Example sentences of "great number [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With a very great number of credit grantors not being members of any trade association and others being members of more than one , such a system could not give rise to a fair method of raising a levy . |
| 2 | In recent years a great number of two- , three- and four-star hotels and apartment hotels have opened . |
| 3 | I suppose it is a spectator sport of a sort but from the operator 's viewpoint the presence of uninitiated onlookers has a great number of debit points . |
| 4 | In 1712 , Atkyns describes a scene of great activity and speaks of Chalford as ‘ a remarkable place for the great number of clothing mills and the great quantity of cloth made there in the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 5 | In 1337 a certain Robert Gyan was submitted to a brutal penance by the dean of Wells for carrying away ‘ a great number of alder ’ from Stan Moor in the Somerset Levels . |
| 6 | There are a great number of output programs available through a conveniently small number of menus . |
| 7 | Over the years , says Ash , he has worked with a great number of PhD students , all of them very able , some outstandingly so . |
| 8 | Daly draws attention to the great number of submarine banks and lagoons of atolls , which occur at depths of up to 90 m ( 300 ft ) . |
| 9 | Most machine-guns had a cyclic rate of fire of 500–600rpm , which necessitated a great number of ammunition carriers . |
| 10 | Nobody would argue that Britons in the decade 1982-1992 enjoyed living standards that 1930s world champions , Benny Lynch and Jackie Brown , would have regarded as being beyond the average working man 's reach , yet this period of comparative prosperity produced 11 British world champions : the greatest number per decade in British boxing history . |
| 11 | By far the greatest number of responsibility centres , trading organizations such as the nationalized industries excluded , can be described as ‘ expense centres ’ . |
| 12 | The greatest number of animal experiments that the computers are taking over are in cardiovascular studies , including one involving shock . |
| 13 | The title has an added significance : Status Quo is in The Guinness Book of Records for having the greatest number of hit singles — 45 in band 's long career . |
| 14 | The food , drink and tobacco industry reported the greatest number of machine injuries with 940 between 1990 and 1991 . |
| 15 | These areas also have the greatest number of nerve connections . |
| 16 | 3 Each week 's prizes will be awarded to those entrants who have found the greatest number of car words in the square . |
| 17 | Increased pressure on social services departments arises from a greater number of child abuse referrals , higher levels of unemployment since 1979 , higher levels of crime , policies of de-institutionalisation and demographic factors . |
| 18 | Some of the difference may be accounted for by the greater number of court sites and judicial officials in proportion to population and area in Sri Lanka than in India . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is because a predator is able to find and eat relatively large numbers of aposematic prey in a short space of time , and that the high initial rate of feeding produces a more powerful reinforcement than a greater number of prey eaten over a longer period . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , execution time increases with larger window sizes in a fairly linear fashion , due to the greater number of word positions to consider . |
| 21 | " In the greater number of epidemic diseases , " McNab went on , " the morbid poison appears to enter the blood in some way , and after multiplying during a period of so-called incubation , it affects the whole system . |
| 22 | There is a growing trend in the textile trade for designers to make use of computer-aided design , in order to explore a greater number of design ideas and to shorten lead times on production . |
| 23 | Some thought it meant there were a greater number of search modes . |