Example sentences of "number of [noun] [Wh adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the small number of institutions where the DipHE was established and survived there was both strong commitment and , at least initially , interest by schools , further education colleges and the press .
2 Hd ( x , y ) is the number of positions where the two tuples have different entries .
3 Though the number of cases where a link between HIV/AIDS and child sexual abuse has been made is relatively small , the long-term implications can not be ignored .
4 There are also a number of cases where the Commission has held that the banning of meetings and procession for a restricted period because of fears for public safety , such bans being under the democratic laws of a State , were not in contravention of the Convention .
5 While there a large number of cases where the victims are juveniles , there are many others where the newspapers would be allowed by law to identify the victim .
6 The passing of the Occupiers ' Liability Act 1984 means that there should now be an insignificant number of cases where the court is asked to find implied permission .
7 We have encountered a number of difficulties where the calculation of the scheme charge is certainly not what the customer expects to see on his bill . ’
8 New ventures : LASMO is investigating new venture possibilities in a number of countries where the Company already has a presence , as well as countries in which LASMO is not presently represented , included the CIS .
9 Having looked at the services export houses have to offer , we shall now look at a number of reasons why a manufacturer might want to use one .
10 Diversion — bringing up any number of reasons why the treatment of the individual sufferer , or consideration of the secondary effects upon the family , is not the prime problem requiring consideration at this particular time .
11 The number of surfaces where the test applies is extremely limited and includes :
12 The number of families where the head of household faced an implicit marginal tax rate greater than 70% in fact doubled after 1988 to over half a million .
13 A spokesman said they had been overwhelmed by the number of applications when the new disability living benefit was announced and said it had taken longer than anticipated to sort out .
14 There are a large number of organisations where the converse is true : it is not possible to find much talent and they do not occupy the time and effort of executive searchers .
15 The tuning delay is given as a number of seconds where a value of 0 provides no delay and any value greater than 60 seconds is defaulted to 60 .
16 This general principle is , however , subject to a number of exceptions where a shareholder may bring a derivative action on behalf of the company .
17 To that general principle , however , there would seem to be a number of exceptions where the court will not simply accept the verdict of the solicitors as expressed in their own agreement .
18 Mike Eveling , of the Inland Revenue , said : ‘ If we iron out problems now we will reduce our own workload by cutting the number of appeals when the values are announced . ’
19 ‘ I have viewed a number of plants where the inception of computer equipment is viewed as a way to further de-skill the worker , and thereby lower his wage , ’ Melman added .
20 Ideally one could construct a model of the fossil to test out these various functions in experiments , but the number of examples where the analysis has been pursued this far are limited .
21 Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad .
22 In 1982 the Soviet Third World specialist Primakov asserted that ‘ an understanding on the military neutralisation of a number of regions where an accumulation of armed forces and armaments is taking place would be of great significance ’ .
23 There are a number of occasions when a gift other than the product might be considered .
24 The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small .
25 I do not include in that 70 the number of occasions when the hon. Members for Brightside and for Dagenham have said contradictory things .
26 I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights .
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