Example sentences of "large [noun pl] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are the three largest forms of employment for the people of Halifax ? |
| 2 | We concentrated on the three largest groups of workers in the oil industry ( ‘ oil workers ’ ) in northern Scotland in the late 1970s : construction workers of the oil terminal at Sullom Voe ( Shetland ) ; construction workers of the Flotta oil terminal ( Orkney ) ; and offshore workers on rigs and platforms . |
| 3 | Edinburgh hosts one of the UK 's largest concentrations of students from China as well as a substantial ‘ Chinatown ’ and students in the Department of East Asian Studies benefit from its intimate relations with both groups . |
| 4 | The region also has one of the largest concentrations of wildlife in the world . |
| 5 | There is now a considerable market value attaching to an accurate up-to-date and selective address list , and some of the largest collections of data in the private sector , running to thirty million entries or more in some cases , are amassed in this way . |
| 6 | Large crowds of Catholics from Poland , Ukraine and Belarus are expected to flock to hear the Pope , although officials in Vilnius said thousands of beds prepared for pilgrims were still unclaimed . |
| 7 | Aerobic exercise is exercise that stimulates the large groups of muscles in your body , getting them to contract rhythmically . |
| 8 | The arrival of large groups of people at the same time will always mean pressure on the reception staff , hall porters and other departments . |
| 9 | There is no room to squeeze in more runways , and no large groups of people in the advanced countries would tolerate vast new airports in their back yards . |
| 10 | ‘ Businessmen are in daily contact with large groups of people in their factories and offices , ’ he said . |
| 11 | It is wrong to extend such concepts to explain the wholesale replacement of large groups of animals by others . |
| 12 | The problem remains that the majority of climbers and hillwalkers regard large groups of children in the mountains with some resentment and suspect the motives of those who organise them , relying on anecdotal evidence to back up these doubts . |
| 13 | It was also French colonial policy for there to be larger concentrations of Europeans in their territories . |
| 14 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 15 | Today the minority populations are distributed across the country with large concentrations of settlements in Greater London , Bedfordshire , Cardiff , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Lancashire , Leicestershire , the Midlands and Yorkshire . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the news from the season just past is that the US field party has discovered three more large concentrations of meteorites in a newly explored region of Antarctica . |
| 17 | Export marketing might be concentrated for example on South East Asian countries that have relatively high per capita income and large concentrations of population in cities such as Singapore , Hong Kong , Manila , Canton or Djakarta. * Demography — in which the population is categorised according to age , sex , socio-economic group , income , housing , family characteristics and stage in family cycle . |
| 18 | A report by the Department of the Environment admits that the practice of planting large stands of conifers on British uplands has worsened the effects of acid rain , resulting in the deaths of salmon , trout and frogs , and the pollution of upland streams . |
| 19 | The food plant for both the small tortoiseshell and the peacock is the stinging nettle , so to stand the best chance of finding their caterpillars , start inspecting large clumps of nettles about the middle of May . |
| 20 | Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths . |
| 21 | Because lords owned large tracts of land at a time when the opportunities for its exploitation were particularly favourable , and could add to this profit from tolls and customs on increasing trade , they could hardly avoid a substantial increase in their resources in the course of the eleventh century . |
| 22 | The authorities have also claimed that the use of large tracts of land for military purposes has caused considerable inconvenience to local people . |
| 23 | The lucrative sugar-beet industry had led to the buying up of large tracts of land before the World War . |
| 24 | Large tracts of country in this part of England , especially in Sussex , Kent and Essex , had anciently been thickly wooded and never brought within the open-field system . |
| 25 | More recently , the BLM has leased large tracts of wilderness to be used as garbage dumps for cities in the Los Angeles area . |
| 26 | There are the Old People 's Associations , about 100 of them , which do not pay dividends and , therefore , function as charitable institutions ; also counted as charities are the Housing Trusts , such as the Peabody , Astor , Guinness , Lewis and Sutton Trusts , which started to build large blocks of flats in industrial areas at an early date . |
| 27 | Volumes of almost 900m shares reflected not only the Midland placing , but also a sizeable number of program trades , where institutions inject or extract large blocks of funds across a range of stocks at a pre-arranged time and at pre-determined prices . |
| 28 | From the primitive ‘ animism ’ ( a word invented by him ) the road led to the higher monotheistic religions , and eventually the triumph of science which , capable of explaining increasingly large areas of experience without reference to spirit , would ‘ in one department after another substitute for independent voluntary action the working out of systematic law ’ . |
| 29 | By Paul Brown Environment Correspondent CHANGES in government policy are about to release large areas of land for commercial forestry and halt the feud between the timber trade and environmental groups over the conservation of upland areas . |
| 30 | Forestry is to a certain extent in conflict with agriculture not only because it removes large areas of land from farming for 50 or more years , but also because in its modern forms of organisation it tends to employ fewer local people . |