Example sentences of "number [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publishers were not slow to realize the potential of the new market , releasing a spate of books and magazines which were the successors to the elitist Victorian guide book and the predecessors of the glossy coffee-table number for contemporary leisure motorists . |
| 2 | Further information from Telephone number during normal office hours from the UK is |
| 3 | A number of audio-visual tape/slide presentations dealing with various aspects of library user instruction had been produce d under the SCONUL tape/slide programme , at a number of British university libraries . |
| 4 | In many cases , this association of boundaries with mills means either that the mills were in existence when the boundaries were defined ( thus indicating an increased number of Anglo-Saxon mill sites and a more extensive interference with river courses than we formerly thought ) , or that special arrangements were made to alter parish boundaries when new mills were built . |
| 5 | The change , which affects sellers and buyers where they are both VAT registered or are liable to be registered as a result of a transaction and the buyer is making the purchase in connection with his or her business , was made in an effort to combat the growing number of serious VAT frauds involving smuggled gold . |
| 6 | Too much fat can also mean you 're not eating enough starch and fibre-rich foods , and this dietary imbalance may lead to a number of serious health problems . |
| 7 | Although I myself believe that this statement is broadly true there are a number of serious research workers who now believe that it is false . |
| 8 | Its qualities as a cruiser offshore were soon recognised by an increasing number of serious cruising yachtsmen and women . |
| 9 | Azidothymidine or zidovudine ( AZT ) , the only drug yet approved to treat AIDS , was shown to have a number of serious side effects and was linked to an increased incidence of various forms of cancer . |
| 10 | Today , the mill is in reasonable condition and , although most of the milling machinery has long been removed , there are a number of overhead drive shafts and wheels still in position as well as the six grain bins which occupy the upper floor . |
| 11 | The number of illegal border crossings and attempted crossings in Hungary had risen by 400 per cent compared with 1988 , he said . |
| 12 | The number of illegal border crossings and attempted crossings in Hungary had risen by 400 per cent compared with 1988 , he said . |
| 13 | Page 235 states : ’ In our surveys the British samples reported the greater number of vocational learning experiences . |
| 14 | The company also has a number of strategic distribution partnerships . |
| 15 | These sequences contain one copy of the AUUUA motif that is known to mediate RNA instability in a number of short-lived cytokine transcripts ( reviewed in [ 25 ] ) . |
| 16 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 17 | You will almost certainly have a large number of powerful shock troops such as Silver Helms , Dragon Princes and Tiranoc charioteers . |
| 18 | This research is aimed at investigating the educational potential for the mathematics classroom of a small number of powerful computer applications . |
| 19 | This is consistent both with Home Office figures for the annual number of notified drug addicts resident in Wirral during the 1980s ( rising from four in 1980 to 320 in 1985 ) , and with the experiences and estimates of local professionals concerned with heroin use . |
| 20 | In the past year the number of catalogued CD-ROM titles has more than doubled to more than 2,000 and looks likely to continue to grow just as fast . |
| 21 | A RECORD number of 737 snooker professionals will be competing in next season 's nine world-ranking events and that means nearly 5,000 matches will be played . |
| 22 | The growing radicalism was partly a consequence of the increasing recruitment of working-class students who were necessary to fill the rising number of professional-managerial class jobs . |
| 23 | There are a number of anti-glare screen filters appearing on the market varying greatly in terms of materials used , style and price . |
| 24 | There are a number of anti-glare screen filters appearing on the market varying greatly in terms of materials used , style and price . |
| 25 | So I was able to make excursions throughout the state , which is about the size of Hampshire , admiring its astonishing number of traditional country houses , and enjoying the company of many of their owners . |
| 26 | Thus it is easy to gauge an individual 's age by counting the number of dark resting lines in the bone ( see below right ) . |
| 27 | These difficulties have been faced with commendable honesty in the large catalogue , which includes a number of useful specialist essays , and which will certainly be the point of departure for future research in this area . |
| 28 | This project continues a first phase of research funded by the Office of the Data Protection Registrar , the Office of Telecommunications and the Department of Law in the University of Sheffield to investigate current law and practice in a number of European member states and in the United States with the aim of contributing to current policy debates and examining the handling of the issues of privacy and new technology by different legal and administrative cultures . |
| 29 | The consortium is led by Olivetti ( Italy ) and includes Philips ( Germany ) , Bull ( France ) , Siemens ( Germany ) , as well as a number of European university laboratories . |
| 30 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |