Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No previous study of Scottish medieval prices exists , mainly because information on the subject is scarce , and scattered widely through a number of sources . |
| 2 | The Governor Eyre controversy dragged on for a number of years , creating deep divisions within respectable society . |
| 3 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |
| 4 | American reports say that the Pershing II , which is only a stretched , possibly over-stretched , Pershing I , has only once been fired successfully after a number of failures , and that over a shorter distance than will be required . |
| 5 | weekend that we are arranging this summer as we have done annually for a number of years . |
| 6 | Alternatively , they may well work on their own account , perhaps for a number of organisations simultaneously . |
| 7 | Subject to planning permission , it could sensibly have been used for development and perhaps for a number of other purposes … |
| 8 | He was a founder member of the Society of Chemical Industry ( 1881 ) , and became its foreign secretary in 1910 , remaining so for a number of years , and president in 1911–12 and 1914 . |
| 9 | ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said . |
| 10 | It was near here , at roughly four o'clock on the green , that I placed the small house where the two friends Ella and Dimity lived amicably together for a number of years . |
| 11 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 12 | Only then may the supplier 's product be classified as satisfactory , and , perhaps after a number of years of further product tests have elapsed , the supplier may be added to the list of recognised contractors . |
| 13 | The Swiss Supreme Court says that any money will be released to the Philippine government only after a number of conditions have been met . |
| 14 | At one time boundaries were , in the main , marked by a white line , and it was only after a number of years of requesting the TCCB that in matches organised by them a rope be used to denote the boundary that this regulation was implemented , if my memory serves me correctly , for the 1983 season . |
| 15 | Traditionally the largest man-made hole in England , it is the result of the running together of a number of small quarries Cornish slates were widely employed for roofing in the county by the fourteenth century and indeed by 1314 they were certainly in use on buildings in Winchester , Hampshire . |
| 16 | Functionally it was an interlocking web of economic and social purpose of great imagination : a masterly bringing together of a number of town planning themes . |
| 17 | But there are many other instances where contributors take an adversarial stance against fellow reviewers ( " I submit that it is fatal to his case " ) , or one of advocacy on behalf of favoured authors ( Pope is " cleared entirely of a number of grave charges " ) . |
| 18 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 19 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 20 | Erm and this can leave people obviously with a number of traumas and a number of difficulties to deal with later on in life . |
| 21 | This clearly covers such a vast range of possibilities that it is best to break verbal behaviour down into a number of categories and concentrate on some specifics . |
| 22 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 23 | This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones . |
| 24 | All extended proportional series can be broken down into a number of linear series of cells , as in figs. 5.6 and 5.7 , and this is the form in which we shall study them . |
| 25 | The exposition is more easily understood if broken down into a number of stages . |
| 26 | These five factors can in turn be broken down into a number of subsidiary aspects to produce a specific number of questions to be answered in identifying the likely longer-run attractiveness of the industry . |
| 27 | Using the technique of functional decomposition , a very complex problem can be broken down into a number of fairly complex parts and then further to less complex parts until , at the bottom level , all the parts are fairly trivial and therefore easy to understand . |
| 28 | Large departments are breaking down into a number of smaller units . |
| 29 | These factors can be broken down into a number of sets for the purposes of different sections of the UCTA , and probably form the most useful framework under which to analyse its effect . |
| 30 | The Badgers Act 1991 has changed that position along with a number of others , and the RSPCA intends to publish a leaflet to bring the book right up to date . |