Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also acted as auditor for a number of major international joint ventures . |
| 2 | They are on CAP 's agenda for the first time , but only as a footnote , as part of a number of so-called ’ additional measures ’ still to be settled . |
| 3 | Indeed what evidence there was at that time , for instance from a number of reading surveys , suggested the maintenance or improvement of attainment , although the single exception provoked more media interest . |
| 4 | This relationship stands after adjustment for a number of factors including age , left ventricular function , radiological findings and exercise-induced ST changes and duration . |
| 5 | Perhaps more significantly , however , it is where she paid for lunch on a number of occasions with James Gilbey , her swooning suitor of The Squidgy Tapes fame . |
| 6 | Marsh and Campbell ( 1982 ) attribute the lack of progress to a number of factors , including the difficulty of studying aggression both in laboratory and naturalistic settings , and to the compartmentalization of the academic world which leads to lack of communication across disciplines . |
| 7 | She was helped into the gardens of paradise by a number 33 bus , which had reversed over her while trying to execute a three-point turn outside the Polka Theatre , but some people still claimed that her death was , in part anyway , due to a broken heart . |
| 8 | He gave a lot of money to a number of hospitals . |
| 9 | I do believe that it is a case of think of a number and double it . |
| 10 | This model may help to resolve the problems of partnership with a number of small organisations , but it requires brokerage and quite detailed planning . |
| 11 | Total unpaid contributions approximating US$988,000,000 had brought the UN to " the brink of insolvency for a number of years " , according to a report by the outgoing UN Secretary-General , Pérez de Cuéllar . |
| 12 | Despite such precautions , early on May 22 All-India Radio started broadcasting reports of outbreaks of violence in a number of states in which up to 11 people died . |
| 13 | The knowledge that confidence will be respected is an important feature of effective nurse/patient communication , and is incorporated in professional codes of practice in a number of countries . |
| 14 | Study the definitions of geography in a number of dictionaries and encyclopaedias . |
| 15 | for the Falkirk Boroughs is reported as " just now receiving a very fair share of abuse from a number of Scottish newspapers , some on personal grounds , others political . " |
| 16 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 17 | He regarded this system as inimical to the rule of law for a number of reasons : first , because it undermined the principles of equality and universality of law ; secondly , because it placed the State in a privileged position and would therefore threaten the historic achievement of bringing the Crown under law ; and , thirdly , insofar as it resulted in the establishment of special courts , it infringed the principle of the separation of judicial and ministerial powers . |
| 18 | Her role as a simultaneous interpreter is a hyperbolic figuration of the Barthesian character who is no more than the point of intersection of a number of different public codes ( Barthes 1970b:74 ) . |
| 19 | While many hitherto disinterested onlookers could , perhaps , stomach the loss of several insect species ( even dragonflies and butterflies ) , there were few who were not moved by the prospect of extermination for a number of species of birds . |
| 20 | One of the problems that DBTG dealt with was the possibility of having one type of record at a number of levels . |
| 21 | PRIDE OF place at a number of P&O European Ferries ( Dover ) offices are certificates acknowledging their success in becoming the largest UK transport and travel company ever to be awarded the international quality standard BS 5750/ISO 9000 . |
| 22 | Their ‘ representations ’ of the social effects of the Thatcher decade were welcomed as expressions of dissatisfaction with a number of retrograde tendencies in British public life . |
| 23 | A period of under-provision over a number of years is likely to be reflected on the shelves in subject gaps or in the poor physical condition of stock . |
| 24 | Local housing authorities have been starved of cash for a number of years by the Government . |
| 25 | The new building is of importance for a number of reasons . |
| 26 | On the basis of evidence from a number of studies of small-scale societies , Mewett ( 1982 ) has suggested that class differences begin to emerge as the proportion of multiplex relationships declines , multiplexity being an important characteristic of a closeknit type of network structure . |
| 27 | The catering vehicle will be based on the underframe and some of the body members of former 42-seat passenger coach No. 3 which has been out of service for a number of years . |
| 28 | No light was thrown on the mechanism of exchange , except that the assemblages of garnet on a number of the Sutton Hoo jewels were distinct ( Bimson , La Neice and Leese 1982 ) . |
| 29 | We can , however , establish the correct order of magnitude from a number of sources . |
| 30 | Matters have not been helped by the disastrous fire in the Piper-Alpha field which put a lot of potential production out of commission for a number of months . |