Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much you pay for the eurocheque service depends on the number of cheques you issue , but there is an annual fee of £5 for your eurocheque card . |
| 2 | There 's no limit on the number of cheques you can issue , but do make sure you have enough money in you account to cover them . |
| 3 | because it , the biggest cost us teachers and the number of teachers you need is governed by the number of |
| 4 | There are a number of activities you could record . |
| 5 | These rates are fairly similar to those found in a large-scale Home Office survey in 1978 although , because a higher number of people are now granted bail , it follows that the number of offences they commit will also be higher . |
| 6 | In differentiated goods markets firms may compete on the number of brands they put on the market , in quality and in marketing ( including advertising ) . |
| 7 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
| 8 | And there 's no limit on the number of calls you can make in any one year . |
| 9 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 10 | In the case of a number of movements it is usual , after a movement in a contrasting key , to return to one in the tonic . |
| 11 | Should he ration the number of pages he read per day or should he just read the book straight through ? |
| 12 | The letter is concerned with the total number of lines she has written and with choosing one or two pieces which will represent her best work . |
| 13 | Leapor communicated with a ‘ Gentleman ’ about the choice of a specimen to be printed with the proposals , about revisions , and about the total number of lines she had written [ see ML , 2 , 314–315 ] . |
| 14 | Erm organs are classified by the number of stops they have or something , is n't it ? |
| 15 | And the mention of twenty years reminds me that that must be the number of summers you own to , Miss Abbott and that being young and having spent the afternoon in the sea air , you must be hungry . ’ |
| 16 | There are a number of routes you could take if you want to work in a job where you 'll be looking after the countryside . |
| 17 | The greater the number of lectures you must attend , the tighter and more automatic must be your techniques , or else you will find after a week or two that you have only a mass of undigested scribbles as the poor product of the many lectures you have attended . |
| 18 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 19 | Females are much less variable in the number of offspring they produce . |
| 20 | So we either , in terms of number of institutions I would think we probably count it as an F E institution , because this the A level is , is much smaller than the other F E. But in terms of F E students and sixth form students , what I would want to do is count the A level students as sixth form students . |
| 21 | Thus , the average amount indicated as spent by the authorities with an above average number of programmes was approximately £5,000 , for authorities with a medium number of programmes it was approximately £2,000 , and for other authorities , £600 . |
| 22 | Despite a reputation for excellent work on the relatively small number of accounts they handled , they had no international reputation and certainly would n't be quoted among the top twenty of British advertising agencies as far as billings were concerned . |
| 23 | It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance . |
| 24 | Even as late as last May we had the opportunity for restructuring a number of committees we flunked it . |
| 25 | That I think gets us to the erm paper which I put down this morning , erm based upon erm primarily based upon that last erm graph , an and Graham 's best estimate of our likely out turn for this year , because they erm , in fact you 're , erm you 're reckoning that the erm , the number of complaints we receive by the thirty first of March next year , it 'll be four two fo four two , is your best seasonally adjusted guess . |
| 26 | Yesterday the Banking Ombudsman revealed that the number of complaints he received last year jumped by 60 per cent . |
| 27 | While he 's often only known for number of aces he blasts — 929 so far this year — last night his all-round game was on show and he served only six aces . |
| 28 | on a limited number of schemes we have been doing the estimates for four or five years |
| 29 | Although this is bought through a massive number of connections it seems to have a number of advantages over previously mentioned strategies : |
| 30 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |