Example sentences of "number of [noun] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 In the US Congress the House banking committee , chaired by Henry Gonzalez , was one of a number of committees now investigating the question of why the US government 's Commodity Credit Corp .
2 The number of matings strongly influences the reproductive success of a male , but not of a female .
3 The number of students nationally obtaining the CNAA 's Diploma of Higher Education in 1977 was only 293 , of whom approximately half transferred to ‘ linked ’ or ‘ top-up ’ courses in the same institution .
4 When the islands were first settled , the population began to increase rapidly and the number of inhabitants soon exceeded the resources , prompting emigration to other Portuguese lands .
5 The large number of studies also gives the findings potentially greater generalisability .
6 A large number of products already incorporates the marks , and all new products , or those with redesigned packaging , will now display them .
7 In order to construct an arbitrage transaction where the number of futures exactly offsets the basket of shares in the index , it is necessary to be able to hold shares or futures in fractional quantities , which is not possible .
8 The thresholds for medium companies are increased to not more than £11.2m for turnover and not more than £5.6m for the balance sheet total ( the number of employees also remains the same at an average of 250 ) .
9 At least 300 Muslims were butchered in this way ; an equal number of Christians probably met the same fate .
10 A number of churches here survived the Turkish occupation , but were lost in the nineteenth century when the capital of the newly independent Greece was re-organised and planned on broad lines .
11 courses are also such that a substantial number of candidates never make the grade .
12 Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties .
13 Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being .
14 But the number of applicants far outweighed the spaces available .
15 A number of nations now have the technology to spot , from space , objects as small as 2 metres across .
16 The US administration claimed that the recent dramatic increase in the numbers of refugees far exceeded the total of 12,500 who could be accommodated at Guantánamo .
17 Over recent years imports and exports have been vested with great political and cultural-ideological significance , and it is very likely that increasing numbers of consumers now register the country of origin of what they are buying , and producers now register the destination of what they are producing , and this knowledge may affect their actions .
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