Example sentences of "great number [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sunday all was quiet , but on Monday about 1,500 assembled in Sunderland , broke a great number of windows , destroyed the lights and inner works of the assembly room and broke to pieces the two figures over the gateway of the entrance thereof representing a mendicant sailor and charity . |
| 2 | He was , however , immensely impressed by the great number of monasteries and churches . |
| 3 | In a great number of cases we do not know how specialized particular occupations were , how many different jobs a single man might hold . |
| 4 | They built a great number of cottages for their workpeople ; a Unitarian chapel for their spiritual welfare , a school for their children , and a mansion for themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage . |
| 6 | The homoclinic orbits to the origin that lie close to X spiral a great number of times around C+ or C " before returning to the origin ; as you work away from X along the spiral the number of turns around C+ or C " decreases . |
| 7 | I arrived quite blind after a great number of cocktails at the George with Claud . |
| 8 | But it was not always possible to do this : the mere facts of topography were against it : and a great number of farms had to be created well away from the village . |
| 9 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 10 | Long-nets are used to supplement the work of purse nets in situations where the systems are extensive and where there are a great number of bolt-holes and entrance holes . |
| 11 | After a great number of generations , tortoises on the arid islands will have longer necks than those on the watered islands . |
| 12 | A great number of crofters had gathered to discuss the partitioning of the good land of Green Hill but the Duke 's factor and the police arbitrarily apprehended the first eight to hand . |
| 13 | For example , relations with the Emperor Bao Dai , who was to be told on Acheson 's instructions , when he arrived back in Saigon in October 1950 , that many people including a great number of Americans , had been unable to understand the reasons for his ‘ prolonged holiday ’ on the French Riviera and had indeed misinterpreted it as an indication of lack of patriotic attachment to his role of Chief of State . |
| 14 | Although there were a great number of casualties in London , the erm will of the people still remained constant to win the war |
| 15 | And if the parents are to get all the food they need , it must be in an area where there is a great number of moths and other insects flying at night . |
| 16 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 17 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |
| 18 | Changes in the course occur because of the need to attract a great number of students ; recently there has been a move to introduce a greater element of electronics in the course because |
| 19 | The last few months of '91 brought about a great number of changes , which does give hope . |
| 20 | The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . |
| 21 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 22 | Its movements relate to the four points of the compass , and a great number of movements have to be remembered . |
| 23 | Using palynological and chronometric dating techniques a great number of cores have been investigated and the flora and fauna of the terminal Pleistocene and of the transition during the early Flandrian in western Europe from tundra to closed deciduous woodland , have been investigated and the major phases distinguished . |
| 24 | Where the circumstances are that a plaintiff ( such as a mail order company ) wishes to bring separate proceedings in one county court against a great number of defendants , provision is made for a combined request and particulars of claims by the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Directions made on 1 March 1979 and 17 March 1987 setting out full instructions ; these are given in the notes under Ord 3 , r 3 in The County Court Practice . |
| 25 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 26 | The equilibrium so consummately achieved results from the counterpoise of a great number of directions . |
| 27 | The female lays a great number of eggs , attaching each individually to the leaf of a water plant . |
| 28 | There are a great number of competitions aimed at schools ranging from major awards for curriculum quality and innovation to colouring in photocopied drawings for a five pound prize from the garage down the road . |
| 29 | As usual , there was a great number of births among the antelope herds with blackbuck , gemsbok and red lechwe especially productive . |
| 30 | There are a great number of adherents in the highlands . |