Example sentences of "[to-vb] a number [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will know how many rows there should be to the inch ( centimetre ) , all you need to do is to work a number of rows less than given in the instructions before finishing the sleeve . |
| 2 | The MDU rallies prompted the government and party to announce a number of measures obviously designed to placate the demonstrators . |
| 3 | I think he 's trying to do a number of things here |
| 4 | This type of data storage is useful for analysis techniques but has limitations when it is necessary to manipulate a number of models simultaneously , as in designing complete assemblies . |
| 5 | There is no precise meaning to ‘ double ’ with regard to petal number , and the word is taken to mean a number of petals so closely packed that until the bloom fully opens and then ‘ blows ’ , it is virtually impossible to see the anthers and other sexual parts of the flower — they are quite hidden . |
| 6 | In Out and Such one discourse is brought to bear on another through metaphor ; in Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon the same type of metaphor is used to bring a number of discourses together in an increasingly interrogative conjunction . |