Example sentences of "number of [noun] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then he has held a number of positions both in this country and abroad while serving with the RAF . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We have done a number of things internally in the store which have also contributed to us going forward . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The UNHCR put the total number of refugees worldwide in 1990 at 15,000,000 . |
| 10 | the number of modules not in a Package ( when a Full Listing is specified ) . |
| 11 | There was a big announcement a number of months ago in Derry where a political party said on the headlines of the news about creating 200 jobs in Derry . |
| 12 | In the Gaza Strip soldiers shot dead three Palestinians , bringing the number of deaths there in recent days to 11 . |
| 13 | For example , the number of books currently in print in the United Kingdom and North America is 650,000 , in addition to the millions published since the invention of printing . |
| 14 | Having worked for a number of years now in community health services , previously erm in Yorkshire , in fact I 've only been down in Oxford about four or five months , I 've learnt how important it is in fact to make good working contacts with members and officers of other organizations , and particularly of local authority organizations . |
| 15 | The idea that arousal , or activation , constitutes a unitary physiological dimension was important to a number of theorists particularly in the late fifties ( e.g. Duffy , 1962 ; Lindsley , 1951 ; Malmo , 1959 ) , however , it has since become clear that the numerous physiological measures which have been taken as different indices of arousal are in fact not highly correlated ( Cattell , 1972 ) . |
| 16 | This project examines local authority demand for voluntary and private residential child care in the context of falling numbers of children both in care and in residential accommodation , and in the context of financial constraints in public , voluntary and private sectors alike . |