Example sentences of "as [prep] a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with a number of other regions , a number of these early mill sites were in the hands of religious foundations , such as the Benedictines and Cistercian Orders who , up to the time of their suppression in the 16th century , owned as many mills as any of the estates or manors in Britain . |
| 2 | As with a number of similar literary-based projects around in Hollywood at a time when mainstream studios were trying to discover what to do next after the demise of musical and religious epics , it was not a success . |
| 3 | As with a number of shafted weapons , it was used from the eleventh to the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | As with a number of other computer companies , Pick has discovered that there are brains to be hired that previously worked in academia , the military , government and even the KGB . |
| 5 | Here again there is some convergence with the work of a more directly sociological tradition , and especially ( though many theoretical problems are then raised ) with Mannheim ( 1936 and 1956 ) , as well as with a number of empirical studies of specific groups and conditions ( cf. |
| 6 | Here as in a number of places in his text , Bukharin appeared to be confusing different conditions , for example , money becomes valueless with the introduction of planning under conditions of material abundance . |
| 7 | East Berliners have been offered free tickets for a football match today in West Berlin as well as to a number of concerts and the opera . |
| 8 | They include an interesting group of survey drawings made by Robert on a visit to London in 1611 , but also many original designs ( some of them drawings of considerable beauty ) , which supply evidence as to a number of the ‘ diverse other ’ houses mentioned on his monument . |
| 9 | The smaller boroughs also tended to be the most vulnerable to electoral manipulation , either through " treating " , as at a number of venal boroughs , or through tampering with the composition of the franchise . |