Example sentences of "number of different [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In 3.3 and problem 3.10 a number of different groups of instructions were mentioned , which involved modifying the contents of an index register .
2 The answers and commentary given below are intended to provide Tutors with an insight into the way in which these questions and the approach underlying the design of the review questions and problems for discussion have been successfully used by the authors and others with a number of different groups of students .
3 Since every organization is made up of a number of different groups of employees , the question of collaboration between groups is vital for obtaining an overall balance in the social system .
4 If you like thinking about capacity for information storage ( I do ) , you can imagine the enormous number of different patterns of flaws that could be created over the surface of a crystal .
5 As a black hole got smaller and hotter , it would emit a larger and larger number of different species of particles and would produce an explosion perhaps 100,000 times more powerful than the one calculated on the quark hypothesis .
6 There are a number of different varieties of quarks : there are thought to be at least six " flavors , " which we call up , down , strange , charmed , bottom , and top .
7 There must have been an increase in the number of different kinds of animals and plants since the Precambrian ; for example , the conquering of land alone gave rise to a multitude of new opportunities for the colonizing organisms , resulting in an increase in the total number of species .
8 Influential opinion leaders , notably , are better informed , better read , they listen more , watch more and move in a number of different circles of friends .
9 If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits .
10 Its Report The future of development plans , published in 1965 , recommended changes , basically that a number of different types of plans should replace the development plan and the comprehensive development area plans .
11 The researchers at Southampton use variants of the Modified Chemical Vapour deposition technique that was developed mainly in-house to produce a number of different types of fibres such as polarising , helical core and twin core , along with a range of single and multimode silica fibres for telecommunications , sensing and medical applications .
12 erm The trouble about the tropical forest is this tremendous variation from place to place , the conditions are totally different in different places , although the forest is similar in that it 's got large numbers of different species of trees and flora and fauna .
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