Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 2 | Every year a bank statement informs us that the Trust has lopped a mildly painful number of pounds from our far from princely pensions and every year we wonder whether we should continue to belong or not . |
| 3 | She demonstrated a number of instruments from her large collection and talked about how to introduce children to music . |
| 4 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 5 | Police have recently been receiving an increasing number of calls from householders reporting the theft of ‘ wheelie bins ’ . |
| 6 | Marjorie , a Samaritans spokeswoman , said : ‘ We have received a number of calls from people who say they want to change sex . |
| 7 | ‘ The large number of calls from Merseyside involve the same problems as from elsewhere , but there is that extra chirpiness in the voice no matter what is wrong . ’ |
| 8 | The complete task involved lifting a number of panels from their storage racks , loading them on to a jig , clamping them into position , arc welding a seam to join them , and then transferring the welded sub-assembly from the jig to another storage rack so that it could be transported to the next production stage . |
| 9 | Palmer looked at three hundred and five patients , in an M R C study , and from a multivariate analysis , he found the number of tumours from that diagnosis was the single most feature . |
| 10 | We should therefore be suspicious of any expository textbook which presents the criminal law as if it could be stated in a finite number of propositions from which all solutions could ultimately be derived without further choices at the point of application . |
| 11 | You can use delete to remove a number of lines from you program . |
| 12 | Here is one to cover 11 selections and cuts the number of lines from a full perm of 8 from 11 ( 165 ) to a mere 39 ! |
| 13 | A sample of thirty Oxfordshire parishes shows a progressive decline in the number of communicants from 911 in 1738 through 896 in 1759 to 682 by 1802 . |
| 14 | The higher number of births from the mid-1950s and through the 1960s inevitably meant more pensioners sixty years on . |
| 15 | The company later withdrew this from the high street stores and from its production schedule , following a large number of complaints from Christian individuals and groups . |
| 16 | However , there had been a number of complaints from parents about the increasingly firm discipline in the school . |
| 17 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 18 | Presumably we would only be in a position to be considering an investigator if both , we had a erm a greater number of complaints from around the Commission coming into York , and i and further members of staff were to leave . |
| 19 | ‘ We have had a number of complaints from residents about people openly dealing in the streets . |
| 20 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 21 | Mr Bergg said he had received a number of complaints from people who received both leaflets , adding : ‘ I am sure there are many more who were equally shocked but did n't bother to reply . ’ |
| 22 | ICI claimed this was not harmful to residents in the area and they had only received a small number of complaints from people who had inhaled the gas . |
| 23 | A target of 20 kilograms per hectare a year has been proposed by the Canadians and backed by a number of scientists from the USA . |
| 24 | A preliminary round to be created to reduce the number of teams from the present 21 to 16 , consisting of the three nonfirst-class sides and seven first-class counties taken in alphabetical order of rotation . |
| 25 | Before the emergence of the Teds there had been any number of alarms from the 1940s onwards about street violence , robbery attacks , ‘ Blitz kids ’ and ‘ cosh boys ’ . |
| 26 | The list also includes a large number of campaigners from third world countries who have worked on local issues . |
| 27 | Lorraine Gabriel , prosecuting , said Wennington received more than £260 for a number of hampers from the customer . |
| 28 | Between 1980 and 1990 the average attendance at Britain 's 67 racecourses grew from 4,600 to 4,900 ; the number of owners from 16,400 to 18,000 ; and the number of racehorses in training from 10,650 to nearly 13,000 . |
| 29 | We now know that , far from the male imposing form on female matter , making a human being what he or she is , foetuses come from an equal number of chromosomes from the male and from the female . |
| 30 | There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents . |