Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three dances by Gardano ( tracks 13–15 ) provide further proof of the Sienna organ builder 's skills , and of Marshall 's imaginative use of the apparently limited number of stops at his disposal . |
| 2 | The building industry has today an appreciably larger number of men at work than in the years immediately before 1939 , though probably rather a smaller percentage of the total are building new houses . |
| 3 | On the other , the national ‘ demographic time bomb ’ of much smaller numbers of school-leavers in the 1990s is likely to have its most severe impact on those places which experience rapid-migration of younger families during the 1950s and 1960s , namely the older New Towns and the more traditional commuting zones and most notably those in the Home Counties/ Outer Metropolitan Area of South East England . |
| 4 | Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays . |
| 5 | This has made it possible to keep much greater numbers of animals in much greater stocking densities in intensive housing , and it is this that has made factory-farming possible . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The multidivisional enterprise : The tendency of the argument here is the following : if the exploitation of economies of scale on the part of capitalist enterprises primarily involved the development of ever larger units of production , in the technical sense , concentrating progressively larger numbers of workers into massive factories , then there could indeed be a conflict between the wish to retain the benefits of economies of scale on the one hand and the requirements of ‘ manageable ’ enterprise democracy on the other . |
| 8 | ( This only applies for files that are relatively fully loaded ; a 50 per cent packed file would require approximately equal numbers of accesses for addition and reference . ) |
| 9 | The elliptical phraseology of the law , amounting in places to ambiguity , obscures the cut-on point for gentility , if indeed there was one in vew of the presence in the musters and subsidy rolls of a not inconsiderable number of gentlemen of extremely limited means . |
| 10 | A further deposit of maps , plans and charts from Mr R. Quentin Stevenson , mainly consisting of material used by the Stevenson family in their civil engineering projects in Scotland , has added to the already significant number of maps from this source . |
| 11 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 12 | There was no ‘ minimum wage ’ and clubs tended to take on large numbers of hopefuls at low rates . |
| 13 | The specialist team closed a larger proportion of cases within six months , and the specialist worker kept open a strikingly larger number of cases beyond nine months . |
| 14 | One consistent characteristic , however , was the presence of a disproportionately high number of boys with a record of arrests , probation and care orders . |
| 15 | The result was evident not only in a growing emigration movement but also in the disproportionately high number of Jews in the most radical political parties . |
| 16 | The disproportionately large numbers of recruits from Cheshire , and the martial reputation that the men from that county acquired , may have something to do with the successful recruiting drives organized by the Black Prince , who was Earl of Chester as well as Prince of Wales ; but it also , perhaps , reflected the problems of underemployment in a predominantly pastoral society . |
| 17 | Indeed , if quantum effects are neglected , the number of configurations would be infinite , since the black hole could have been formed by the collapse of a cloud of an indefinitely large number of particles of indefinitely low mass . |
| 18 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |
| 19 | Other test batteries result in still larger numbers of dimensions of intellectual variation . |
| 20 | Wilson 's skill as a photographer and businessman lay in his understanding of the potential of the medium ; he provided an ever increasing number of tourists with photographic souvenirs of their travels . |
| 21 | The impetus for these practices came from the need to remunerate the rapidly expanding number of clerks in royal service . |
| 22 | The safety lamp killed , like iron rail , flat ropes and cages , not by reducing safety , which it clearly did n't , but by making it possible to expose vastly increased numbers of miners to that deadly mixture , geology and profit-hungry entrepreneurs . |
| 23 | The end point on this curve — the year 1983 — has an artificially low number of theses in it , due to the incomplete nature of the published sources of thesis data , as described in Will 1985 . |
| 24 | Because of the rabbits and rodents , some of which do of course appear during the day , there are also large numbers of birds of prey . |
| 25 | The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact . |
| 26 | Coleman and her team studied over 4,000 blocks of flats and a slightly larger number of houses in two areas of London ( Southwark and Tower Hamlets ) and , for comparison , a council estate on the south-east side of Oxford , all in the context of a regard for flats and houses in many settings elsewhere . |
| 27 | In addition , the effects of overseas political and military expenditure were not exhausted by the more or less direct effects on the balance of payments but obviously also involved tying up substantial numbers of men in the armed forces and the supply industries . |
| 28 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 29 | Erm , I 've also got a rather smaller number of copies of ev Evolvematic notes if you wan na do Evolvematic , which I also demonstrated briefly . |
| 30 | Although he spent a comparatively few number of years as a painter , it is for his paintings that his name is known worldwide . |