Example sentences of "number of [noun] from [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Requesting the UN Secretary-General to draw up by March 1990 an action plan by UN bodies against drugs with specific goals and timetables , the resolution invited states to consider asking him to appoint a number of experts from both the developed and developing world , in order to enhance the efficiency of the UN in this area . |
| 2 | Wyld ( 1936 ) , for example , cites a large number of spellings from around 1200 onwards in which the letter h is ‘ wrongly ’ omitted or inserted , but concludes that there is no reliable evidence for ‘ the present day vulgarism ’ before the eighteenth century ( p. 296 ) . |
| 3 | This was important as we recruit a number of players from there . ’ |
| 4 | We 've had a number of inquiries from abroad . |
| 5 | There is also a far greater chance of tackling the issues the schools feels are important and not having them lost in the large number of demands from outside . |
| 6 | Inner London is dominated by teaching hospitals and medical schools and has traditionally taken in a significant number of patients from outside its area . |
| 7 | Further data on these geomagnetic reversals were collected and by the mid-1960s a chronology of reversals had been established through the radiometric dating of a large number of samples from all over the world . |