Example sentences of "[prep] a number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fillis fed sugar and carrots to horses belonging to other people , and was convinced that the horses lacked affection for their owners because they started whinnying to him after a number of visits with the food . |
| 2 | The change , which could come in this autumn , follows the scrapping of the controversial unit fines system , which led to public outrage after a number of cases where huge fines were imposed for trivial offences . |
| 3 | The Swiss Supreme Court says that any money will be released to the Philippine government only after a number of conditions have been met . |
| 4 | Originally graded E7 6c ( F8a ) , it has been down graded to F7c+ after a number of repeats , including a flash by Tony Mitchell . |
| 5 | American reports say that the Pershing II , which is only a stretched , possibly over-stretched , Pershing I , has only once been fired successfully after a number of failures , and that over a shorter distance than will be required . |
| 6 | Even after a number of plays , the only ones which made any lasting impact were ‘ Here Big Day ’ , a witty enough piece about getting married , and its attendant perils , and ‘ My Father 's Shoes ’ , a genuinely fine song about loving a parent — it struck home with me , and I 'll wager I wo n't be the only one . |
| 7 | I always name the team equal after a number of rounds and finish with something that involves everyone . |
| 8 | After a number of rows , Peckinpah got a double to complete the scene . |
| 9 | Earlier , Det Sgt John Clark had said he had been involved in meetings with other police forces all over the country after a number of raids on TSB branches in which cash dispensers were forced open using oxy-acetylene equipment . |
| 10 | The building was being watched by police after a number of raids in the area . |
| 11 | British Rail has spent fifteen million pounds to make doors on high-speed trains more secure after a number of deaths of passengers falling-out . |
| 12 | Data analysis is an iterative process : the final model will not be obtained until after a number of tries and this should not be seen as slowness , but care for accuracy . |
| 13 | After a number of days the conference was able to reach an agreement which was set out in a communique dated 21 July 1991 . |
| 14 | The danger of harming an interest to help an individual friend demanded the greatest caution in placing ministers in rural parishes , and after a number of mistakes the Duke of Montrose became very reluctant to present any candidate without a careful sounding of opinion together with an evaluation of the merits of the candidate himself . |
| 15 | On 30 April , after a number of interviews , at the outset of which he was no doubt cautioned , he was charged that he : |
| 16 | After a number of years on tour with her husband , in Europe , the near East , South Africa and the Argentine , she returned to Broadway in the mid-1930s . |
| 17 | However , after a number of years of operation , the APU does not appear to have been conspicuous in its success : most of the background measures are of little use , and there are difficulties in relevant measures . |
| 18 | At one time boundaries were , in the main , marked by a white line , and it was only after a number of years of requesting the TCCB that in matches organised by them a rope be used to denote the boundary that this regulation was implemented , if my memory serves me correctly , for the 1983 season . |
| 19 | Only then may the supplier 's product be classified as satisfactory , and , perhaps after a number of years of further product tests have elapsed , the supplier may be added to the list of recognised contractors . |
| 20 | Therefore , after a number of years of operation , regular service and preventative maintenance , it can become increasingly difficult to retain peak performance and preserve the capital value of this expensive asset . |
| 21 | Seabird colonies in the Shetland Isles are recording significant breeding successes after a number of years of declining numbers . |
| 22 | HAVE heard many stories of people running into old school friends after a number of years , but this one takes the biscuit . |
| 23 | LIBERALDemocrat candidate Ian Cameron asked the police to intervene after a number of boards promoting his campaign were removed from land in the outlying village of Elwick . |
| 24 | This was after a number of bodies — SCA , BASW , ADSS , ADSW , and the Association of Chief Probation Officers among them — undertook a feasibility study . |
| 25 | After a number of speakers , including black Africans from Ghana and South Africa , had addressed them , Peter Howard spoke . |
| 26 | The personalities of the individuals concerned were then examined using one or other of a number of procedures , ranging from objective personality inventories to depth analysis methods , such as the Rorschach ink-blot test . |
| 27 | With regard to liturgy , these canons demanded the retention of a number of procedures which had come under attack from Puritans , such as the use of the surplice , kneeling to receive communion , and the inclusion of the sign of the cross and godparents in the baptism ceremony . |
| 28 | Detectives who carried out a raid at an exclusive house at Coatham Mundeville , near Darlington , have held talks with the Crown Prosecution Service which is now considering the content of a number of articles seized . |
| 29 | In a joint statement , Councillor Gregory Campbell and Bill Irwin of the DUP said : ‘ The Child Poverty Action Group in Londonderry recently completed a survey of a number of estates , on of which was the Caw area , where they found very high incidences of deprivation . |
| 30 | In some monastic traditions the Office is only one of a number of priorities . |