Example sentences of "number of [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been a number of attempts at detailed classification , some very involved and certainly not avoiding a great deal of overlapping of the categories . |
| 2 | This discussion held a number of themes at different levels . |
| 3 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 4 | The high number of sites very close to water can be equated with the number of sites at low altitudes , sea-level and up to 15 m above sea level . |
| 5 | Achieve the effect by having a number of loudspeakers at lowish level , preferably facing in the same direction . |
| 6 | Previous studies have recorded in normal volunteers and in patients with PSS the number of swallows at specific intervals that were needed to clear a given amount of acid placed in the oesophagus . |
| 7 | By 1987 the European Commission had joined the UN ECE in the forest survey business and required all member states to undertake a standard grid survey , reporting on a set number of trees at regular 16 km intervals , using a common method . |
| 8 | We see the provision of information from Visitor Centres at all of our sites as being one of the most significant ways in which we can make the information resources of the Garden available to the maximum number of people at reasonable cost . |
| 9 | They should seek to organise the maximum number of people at local level to bring pressure to bear on local authorities , on Stormont , but particularly on Westminster . |
| 10 | Unlike its predecessor , the standing committee will continue working but has already felt able to recommend a small increase in the target number of places at medical schools . |
| 11 | What the approach bequeathed is procedures for surveying large numbers of people at minimum cost , and a series of guides for eliciting " factual " information from respondents in an interview . |
| 12 | There was no ‘ minimum wage ’ and clubs tended to take on large numbers of hopefuls at low rates . |