Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it already had a number of blue chip clients , such as Wm Low and the Scottish Development Agency ( and now Scottish Enterprise ) , perhaps what made the firm 's reputation was the way it handled Scottish electricity privatisation for the Government , an appointment made before the Shandwick deal . |
| 2 | It already has a number of other special interest sections including the financial interest section and legal advisory and security groups to support members . |
| 3 | For Jackie , it also brought a number of painful reminders that in those days , perhaps only a trifle more than now , driver mortality was a fact of life . |
| 4 | But it also raised a number of important questions , which are now addressed : |
| 5 | This result encourages the conclusion that appropriate contextual cues must be present for satisfactory retrieval of the effects of the effects of initial conditioning ; but it also poses a number of further questions . |
| 6 | It also made a number of exhortations , for example that Parliaments ought to be held frequently , elections ought to be free , and that free speech ought to be guaranteed . |
| 7 | It also presents a number of risks and pitfalls , which , with the right help you can minimise . |
| 8 | The material which has been gathered supports this contention and it also raises a number of issues concerning the needs of staff , as well as students , at a time when the total quality of the teaching/learning experience is assuming a certain prominence throughout the HE sector . |
| 9 | It also outlined a number of proposals that states might take into account in the drawing up of a global action plan at the February 1990 special session , including , among others : increased public information and education ; the possibility of a UN decade against drugs ; the establishment of a UN capability to provide training and equipment for national anti-drug forces ; relevant measures to prevent the laundering of drug monies and the establishment of a UN facility to gather information on this ; and development and technical assistance programmes aimed at strengthening local economies and legal systems against drugs . |
| 10 | It also provides a number of other functions . |
| 11 | Not only does it constitute the object of its own criticism , it also contains a number of theories of this criticism , and in a recursive move that can truly be termed deconstructive , it presents criticism of these theories and it narrativizes this criticism . |
| 12 | It also covers a number of those workers who appear in the self-employed statistics . |
| 13 | It also makes a number of more general theoretical interventions . |
| 14 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 15 | Doing it immediately has a number of advantages : |