Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
| 2 | courses are also such that a substantial number of candidates never make the grade . |
| 3 | If you rotate the graticule such that the maximum number of dots covers erm a stained and then you count those number of dots , that 's the count . |
| 4 | Nominations must be in writing , signed by not fewer than the required number of signatories , and incorporate ( or be accompanied by ) a signed declaration by the nominee that he or she is willing to serve . |
| 5 | ‘ even If we lose 10,000 brain cells a day from the time we are born , we have started with so many that the total number lost by the age of 60 would be less than 3 Per cent . ’ |
| 6 | Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses . |
| 7 | Tobacco advertising revenue ( at £60.4mn ) is marginal ( average 2.4% ) for all but a tiny number of publications ( source : Media Register ) . |
| 8 | Also , it may be worth pointing out that most shareware distributors offer a policy whereby users buying more than a certain number of disks pay less per disk . |
| 9 | This option is chosen automatically when more than a certain number of measurements fall outside a certain tolerance . |
| 10 | Very few people will have the time and desire to follow up more than a small number of the leads that are referenced ; and those who do will usually be aware of the older literature , in any case . |
| 11 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |
| 12 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 13 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 14 | The poll early next year would elect a coalition government made up of all the parties winning more than a minimum number of seats to lead the country to majority rule in the year 2000 . |
| 15 | So take a tip from none other than Graham Greene : " A story has n't room for more than a limited number of created characters . " |
| 16 | However , most laboratories which produce more than a modest number of thin sections are now equipped with appropriate automatic and semi-automatic systems . |
| 17 | The owner is company director Paul Scott , who says the giant painting in his entrance hall cost no more than a personalised number plate . |
| 18 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 19 | Under the Chester scheme , landlords pay £50 to register , but if they fail to do so and their houses contain more than the permitted number of occupants , they face fines of up to £1,000 . |
| 20 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
| 21 | All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! ! |
| 22 | Henry Ratter set up a moodified Quality in Action workshop for a group of 25 heads and LEA officers , many more than the usual number . |
| 23 | The baselines may amount to no more than the total number of times each behaviour is noticed in a one hour session every day for a week . |
| 24 | If elimination of lead in petrol could reduce blood levels by half — as the study assumed — it would reduce average blood pressure levels by 1 to 2 points , thereby meaning that 12,000 fewer people would need treatment for hypertension annually , there would be 6,000 to 12,000 fewer heart attacks , and up to 2,655 lives would be saved — more than the total number of fatalities on the nation 's roads each year . |
| 25 | Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ? |
| 26 | Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars . |
| 27 | The Manager , with the ache he had in his hand from welcoming people , realised that much more than the invited number had arrived . |
| 28 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
| 29 | Having more than the ideal number can be a problem — it does n't mean that any more will be sold , and the rest will sit on the shelf ‘ doing nothing ’ . |
| 30 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |