Example sentences of "with a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community . |
| 2 | Usually it is at the end of a long day 's racing , with a number of stressful periods all adding to the pilot 's fatigue . |
| 3 | I have flown with a number of people who , with the slightest lowering of the nose or the gentlest stall , look as though they are having an epileptic fit . |
| 4 | Thameslink was formally inaugurated by HRH The Princess Royal on 25 April , when she combined its formal launch with that of Save the Children Week and travelled with a number of children on unit 319036 to Crystal Palace . |
| 5 | Next came the Class 58 , functionally similar to the Class 56 but with a number of radical design features such as external walkways along the sides of each locomotive ; a fleet of fifty entered service between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 6 | A major life-extension programme was carried out on nearly half the Class 37 fleet , with a number of variants designed specifically for freight haulage and expected to survive into the next century . |
| 7 | The sack won an award from the Design Council and comes with a number of extras including an eternal document wallet . |
| 8 | The strength of the partnership is highlighted for Allan , who also works with a number of other artists . |
| 9 | There was also some excitement on the oil pitch , with a number of old stories given another whirl . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been involved with a number of societies who have been approached by potential predators . ’ |
| 11 | Sir John presented cadets with a number of trophies , and Mrs R Webber presented WO Frank Crane with the Bill Webber Memorial Cup . |
| 12 | She was also impatient with a number of departments for displaying less than whole-hearted devotion to her policies . |
| 13 | It is also interesting to note how relations have worsened with a number of élite institutions which have been identified with paternalist and consensual values — universities , the Church of England , the senior civil service , the BBC and One Nation Conservatism . |
| 14 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 15 | METRO RADIO is in preliminary talks with a number of companies including Radio Forth . |
| 16 | METRO RADIO is in preliminary talks with a number of companies including Radio Forth . |
| 17 | However , he was a writer with a number of plays to his credit , none of them great successes but all worthy of note . |
| 18 | This determination to sell arms on the international market has a more sinister note , since Romania 's large chemical industry is in close contact with a number of Arab states , whose positions on chemical weapons Ceausescu supports . |
| 19 | Large groups of dolphins are mixed in age and sex , but smaller groups generally are of three types : a nuclear group , comprising a single adult male and female ; a nursery group , with a number of adult females and young ; and a bachelor group , with adult and young males . |
| 20 | The 25th section of the Act of 1873 dealt specially with a number of points in which there was a difference between Law and Equity , of which the following may here be mentioned : |
| 21 | The policy was continued , with a number of amendments , in the 1925 legislation . |
| 22 | I had called a meeting in my office , by now decorated with a number of pictures from the Government 's own art collection including a marvellous study of the railway cutting at Acton by Lucien Pissarro . |
| 23 | The Badgers Act 1991 has changed that position along with a number of others , and the RSPCA intends to publish a leaflet to bring the book right up to date . |
| 24 | There is no need to become a slave to it , provided you plan ahead and keep up to date with a number of essential tasks . |
| 25 | His young rider , ‘ Wendy ’ , saddled him up , and started to trot him around in the practice ring with a number of other horses . |
| 26 | Earl brought in a yellow legal pad with a number of acronyms on it in boxes , and North put it down on the table ; at that point , his secure telephone went off , and he had to ask Miller to leave . |
| 27 | Someone once said that you were n't much interested in politics except of the musical variety , of which you are a consummate master ; but you have been friendly with a number of leading politicians , including two British Prime Ministers . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the director of the RSC production , Phyllida Lloyd , has tried to ginger things up ( where they do not need gingering ) with a number of anachronistic touches — a Victorian costume here , a modern uniform there , saxophones , neon lights , and so on . |
| 29 | The action starts with a number of implausibilities and works its way towards a world-class coincidence . |
| 30 | With a number of stocks going ex-dividend , market-makers estimated the combined effect of this to be a 6½ point knock to the Footsie . |