Example sentences of "a number [prep] [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The makers of sanitary towels have promoted their wares in a number of ingenious ways over the years , but few have shown the same initiative as that of Southall Brothers and Barclay of Birmingham who , in July 1888 , took up one third of the back cover of The Antiquary with an advertisement . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Sun 's Colwell hints that more announcements concerning ‘ historic IBM-based companies with third-generation based traditional products ’ would be the subject of a number of other announcements over the next four to five weeks . |
| 3 | In particular , there is bound to be a large amount of work involved in buying a number of small annuities over the years and it may be difficult to get the appropriate advice at the time . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , pen-based systems offer a number of distinct advantages over speech or keyboard based systems . |
| 5 | In particular there have been a number of publicised protests over environmental issues , involving nuclear waste , air pollution and the development of major engineering projects . |
| 6 | These surveys have recorded the adoption of a number of new technologies over time for a consistent set of manufacturing establishments , providing a unique source of data on the history and patterns of technological change in this important sector of industry . |
| 7 | It confirms a number of previous reports over the last few years [ see EDs 68 , 67 , 65/66 , et passim ] . |
| 8 | The LGC has seen a number of fundamental changes over the past few years , not least its relocation in 1989 from the south bank of the Thames in central London to its present plush premises next to the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington , Middlesex . |
| 9 | Female mink permit several matings with a number of different males over a protracted mating season . |
| 10 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
| 11 | Through the creation and use of databases in a number of different contexts over a period of time , pupils develop an awareness of the microcomputer as an information handling tool rather than a games machine or programming instrument , while , at the same time , developing valuable learning skills . |