Example sentences of "number of [noun prp] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals . |
| 2 | The Commission published a report on competition policy on June 24 , 1991 , in which it said that the number of intra-EC mergers among larger companies had in 1990 for the first time exceeded that of purely national mergers . |
| 3 | This technique uses a number of PCR primers for different organisms in the same test tube . |
| 4 | The success rate of the method ( number of PCR templates with inserts greater than 250 bp/number of high quality sequence reads ) was greater than 90% . |
| 5 | As a natural artist , he became a successful portrait painter a cartoonist for a Liverpool journal and art master at a number of Liverpool schools before embarking upon a career as missioner which he pursued for thirty years until his retirement in 1931 . |
| 6 | Excellence award : Charles Greenland ( centre ) , director , service and parts with Peugeot Motor Company ( UK ) , hands a certificate of excellence , presented annually to a limited number of Peugeot dealers in the United Kingdom , to Ronnie Ross , dealer principal and Brenda Turner , service manager , with Ross Motors , Peugeot dealers , Campsie . |
| 7 | Patricof , which manages funds for a number of UK institutions including Eagle Star and Standard Life , hopes to float the company on the stock market in five years . |
| 8 | Continental Research , the independent market research group , predicts that the number of UK homes with satellite dishes will exceed 3 million this year . |
| 9 | A number of Moscow museums on the list are also included in a municipal programme with extra finance for their rebuilding and running . |
| 10 | The marathon will result in the closure of a large number of London streets on Sunday . |
| 11 | Catering to the needs of the poor would hardly have doubled the number of London architects in twenty years ( from just over 1,000 to 2,000 — in the 1830s there had probably been fewer than one hundred ) , though building and renting slum property could be a very lucrative business , judged by the income per cubic foot of low-cost space . |
| 12 | The agreement to buy seventy-two new pubs from Inntreprenuer Estates Limited will bring the total number of Morland pubs to just under four hundred . |
| 13 | The agreement to buy seventy-two new pubs from Inntreprenuer Estates Limited will bring the total number of Morland pubs to just under four hundred . |
| 14 | The new appointments brought the number of PCP seats to 54 which , together with the support of three conservative independents , was sufficient to ensure a slim majority in the upper chamber . |
| 15 | The number of US personnel in the USAID office in Yemen was reduced from 19 to one before the outbreak of the war on Jan. 15 , with the remaining official scheduled to leave by Jan. 30 , and local staff were given " administrative leave " as of Feb. 2 . |
| 16 | By early September the number of US forces in the region was estimated to be well in excess of 100,000 , and was continuing to increase daily . |
| 17 | One corporate-centred bargaining strategy in the form of ‘ coalition ’ bargaining has been adopted by a number of US unions since the 1960s . |
| 18 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 19 | The Queen is under no obligation to restore the number of Knights Companions to the customary 24 , but the feeling is that she will . |
| 20 | The former Soviet republics of Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Turkmenistan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan and Ukraine were admitted as new members on Jan. 30 , with Russia taking over the Soviet Union 's seat , bringing the total number of CSCE members to 48 . |
| 21 | On Nov. 3 the Observer had reported food riots in a number of Baghdad suburbs on Oct. 16 , 18 and 20 . |
| 22 | In fact , their departure was watched with quiet satisfaction by a surprising number of Rockford residents from behind curtains and various vantage points . |
| 23 | A number of FE colleges outside the publicly maintained system offer full and part-time courses in subjects such as art and architecture , drama , languages , and English for foreign students . |
| 24 | ‘ We teach the highest number of SCOTVEC modules in Scotland , ’ she explained . |
| 25 | The book will be accompanied by a " computational adjunct " in which a number of BASIC programs for use on home computers will be presented . |
| 26 | These Diploma holders , together with a further four members who qualified for the FSD under the Lombard Scheme , bring the total number of FSD holders to 387 worldwide . |
| 27 | On Nov. 1 , Israeli jets , in three raids , destroyed two bridges linking Nabatiyeh with the Iqlim Al Toufah region and attacked a number of Hezbollah bases in the area . |
| 28 | He will be joined by a number of Down aces including Danny Hughes , Lorenzo McMullan and Paud mason . |
| 29 | Families from the towns and villages of the county emigrated in large numbers , especially in the 19th century , and their spread and influence can be judged by the number of Ayrshire place-names to be found throughout the world . |
| 30 | Hi , I do a bit of player poster collection and have missed quite a number of Leeds players from the early 80s to late 80s . |