Example sentences of "of copies of " in BNC.

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1 A BOOKSELLER who sold thousands of copies of the banned book Spycatcher was awarded £1,725 legal costs in the High Court yesterday after the Attorney General dropped contempt proceedings against him .
2 As for chairmen , they do not like having to print millions of copies of their annual reports or having to answer tedious questions at their AGMs from Disgusted of Worthing .
3 He means that there is a gene which , if it is present in an animal of a given species , along with all the other genes and environmental circumstances characteristic of that species , will make that animal somewhat more likely to do X. Then , if doing X causes an increase in the number of copies of the gene in the population , the gene will spread .
4 To counter this , we distributed thousands of copies of a special leaflet explaining how the inquiry worked and how you should prepare if you wanted to speak .
5 There is also a collection of copies of Dudley 's and Amy 's letters and a portrait of this beautiful young woman .
6 Under our agreement with Waterloo University , where the accessing software , PAT , was developed , we are able to distribute only a limited number of copies of the tape for research purposes and we have nearly reached our ceiling .
7 Once a replicator has come into existence it is capable of generating an indefinitely large set of copies of itself .
8 Mr Jones , the landlord of The Two Pheasants , was organising a chain of water carriers from the tap in his bar , and Albert Piggott , stomach pains forgotten , had trundled out an archaic fire-fighting contraption which had been kept in the vestry since the Second World War and had never been used since the time when a small incendiary bomb had set light to the tassels of the bell ropes , and an adjacent pile of copies of Stainer 's ‘ Crucifixion ’ , in 1942 .
9 For instance , over the past three decades publishers have tended to produce more titles per year , but smaller numbers of copies of each title .
10 By allowing a number of copies of the same document to be produced on request from the microfilmed back-up copy , branches would be likely to establish their own duplicate files .
11 A number of copies of the bust was made .
12 Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour .
13 It is a good idea to take along a number of copies of your c.v .
14 I 'M SORRY , WE HAVE RUN OUT OF COPIES OF THE CHIPPENDALES ' COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAMME IN BRAILLE .
15 The wicker industry began with the manufacture of copies of cane furniture — popular at that time in Germany and Britain — for the British families , and then for the hotels in Funchal .
16 was quite ready and anxious to permit their drawings for these cars to be used in order to ensure that the design would be at least up to their standard and no doubt both Hurst , Nelson and Brush held sets of copies of these drawings .
17 7.1 agrees to order from the minimum number of copies of the Licensed Software as specified in Schedule 9 .
18 7.5 In the event that fails to order and pay for the minimum number of copies of the Licensed Software specified in Schedule 9 shall be entitled at its option , to terminate the Agreement without liability .
19 Many machine-readable dictionaries are now available to academics for research purposes , although these are usually in the form of copies of typesetting tapes , and have no accompanying software for operating on the data .
20 He enclosed a number of copies of testimonials and requested one from his illustrious patron .
21 The companies say that the finished product will manage every aspect of software , and all activities relating to software licences , including the all important tracking of the number of copies of an application relative to the number of licences held .
22 Microsoft Corp says it has trouble estimating the number of copies of Windows NT it will sell , so what is the reasonable way to tell whether it succeeds ?
23 The court 's decision to deny the preliminary injunction was based in part on the notion that thousands of copies of 32V were disseminated and freely available back in the late 1970s , when in fact only about 250 copies were circulated , and those said to have been on tight contractual terms .
24 IBM Corp and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp were yesterday due to launch their joint venture to market systems for duplicating audio compact disk recordings in retail stores : the idea is that record companies could eliminate the need to press hundreds of thousands of copies of major recordings — instead the store would tap into central databases at each record company to collect the tracks requested and record them onto a blank disk ; although no pilot systems have yet been launched , IBM said the system also could be used to make and sell computer software and video games on demand ; the IBM-Blockbuster system is expected to be designed to distribute albums in original form , rather than enabling customers to mix and match their choice of tracks , and negotiations are reportedly already under way with several record companies ; a typical CD would take about six minutes to make , complete with the glossy packaging buyers expect .
25 In spite of Hutchinson 's claims that he had 20,000 members in the Mansfield district , and large numbers of followers in Lancashire and other industrial areas , and that he had printed hundreds of thousands of copies of the National Worker , there was no evidence that he had any members in his organization .
26 IBM Corp has now shipped 700,000 copies of OS/2 2.0 since it announced the product on March 31 and claims it has exceeded its initial unit sales projection — ‘ We 're well on track to surpass many industry expectations , ’ it said , but Reuter notes that IBM has previously said its expects to sell ‘ millions ’ of copies of OS/2 this year but has never provided a specific forecast .
27 When a large number of copies of the same document or form are required , they can be duplicated or photocopied from a master copy .
28 During the normal working day the demands on system resources will be those generated by the use of copies of Oedipus ( for ease of management a single copy of the code is maintained on disk ) .
29 If not , he will have to buy or otherwise get sight of copies of past examination papers .
30 The article is at its most eloquent in its illustrations of copies of work by Degas , Turner and Monet .
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