Example sentences of "large [noun sg] of [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because of the present state of the economy and also because of the seasonal nature of the main businesses , with the large majority of profits usually earned in the second half , it is too early to form a clear view of the outcome for the year , ’ the group added . |
| 2 | ‘ Next season we must consider playing fixtures in midweek under the floodlights of those clubs who have the facilities during October , November , February and March to prevent any large backlog of matches again . |
| 3 | In an earlier example it was shown that a large proportion of requests only require some attributes to be present or absent . |
| 4 | The fact that a large proportion of women now work has potential implications for the balance of power and dependency within families and the way that domestic tasks are performed . |
| 5 | It is important to remember that a very large percentage of jobs never come on to the open market but are filled from within the firm , by people applying ‘ on spec. ’ or by people who hear about a vacancy from friends or colleagues working in the same field . |
| 6 | The aircraft flew into a large flock of seagulls just after take-off , and sustained multiple bird strikes . |
| 7 | The project will use published data from the balance sheets of a large sample of firms together with interviews with government and private bankers and with firms in the electronics industry . |
| 8 | I once made a large collection of snakes there . |
| 9 | He had a part-time job in a large firm of chemists where he worked in the stockrooms . |
| 10 | Waving Bosnian flags and portraits of the late Yugoslav communist leader , Marshal Tito , a large crowd of miners still in work clothes chanted : ‘ Down with the murderers ! |
| 11 | Ventura can accept files from a large number of programs so formatted text from , say , WordPerfect will appear just as it was typed . |
| 12 | I keep the matter under review , as I must , but in the circumstances I am not persuaded that the public interest requires me to take the necessarily large number of actions up and down the country . |
| 13 | Mr. Latham , for the plaintiff , submitted that it would be quite wrong to assume that the Act of 1976 has effectively satisfied the requirements of justice identified by Lamont J. He observed that our law of limitation leaves scope for a large number of claims still to be brought by plaintiffs born before 1976 . |
| 14 | Zander found that a large number of payments in were accepted and that it was a tactic well used by defendants . |
| 15 | The large number of studies also gives the findings potentially greater generalisability . |
| 16 | Now clearly there are , you know , methodological issues here , who replied on the questionnaire and so on , but there are clearly a very large number of replies , a very large number of students up in the , you know , several hundreds , who perceive themselves to be being sexually harassed . |
| 17 | A large number of products already incorporates the marks , and all new products , or those with redesigned packaging , will now display them . |
| 18 | CAUTIOUS trading statements and mediocre results from a large number of companies today kept investors secured on the sidelines . |
| 19 | Management of a large number of cases successfully is easily achieved . |
| 20 | While there a large number of cases where the victims are juveniles , there are many others where the newspapers would be allowed by law to identify the victim . |
| 21 | In general they did not seek harsh retributory sentences once order had been restored and in a surprisingly large number of cases actually went some way towards meeting the wishes of the crowd by doing something to encourage a lowering of prices and initiating or participating in relief measures . |
| 22 | He foresees a small number of popular application programming interfaces becoming available on a large number of systems so that developers can target a variety of vendors with one version of an application . |
| 23 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 24 | He foresees a small number of popular application programming interfaces becoming available on a large number of platforms so that developers can target a variety of vendors with one version of an application . |
| 25 | The factor that may be decisive in explaining why the oil industry produced in west Thurso so great and prolonged an excess at ages 5–24 is the large number of incomers already associated with the nuclear industry . |
| 26 | It was one of the main reasons for the move and already has proved its worth with V.I.P. customers being able to see the large number of ranges fully displayed . |
| 27 | The chief value of the computer in this instance lies in its ability to search a large number of records very quickly . |
| 28 | A more realistic solution might be for Jordan to give the Palestinians some of its land — especially as a large number of Palestinians already live there . |
| 29 | I I 'm not certain that they were particularly group organised , but er , certainly I shall be looking forward to deposit a large number of files there from our group . |
| 30 | Their success in this area so changed the way British films were perceived that , in 1932 , a year when a large number of exhibitors substantially over-filled their quota , the American showbiz journal Variety reported on ‘ the complete stranglehold the home-made pictures had established at the local box office . ’ |