Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the number of committees that writing itself had to be suspended . |
| 2 | He had invested his money in a number of schemes that required his attention , and his days seemed pretty full to her untrained eyes . |
| 3 | Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about , the number of generations that separate us from our earliest ancestors is certainly measured in the thousands of millions . |
| 4 | Throughout the training programme we discussed the ways in which people are disabled — not by limited ability but by a number of barriers that keep them apart from the activities that the rest of their communities are involved in . |
| 5 | I 've worked at a number of occupations that put me into positions of possible danger . |
| 6 | So it 's according to the number of people that use it , go to mass , how much you pay |