Example sentences of "number of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further studies investigate what occurs when a person is faced with a number of faces simultaneously from which one or more may be recognised . |
| 2 | Since then he has held a number of positions both in this country and abroad while serving with the RAF . |
| 3 | Now clearly there are , you know , methodological issues here , who replied on the questionnaire and so on , but there are clearly a very large number of replies , a very large number of students up in the , you know , several hundreds , who perceive themselves to be being sexually harassed . |
| 4 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 5 | While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux . |
| 6 | To determine to which technical level an element belongs , one needs only to count the number of nodes downwards from the origin ( each element constitutes a node ) : the unique first element constitutes level 1 , all elements one node removed from the origin constitute level 2 , all elements two nodes removed constitute level 3 , and so on ( in a non-branching hierarchy , there is only one element at each level ) : |
| 7 | We have done a number of things internally in the store which have also contributed to us going forward . |
| 8 | A number of scholars up to the present have held that Mozart intended no difference in meaning between the two symbols . |
| 9 | It should be emphasized that much information gained from petrofabric research can be used to back up field studies and forms an aid to provenance studies , including facies analysis and construction of depositional models ; these applications are commonly lost amongst an ever-growing number of papers solely on aspects of diagenesis . |
| 10 | The probability of selecting the original address had been proportional to the number of electors originally on the register ; this was a sensible procedure if the number of electors had not changed . |
| 11 | In subsequent analysis , therefore , all responses from individuals at addresses which had changed electors were weighted by the number of adults at the address divided by the number of electors originally on the register for that address . |
| 12 | A common situation which creates problems is the use of a single report to identify a large number of failures , or to mix a number of failures in with a variety of suggestions . |
| 13 | A common situation which creates problems is the use of a single report to identify a large number of failures , or to mix a number of failures in with a variety of suggestions . |
| 14 | I have received a number of requests recently from clients who have been sent claims for payment which , while clearly including a VAT element , contain the words ‘ this is not a VAT invoice ’ . |
| 15 | The Government has made welcome propositions er on a number of matters both in relation to the er police er part of the Bill and the Magistrates Court 's part of the Bill . |
| 16 | But I think the other incredibly important thing that you said was about the number of boys here from public schools as well and I think that |
| 17 | Collective embassies with a number of members often of formally equal rank , which had been common in the sixteenth century , rapidly ceased to be so . |
| 18 | Estimates range from several thousands to tens of thousands of thyroid cancers arising from the exposure to iodine-131 and a similar number of cancers elsewhere in the body from caesium-137 . |
| 19 | The number of demonstrators outside on Victory Square had grown , meanwhile , to about 8,000 . |
| 20 | A number of proposals both at the unofficial and the official level were made to overcome the shortage of finance . |
| 21 | It says that output grew by 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 , with the number of companies up from 144,000 in 1980 to 171,000 in 1991 . |
| 22 | It so happens that the names Upehull , Upsall and Upshall occur in the records of one very small village — the first in a lay subsidy roll of 1327 , the second in a manorial court roll of November 1550 , and the third in a number of documents down to the latest twentieth-century electoral rolls . |
| 23 | The basic rule in s.179 is , however , subject to s.180(1) , as amended , CA 1989 , which permits disclosure of the relevant information in a number of circumstances eg. for the purpose of enabling or assisting an overseas regulatory authority to exercise its regulatory functions . |
| 24 | There were a significant number of specialists even in the early decades of the century , including both the exponents of the Linnaean tradition of classification and the philosophical naturalists , who hoped to achieve something more than mere cataloguing . |
| 25 | It may well be that when the archaeologists and historians have studied a sufficient number of towns intensively in this country , as they have done abroad , we shall add something appreciable to our knowledge of English history , knowledge which we could get in no other way . |
| 26 | Hitchens Quality Homes has developed a number of properties close to the golf club , ranging from two bedroom detached bungalows ( £159,500 ) to three bedroom three storey houses ( £169,950 ) . |
| 27 | The South West Region plays host to a vast number of divers all over the country . |
| 28 | For a second day yesterday , snipers fired on peace protesters in the city , killing two or more and taking the number of casualties there since Sunday to at least 11 dead and more than 100 wounded . |
| 29 | Mr. Latham , for the plaintiff , submitted that it would be quite wrong to assume that the Act of 1976 has effectively satisfied the requirements of justice identified by Lamont J. He observed that our law of limitation leaves scope for a large number of claims still to be brought by plaintiffs born before 1976 . |
| 30 | In Out and Such one discourse is brought to bear on another through metaphor ; in Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon the same type of metaphor is used to bring a number of discourses together in an increasingly interrogative conjunction . |