Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The higher number of births from the mid-1950s and through the 1960s inevitably meant more pensioners sixty years on . |
| 3 | A target of 20 kilograms per hectare a year has been proposed by the Canadians and backed by a number of scientists from the USA . |
| 4 | A preliminary round to be created to reduce the number of teams from the present 21 to 16 , consisting of the three nonfirst-class sides and seven first-class counties taken in alphabetical order of rotation . |
| 5 | Before the emergence of the Teds there had been any number of alarms from the 1940s onwards about street violence , robbery attacks , ‘ Blitz kids ’ and ‘ cosh boys ’ . |
| 6 | Lorraine Gabriel , prosecuting , said Wennington received more than £260 for a number of hampers from the customer . |
| 7 | We now know that , far from the male imposing form on female matter , making a human being what he or she is , foetuses come from an equal number of chromosomes from the male and from the female . |
| 8 | In addition , a number of works from the Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen have been added for this showing . |
| 9 | Among these , according to Fedor Polenov , Head of the Russian Delegation and Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet Commission for Culture , is the intention on the German side to give Russia a number of works from the Bremen Collection for Russian museums , and also to give financial and technical aid for the restoration of the Novgorod Museum and Park , and to help in making up the museums collection which was destroyed during the war . |
| 10 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 11 | The Regimental Sergeant Major , responsible for co-ordinating sporting activity in addition to his normal duty , reports that a number of soldiers from the regiment are going on a sailing course . |
| 12 | Over the protests of black African states , the Security Council had reduced the number of soldiers from the 7,500 originally envisaged to 4,650 . |
| 13 | And we have also inherited a number of projects from the Schools Council . |
| 14 | However , a subsequent compromise reached in the Vermittlungsausschuss ( joint mediation committee consisting of an equal number of members from the Bundesrat and Bundestag ) enabled the government to apply the increased taxes on July 1 , while abandoning certain reductions in company taxation . |
| 15 | There must be quite a number of members from the university who are in the chorus . |
| 16 | When my village failed to supply the requisite number of slaves from the Araba tribe of Yaruda to the west , the entire village was cleared by the blancs . |
| 17 | Paul Mba Abessole , a prominent opposition figure and leader of a faction of the main opposition group , the National Rectification Movement ( Morena ) , refused to accept a Cabinet post , as did some other opposition politicians , on the grounds that they had not been consulted on the composition of the new government , which included a number of ministers from the outgoing Cabinet . |
| 18 | Equally important in achieving desirable results may be attaining the correct number of products from the point of view of variety , the correct extent of vertical and horizontal product differentiation between the variants , etc . |
| 19 | You will have erm before you on the sheet a number of resolutions from the groups in relation to the budget and although the motions have n't been put , I 'll just refer you to a statement which I produced which seems to compare the compare the motions the draft motions from each of the groups . |
| 20 | The introduction of quotas to regulate the commercial fish catch had removed a substantial number of set-netters from the industry . |
| 21 | This year 's event attracted a number of scholarships from the Volvo Tour itself to manufacturers such as Wilson and Dunlop Slazenger and Tour sponsors like Diners Club and Hewlett Packard . |
| 22 | In recent years , Zambia has received a growing number of refugees from the continuing civil war in Mozambique . |
| 23 | Britain , meanwhile , has set an important precedent by including a number of representatives from the food industry and consumer groups in its delegation to the conference . |
| 24 | At a preset number of steps from the target the downcounter changes the state of the DECELERATE signal from HIGH to LOW . |
| 25 | ( b ) If the motor has attained its maximum stepping rate deceleration must commence when the number of steps required to decelerate is equal to the number of steps from the target . |
| 26 | Despite a number of withdrawals from the field , there are still some 15 European producers of ethylene oxide , and about seven of phenol and four each of carbonylation alcohols and amines . |
| 27 | The management of this type of change is distinctly different in a number of ways from the management of change in many other arenas that concern human resource development ( HRD ) practitioners daily . |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend and I have received a number of representations from the Combined Heat and Power Association . |
| 29 | This had generally taken three forms , of which the largest was remittances to their families by the large number of Palestinians from the territories working in the Gulf and elsewhere . |
| 30 | Phyllis Mary Ashraf 's Introduction to Working Class Literature in Great Britain ( 1978–9 ) considers a number of poets from the eighteenth century . |