |
| 9 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 10 | Rut this is ruled out on a number of counts . |
| 11 | A wife whose husband had taken a girl out on a number of occasions would tell the counsellor , ‘ This time it 's different — they 've slept together . ’ |
| 12 | He accepted the devotion of a prostitute who anointed his feet with costly perfume , and he dined out on a number of occasions with tax collectors and sinners , who represented the social outcasts — the ‘ untouchables ’ of the day . |
| 13 | As part of the work associated with the preparation of the first Road Safety Plan , an analysis of road accident data was carried out on a number of areas eligible for Urban Aid grant . |
| 14 | A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment . |
| 15 | M. W. Eysenck ( 1976 , 1977 , 1982 ) , however , reviews evidence against this interpretation focusing particularly on a number of cases where arousal appears to improve immediate retention . |
| 16 | He coached abroad on a number of occasions , always refusing any kind of payment , even for his expenses , and his three visits to Harvard between 1896 and 1898 were rewarded by an honorary degree . |
| 17 | In Moscow tomorrow we shall discuss with the Russian authorities the way forward on a number of difficult economic questions . |
| 18 | An education department spokesman said teachers , governors and the police worked closely on a number of anti-crime schemes in the classroom . |
| 19 | The policy group will meet again on a number of occasions . |
| 20 | It has touched briefly on a number of activities which all contribute to better staff utilisation . |
| 21 | Narratorial frustration is evident in the disjointed structure of the novel which focuses briefly on a number of subcultures of professional London without bothering to link them in more than a cursory manner . |