Example sentences of "number of [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes Chairman , er , during the budget debate at the recent erm , programme advisory groups , members er , had before them , as you have in the budget document , the possibility of selling a number of teen care places to other local authorities . |
| 2 | A small explosion resulted which detonated a store of hand grenades , which in turn set off a number of flamethrower fuel containers . |
| 3 | Conventional moving walkways such as those at London 's Heathrow Airport and in a number of Paris metro stations travel at less than normal walking pace . |
| 4 | FIL file creation time to determine the maximum number of SPR distribution messages which may be outstanding at the same time . |
| 5 | Only microscopic number of reproductions hand on the walls of ordinary peoples ' houses , and in terms of the national population those people who really ‘ like ’ them — as opposed to professing admiration for them — must be very much of a minority , so Bacon 's millions must have come from institutions and a very small body of very rich patrons . |
| 6 | If your army contains at least one Goblin Mob then it may include any number of Goblin wolf chariots . |
| 7 | Albin 's work has been spurred by the large number of road accident victims admitted to the hospital at the Health Science Center , many of whom have been drinking . |
| 8 | Last February I was pleased to launch Lothian 's first Road Safety Plan which declared a bold set of initiatives designed to reduce the number of road accident casualties in Lothian by a target of one-third by the year 2000 . |
| 9 | Any effect on the number of road accident casualties is likely to be detectable only in the longer term . |
| 10 | The second part will deal with a number of ACT planning manoeuvres and potential ACT traps . |
| 11 | A commonly cited example of defensive medicine is the rise in the number of caesarean section births , as opposed to natural births . |
| 12 | In the gunbattles yesterday , Col Peck said a number of relief agency offices and residences in central Mogadishu had been hit by bullets and what he called ‘ ballistic fallout ’ . |
| 13 | The gradual eclipse of radio is shown by the growth in the number of TV licence holders , until the separate radio licence was abolished in February 1971 . |
| 14 | Out of the substantial number of TV production companies available , some can be found who specialize in any of a number of areas , either of product type or of technique . |
| 15 | The number of TV news programmes they watched regularly ( asked in the Pre-Campaign Wave ) . |
| 16 | A small number of bill broking firms are involved — they act as agents ( brokers ) in bringing together those wishing to sell instruments and those wishing to buy . |
| 17 | It is sold at the monuments , tourist information centres and through an increasing number of travel trade operators . |
| 18 | The volume was to be anonymous , since , as Coleridge explained , ‘ Wordsworth 's name is nothing — to a large number of persons mine stinks ’ . |
| 19 | The number of leg ulcer treatment decisions made by various clinicians in the nine EHA patches . |
| 20 | Note : For Random Access media , there is no penalty for overestimating the number of blocks value as it is possible for LIFESPAN to detect when the media is full . |
| 21 | The data about the number of audit firm partners ( defined under the audit regulations as ‘ responsible individuals ' ) was obtained from the computerised public audit register as at November 1992 and from the institutes ' lists of members . |
| 22 | Table 3 shows the number of audit firm registrations with each regulator and the percentage of firms regulated by them . |
| 23 | An extraordinary number of subscribers ad donors had turned up , all the select society of the town ; but even the most unselect were admitted , provided they brought the cash . |
| 24 | Subscription will be subject to a number of conditions precedent , including the completion of the investors ' due diligence and the putting in place of satisfactory loan arrangements and working capital facilities . |
| 25 | A number of COS district branches soon began to form themselves into separate committees for this purpose , and in 1902 a Central Industrial Bureau was opened which , under pressure from increased applications from boys as well as girls , addressed itself to both sexes . |
| 26 | We carried out a number of 50% water changes . |
| 27 | The number of fundholding general practices in Scotland is set to rise to 76 , covering one patient in every eight in the country . |
| 28 | Maximum number of MODULE ACCESS keywords exceeded in configuration file |
| 29 | By April 19 The Times reported that the police had visited the offices of a number of Istanbul publishing houses and that printers had cancelled orders to print 18 periodicals deemed in the past to have shown some sympathy to the Kurdish cause . |
| 30 | A considerable number of drive circuit configurations are available , but in the following Sections the discussion is limited to two of the best-known types . |