Example sentences of "great [noun sg] of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midlands has the greatest concentration of motorways in the country — 350 miles which last year witnessed nearly a thousand serious or fatal accidents , |
| 2 | The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise . |
| 3 | The middle of the nineteenth century marks the beginning of the greatest migration of peoples in history . |
| 4 | The great variety of creatures in the Burgess Shales is a reminder of how incomplete our knowledge is of all fossil faunas . |
| 5 | The astonishing peculiarity of human beings , as distinct from other animals , is the great variety of ways in which they achieve these ends . |
| 6 | The great majority of companies in the construction industry are companies limited by shares , to which this chapter refers . |
| 7 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 8 | It is hardly surprising that the great majority of accidents in the Alps occur during descent . |
| 9 | She , for her part , accepted the fact that he was gregarious and , like the great majority of men in those days , tended to congregate with members of his own sex . |
| 10 | Just as the great majority of stations in the United States and Canada , particularly in the earlier period , were no more than frame sheds , so thousands of stations in Africa and Asia were very simple buildings indeed . |
| 11 | " not advisable to adopt the suggestions of the Visitors : the School in its present state works exceedingly well and it is very doubtful if a more extended course of the higher branches of education would be equally beneficial to the great mass of residents in Stockport and its vicinity , who are anxious to avail themselves of the instruction afforded to their children in the School as at present constituted . " |
| 12 | There 's an office in town opposite Boots on Parliament Street and there 's a great range of leaflets in there on all sorts of things . |
| 13 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 14 | To a tenth-century man or woman ( and Karl Leyser has shown the great importance of nunneries in the aristocratic social order of tenth-century Saxony ) , as to a modern monk or nun , the raison d'être of monasteries was their communal worship , their liturgy . |
| 15 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 16 | There 's going to be a great emergence of blacks in sport soon . |
| 17 | ‘ The Pacific Ocean , its shores , its islands , ’ he said , ‘ will become the great theatre of events in the world 's hereafter … henceforth European commerce , European thought and European connections , although becoming more intimate , will nevertheless sink in importance. , |
| 18 | It was also a government of great stability of men in offices . |
| 19 | A cursory examination of the Municipal Act reveals the great diversity of matters in respect of which municipalities may legislate and the diversity of activities in which such corporations may engage . |
| 20 | They would not have a great choice of subjects in their fourth and fifth years . |
| 21 | The Grey Mountains divide the Empire from Bretonnia , the other great realm of Men in the Old World . |
| 22 | Although there were a great number of casualties in London , the erm will of the people still remained constant to win the war |
| 23 | There are a great number of adherents in the highlands . |
| 24 | Throughout his life , Agnew could not speak and relied entirely on sign language and fingerspelling , but was a highly articulate man — he penned a great number of articles in Scottish and national newspapers giving his views on the introduction of oralism into British schools . |
| 25 | There was a great number of rabbits in the place — many more than he was bringing . |
| 26 | It is appropriate , then , that Ali has been the subject of a great number of pieces in Esquire , most of them written by undisputed literary heavyweights , including Irwin Shaw and Norman Mailer among others . |
| 27 | There are a great number of anomalies in the accounts he gave . |
| 28 | During the great cycle of wars in 1689 – 1713 both Louis XIV and his English opponents employed military men to fill many of the most important diplomatic appointments , while under Napoleon I they were even more extensively used . |
| 29 | They are badly needed : as Green has said , ‘ It would be easy for clinical research to become the first and indeed the greatest casualty of reductions in size in London . ’ |
| 30 | Amongst these are the Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Paris , and the terrible collision on the ground at Tenerife between Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s which to this day accounts for the greatest number of fatalities in a single accident . |