Example sentences of "[art] number of local [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most significant of these new features , at least to the monastic chroniclers , was the introduction of Christianity , the overwhelming unifying force of Western Europe , although the number of local problems its followers produced might have made its success seem rather remote . |
| 2 | When there are diverse preferences for public goods , the number of local communities required to produce an equilibrium would be extremely large . |
| 3 | As the number of local agents increased and the Party adopted a regional structure directly answerable to London , so the central authority became more elective . |
| 4 | Thus the proportion of the population , as opposed to the number of local authorities , under Labour control might be substantial . |
| 5 | The number of councillors is small relative to the size of the population they represent ; and the ratio has grown still larger since local government reorganisation in the 1970s reduced the number of local authorities and hence of councillors . |
| 6 | The longer a party has a majority in the Commons , the greater the number of local authorities likely to be captured by its opponents . |
| 7 | Once the dust settled on these major institutional changes , the effect was to reduce the number of further education establishments in Wales from 53 to 47 , while the number of local authorities was reduced from thirteen to eight . |
| 8 | Added to this there was a belief in the economies of scale of large organisations — hence the 1970 White Paper on the Reorganisation of Central Government and the 1972 Local Government Act which reduced substantially the number of local authorities creating much larger organisations . |
| 9 | In the event , the number of local authorities that emerged with social service responsibilities was nearer 90 . |
| 10 | ‘ Most of the options actually exacerbate the difficulty of securing co-ordinated management of the Cairngorms by increasing the number of local authorities involved , ’ the response states . |
| 11 | Baker and Butlin ( 1973 , p. 619 ) concluded from their major edited survey of those field systems that ‘ As the number of local studies has increased , so to some extent has the difficulty of attempting generalizations and it becomes increasingly clear that no single interpretation will exactly fit all the known facts ’ . |
| 12 | radio and television stations ) , and the number of local artists signed to the company . |
| 13 | ( WES ) It brings the number of local stations covering the area to four . |
| 14 | By the autumn of 1788 a number of local committees were established but the process seems not to have seriously breached Wilberforce 's guidelines . |
| 15 | It is also suggested that the release is sent to the Glasgow Herald and the Scottish County Press ; the latter group covers a number of local papers ( some of which are also considered suitable for Statutory Notices , see paragraph 11c ) . |
| 16 | In addition , a number of local factors can be responsible for sea level change ( Goudie , 1983 ) and these include glacioisostasy whereby the earth 's crust responds to the development or removal of large ice sheets , and hydroisostasy when a similar response occurs as a result of large bodies of sea water or lake water from continental shelves and lake basins ; orogenic and epeirogenic activity ; compaction of sediments ; and the increased gravitational attraction associated with large Pleistocene ice-sheets . |
| 17 | But within this apparently uniform pattern of land use were a number of local variations , including those pertaining to land transfer . |
| 18 | ‘ A number of local residents commented that there was already a disproportionate ratio of pigs to people in the locality and although proposals to extend the operation would have led to some improvement , in that a new farrowing house would have been built to bring the pigs in from the old farm buildings , in fact the larger pig population would increase the scope for offensive odours to permeate the village . ’ |
| 19 | Conway Mill is a case in point , where a number of local businesses were not assisted financially because they located there and were eventually forced out . |
| 20 | A number of local studies have been undertaken on what the impact of the poll tax would be had it been implemented in the 1988 — 9 financial year . |
| 21 | Again , there are no national figures but a number of local studies indicate a high incidence of certain physical and sensory impairments amongst black and Asian communities ; the high incidence of sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia among people of Caribbean and Mediterranean origin is also well known . |
| 22 | These trends continued and accelerated in the 1970s , and are discussed more fully in the summary at the end of this section , but in advance of the more definitive work allowed by the 1981 Census , a number of local studies began to identify a group of common themes . |
| 23 | In the lowlands the basic facts of land use have already been outlined in Table 8.2 ( 8th line of data ) and although there have been a number of local studies of landscape change ( Blacksell and Gilg , 1981 ) , only nationally commissioned studies can provide a large enough resource base for an adequate survey of both landscape change and the behavioural aspects behind the change . |
| 24 | The examples he provides , of " dribbling payments of a shilling or two " for house repairs , funerals , clothes , tools and medicines and for tiding over occasional hard times , can be multiplied from a number of local studies . |
| 25 | A number of local authorities , for example , put out refuse collection to private tender . |
| 26 | A number of local authorities have attempted to take more positive action to deal with the issues raised by the 1985 riots , but their experience has shown that such local initiatives are often severely limited by the actions of national government , the police , and broader economic and political pressures . |
| 27 | In the early part of 1986 a number of local authorities throughout the UK instructed the libraries under their jurisdiction ( mainly public libraries , but also a number of college libraries ) to suspend their subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals published by News International . |
| 28 | In his chapter Thomas examines the origins of local management schemes , the innovatory work undertaken on this by a number of local authorities , and the objectives of the local management proposals contained in the Education Reform Bill . |
| 29 | As well as supplying cricket clubs 3D have supplied pitches for a number of local authorities and many country grounds , while Lilleshall — where England went through their paces before flying off to New Zealand — have had practice pitches installed . |
| 30 | The committee did not engage in a research programme in the manner of the earlier Maud Committee , but contented itself with receiving evidence and visiting a number of local authorities in the early months of 1972 . |