Example sentences of "small number of [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most spectacular are huge flocks of Scandinavian greylag and pink-footed geese , which winter-roost at Strathbeg , grazing in surrounding fields ; as well as smaller numbers of less common barnacle geese , resting on their tiring journey from Spitzbergen in Norway to Solway Firth feeding grounds . |
| 2 | Gradual decreases in pH with time lead to prolonged acidity which interferes with fish reproduction and spawning , so that over time there is a decrease in fish population and a shift to a smaller number of more tolerant older and larger fish . |
| 3 | Another of the machines already at the Centre uses a smaller number of more powerful processors to achieve over 2 gigaFlops . |
| 4 | Emphasis on better design , better training , individualised care , more interest relatives ' needs , input from the rehabilitative professions , and the resiting of long stay care nearer to patients ' homes could greatly enhance care and morale , allowing such wards to look after small numbers of severely disturbed residents extremely well . |
| 5 | However , when we look at continuous speech in English utterances we find that these tones can only be identified on a small number of particularly prominent syllables . |
| 6 | Almost all of these reports were prepared by committees of inquiry appointed directly by government ministers ( though we have also included a small number of particularly important reports produced by working parties or study groups attached to government ministries ) . |
| 7 | This chapter summarises the main Acts of Parliament concerned with or directly relevant to education , together with a small number of particularly important ministerial circulars , regulations and orders . |
| 8 | I want rather , by focusing on a small number of closely related questions , and simple ones at that , to suggest something of how all this came about and why it matters . |
| 9 | It is important to note , though , that only a small number of industrially advanced countries may be able to gain economically in this manner . |
| 10 | A relatively small number of industrially advanced countries appear to have the basic technological and managerial skills required to respond to the IT challenge in an orderly fashion with a view to achieving the accompanying advantages . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Shearman , as District Chairman , recognised that the District could not continue in its relatively impecunious way ‘ sustained by a very small number of rather weak branches dispersed over a very wide area … most of the branches were struggling ’ . |
| 12 | One thing which could account for a greater distinctiveness in memory of risky situations would be the idea that risky situations constitute a small number of rather unusual items among a large number of more similar ones . |
| 13 | Our strategy is influenced by your requirement for confidentiality and will be based on a circulation to a small number of carefully selected parties . |
| 14 | Within science itself there are disciplinary differences ; thus high-energy physics is now concentrated into a small number of very expensive , internationally-funded and operated , research centres . |
| 15 | Vulnerable old person This term will be used to distinguish the small number of very frail old people from the majority of competent independent elderly people over 65 . |
| 16 | This will take the form of a small number of very large global players and a large number of very small niche operators — niche in terms of both market and geographical coverage . |
| 17 | In the US steel industry not only did employers control a rapidly changing technology but the small number of very large firms which existed possessed vast financial resources . |
| 18 | ( There is also a small number of very large companies that are private . ) |
| 19 | The markets in which they are sold often include a small number of very large customers , such as , for example in the UK : * fuel oil — Ministry of Defence , British Railways ; P & O , Sealink and other large shipping companies ( etc ) ; * paint — Central and local government authorities , British Railways , car manufacturers ( etc ) . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , there were some INSET initiatives in this area , and in particular the Special Services Division organized and ran a small number of very ambitious courses . |
| 21 | Although , generally , women lag behind men in educational achievement , at higher levels the proportion of female students is not very different from that of male , with the result that a small number of highly educated women enter the labour market each year . |
| 22 | It produced a small number of highly skilled |
| 23 | The institutes of higher education and jurisprudence established in the early nineteenth century began to train a small number of highly competent officials who consciously broke with the haphazard approach of the past . |
| 24 | In any representative sample of students , there will be a statistically small number of highly intelligent students . |
| 25 | There have been a small number of fairly successful conservation projects , notably Chang Mei , and at Ma Sae ( UNEP 1979 : 83 ) , but they do not materially detract from the view that Thai conservation policy is not succeeding in reversing national trends of rapid forest clearance and increasing erosion hazards . |
| 26 | This is because there are only a small number of directly relevant empirical studies , and it is hoped that the results from studies of other futures contracts will shed light on the nature of these relationships for index futures . |
| 27 | Publishers will not publish chancy , fat collections when they can publish a small number of readily marketable volumes . |
| 28 | The architectures for parallel computers still cover a large range , and these two machines represent two disparate approaches — using a small number of quite powerful processors , or a large number of weaker processors . |
| 29 | For a small number of less contentious bills , the normal proceedings of the standing committee were preceded by three sessions conducted on the lines of a select committee . |
| 30 | But while large companies are only a small percentage of total businesses , they dominate the economy , such that ‘ a large proportion of economic activity in present-day capitalist economies is concentrated in a relatively small number of absolutely large firms ’ . |