Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun sg] [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes Chairman , er , during the budget debate at the recent erm , programme advisory groups , members er , had before them , as you have in the budget document , the possibility of selling a number of teen care places to other local authorities . |
| 2 | Last February I was pleased to launch Lothian 's first Road Safety Plan which declared a bold set of initiatives designed to reduce the number of road accident casualties in Lothian by a target of one-third by the year 2000 . |
| 3 | IRIMS uses a number of expert systems techniques including : a language input parser based on sideways chaining and rule values which allow Bayesian probabilistic reasoning to identify possible user intentions/hypotheses ; fuzzy set methods to translate uncertainty and ambiguity in the databases or user specifications into linguistic or graphical descriptions ; and various rule-based pre- and post-processors to define appropriate context-dependent default input values . |
| 4 | Table 3 shows the number of audit firm registrations with each regulator and the percentage of firms regulated by them . |
| 5 | The number of fundholding general practices in Scotland is set to rise to 76 , covering one patient in every eight in the country . |
| 6 | The number of council house owners in Darlington would double under new Conservative plans , Mr Fallon said this week . |
| 7 | The number of council tax payers in Scotland will be just over 2 million , compared with 3.7 million for the poll tax . |
| 8 | The number of capital investment schemes for which agricultural grant was paid is increasing , from 5,564 in total in 1979/80 to 6,718 in 1982/83 . |
| 9 | There are also a number of expatriate support groups in both cities . |
| 10 | Voting was also held for all State Assembly seats in Haryana and West Bengal and for a number of State Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh . |
| 11 | The number of water pollution incidents in England and Wales rose by 4 per cent in 1992 to a total of 23,331 , according to official statistics produced by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) . |
| 12 | From September 1981 the music course for professional performers has qualified for mandatory awards , the Welsh College of Music and Drama being one of a small number of specialist music centres in the UK to be so designated . |
| 13 | The Jeanneau family seems to have more than a little to do with the founding of a number of yacht building companies in France other than that which currently bears its name . |
| 14 | He pointed to the 6.8 per cent increase in the number of income support claimants between 1991 and ‘ 92 and gave warning of the effect on the poor of the staged increases on valued0added tax on domestic fuel bills . |
| 15 | The number of skin cancer cases in Britain has doubled in 10 years , with the South West as the worst area . |
| 16 | Premiums paid for life insurance and funds under management have risen more than five-fold to £14.5 billion and £224 billion respectively , despite there being only a 2m rise in the number of life insurance policies to 106m . |
| 17 | Number of Service Level Agreements with TECs and LECs |
| 18 | We are considering whether a small number of test air crews from industry in the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve should be used as front-line reinforcements for fast jet aircraft . |
| 19 | Admission is free although a commitment of a specified number of counselling/ training hours per week will be required on completion of the study . |
| 20 | The closure of Bairdwear at Aycliffe brings the total number of textile job losses in South Wear Durham and Cleveland over the past 12 months to more than 1,000 . |
| 21 | Castle Communications ( the audio and video group ) has introduced a number of accounting policy changes in its accounts for the year ended 30 June 1992 . |
| 22 | INTEREST rates may be rising , pushing borrowers even further into debt , but the number of county court judgments against individuals in debt has fallen by 16 per cent in the first half of 1989 , according to figures released by the Registry of County Court Judgments . |
| 23 | Michael De Fazio , USL 's executive vice president , said the French subsidiary is the ‘ first of what will be a number of Unix System Technologies throughout the world . |
| 24 | The severity of argyrophil cell hyperplasia was assessed , based on the number of argyrophil cell clusters per mm . |
| 25 | Was service as an airman in the Middle East and India is graphically described , as are a number of post war assignments of great variety covering a multitude of aircraft from Meteors and Javelins to rocket-assisted Valiants ! |
| 26 | The number of fen raft spiders on the site have declined from 1,500 in 1987 to " a handful " today . |
| 27 | Taken together , these character candidates produce a number of letter string candidates for any one word . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , however , another career strand had become woven in back at McKinseys where , he said , he had done a number of health service assignments with John Banham ( the future first head of the English Audit Commission before he became director of the Confederation of British Industry ) . |
| 29 | A colossal number of Housing Executive dwellings in my constituency are in urgent need of renovation — I am thinking of the housing estates at Tullycarnet , Ballybeen , Groomsport , Bangor and Holyrood . |
| 30 | So it follows that reducing the number of House Dust Mites in your home could improve the condition of sufferers in your family when sensitivity is a likely problem . |