Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , it is not just an additional committee , on the part of the West region , it is in fact the total reorganisation of a number of meetings , and getting down to a far more business-like thing . |
| 2 | Harden 's type-series ( 1956b , pp. 139–43 ) divided the total assemblage into a number of distinct categories , beakers with stems or claws , bell , bag or cone-shaped , with the related horns , pouch bottles , squat jars , bottles , palm cups and bowls , to which has been added a bucket-shaped vessel from the cemetery of Westgarth Gardens , Bury St Edmunds ( Suffolk ) ; slight variations have been made to the original typology ( Harden 1978 , pp. 2–6 ) . |
| 3 | The report , which was approved by military censors , provoked a strong response from a number of senior politicians who questioned the wisdom of the army 's decision to disclose the existence of the undercover squads . |
| 4 | For work which did not lead to examinations there was always the problem of assessment and standardizing that assessment between a number of teachers . |
| 5 | According to a report in the Jerusalem Post of March 3 , during the talks Baker demanded a quick Israeli response on a number of unresolved issues , including the composition of the Palestinian delegation to the proposed Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo . |
| 6 | While the combined effect of a number of cases had been to limit the audi alteram partem principle , it would be misleading to say that it had been wholly forgotten . |
| 7 | On the basis of extensive research in a number of congregations in the United States , Peter Wagner has postulated an estimate of ten per cent who are either effectively or potentially gifted as evangelists . |
| 8 | Extensive research in a number of quite different cultures has largely corroborated this assumption and vindicated Piaget 's decision to base his theory on the detailed investigation of a relatively small number of children . |
| 9 | It was called off within twenty-four hours after extensive rioting at a number of men–s prisons . |
| 10 | However we 're beginning to make some progress and we 're making some progress for a number of reasons . |
| 11 | But I like this guitar for a number of reasons . |
| 12 | The Minister of Agriculture assumed direct responsibility for a number of services between 1937 and 1944 , and in the post-war years local authorities lost their hospitals to the National Health Service ( NHS ) and their gas and electricity undertakings to nationalised boards . |
| 13 | It will be seen that I have to arrive at figures in respect of damages in this case under a number of heads . |
| 14 | Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday . |
| 15 | I have myself used this technique on a number of occasions in both urban and book research . |
| 16 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 17 | He was also beginning to rely very heavily on her sound judgement on a number of things . |
| 18 | The relational model is stressed in this text for a number of reasons : |
| 19 | A somewhat smaller proportion , 43 per cent , would prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be another election for a number of years . |
| 20 | This susceptibility is not caused by a single gene defect but is thought to result from the cumulative interaction of a number of genes . |
| 21 | He has acted as scientific adviser on a number of television documentaries including Giant Otter , Beauty and the Beast and Invasion of the Killer Mink , to be screened as part of the new series of Wildlife on One this month . |
| 22 | Various classes of solutions have already been obtained by separating the variables of this equation in a number of different ways . |
| 23 | This discussion of quantification concludes our exploration in this chapter of a number of issues raised by a quantitative analysis of phonological variation in its social context . |
| 24 | Both the Listening Test and the Grammar Test have been the subject of rigorous research over a number of years , with up to forty different nationalities of students . |
| 25 | This has not encouraged clear thinking on a number of other points of vital importance to RE , such as the question of openness and religious commitment presumed by many to be incompatible . |
| 26 | O ppm — on the amount of mercury permissible in fish sold for human consumption and the ban of commercial fishing from a number of waters . |
| 27 | Because of the status philosophy has been awarded in sociology , the conception of the scientific method derived from philosophical ruminations has proved inhibiting to social research in a number of ways . |
| 28 | The industrial action by the University and College lecturers union NATFHE caused some disruption at a number of colleges of higher education and Liverpool 's new university , John Moores . |
| 29 | Section eleven , Grant you have discussed with this Committee on a number of occasions . |
| 30 | Also he s been involved in the England set up to some degree for a number of years , and was an official ‘ spy ’ or scout for England during the last 2 world cups ( time on his hands this time around ! ) . |