Example sentences of "number of [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years indiscriminate dumping has resulted in a large number of environmentally dangerous sites that are leaking toxic and hazardous chemicals . |
| 2 | The size and hydrophobicity of the binding pocket is also consistent with the ability of A2U to bind a number of environmentally important chemicals found in unleaded petrol and shown to induce A2U nephropathy in rats . |
| 3 | Although reductions in the number of clinically apparent cases may mask the circulation of wild polioviruses in the absence of highly sensitive surveillance systems , and potentially delay implementation of control measures , further advances in laboratory techniques to detect wild poliovirus in the environment should increase the likelihood of detection of ‘ silent ’ spread of infection . |
| 4 | There are a number of reasonably palatable preparations of guar now available . |
| 5 | They all produce a growing number of reasonably high calibre , attractive and inexpensive rugs . |
| 6 | Essentials include a good-quality , wide carrying-strap and a sufficient number of approximately ½-inch ( 1.25-centimetre ) breather holes bored at each end . |
| 7 | The complaints , cautions and convictions for offences relating to animals in the UK are horrifying , and are as much a reflection of the relative toughness of our laws as the number of predominantly domestic pets kept per capita . |
| 8 | It is also clear that current merger policy has been somewhat permissive , for while it has been effective in preventing a limited number of individually important mergers , it has had little impact upon the level of merger activity as a whole . |
| 9 | The judiciary should employ substantive review as one method of ensuring that the grant of such largesse does not become a mechanism for illegitimately regulating a large number of peripherally related activities . |
| 10 | There were three display screens , two sets of control panels and , over and above all , a considerable number of heavily padded earphones . |
| 11 | An extensive programme of geological thin-sectioning of stone implements in various universities over the last 30 years has shown quite clearly that between 3000 and 1500 BC there were a number of heavily exploited sources of stone and flint which were used to make axes and other implements . |
| 12 | The number of officially registered objectors had by now almost doubled , to over 20,000 , all of whom had to be entered on a database and then sent information . |
| 13 | This time span incorporates a number of mechanistically distinct temporal components , which include post-tetanic potentiation ( PTP ) , short-term potentiation ( STP ) and LTP . |
| 14 | The number of mildly handicapped children in special education fell from 76,000 to under 70,000 in England between 1976 and 1981 . |
| 15 | Out of this total number of over 1,000 firefighting staff , only two are women . |
| 16 | In such cases there may be a need to take account of a somewhat larger number of markedly different national contexts in order to make possible a more precise isolation of explanatory variables ( Sorge , 1976 ) . |
| 17 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 18 | Will he confim that if unemployment figures were counted today on the same basis as they were in 1979 employment Ministers would be forced to stand at the Dispatch Box and admit that the number of economically active people who are unemployed in Great Britain today is 3.75 million ? |
| 19 | The number of phonemically equivalent words returned by LA seems to be affected by the factors discussed below . |
| 20 | Abnormal fibrous tissue overgrowth has long been known to affect a number of widely separate organ systems . |
| 21 | This is not a suggestion we agree with , but it is a popular one , especially in North America where a number of closely related discussions have emerged recently about the content of feminist philosophy , or the form a feminist critique of philosophy should take ( Flax , 1983 ; Hartsock , 1983 ; Jaggar , 1983 ; and see also Ruth , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | I want rather , by focusing on a small number of closely related questions , and simple ones at that , to suggest something of how all this came about and why it matters . |
| 23 | Although the three purified GGFs are products of one gene , specific assignment of a single mRNA to each protein is made difficult by the large number of alternatively spliced mRNA variants . |
| 24 | The import and export of goods is more complicated than conducting domestic business within a single country , for a number of largely self-evident reasons . |
| 25 | Each of the questions above is worth exploring , especially because final paragraphs and sentences often fall into one of a number of largely unsatisfactory idioms , each with its own way of dealing with ending less as an opportunity than as an escape . |
| 26 | The optic tract projects to a number of anatomically distinct regions in the brainstem , each of which makes a unique contribution to visual function . |
| 27 | The need to provide suitable jobs for an ever-growing number of even qualified job-seekers , much less the unqualified ones described by writers such as Kocu Bey , is likewise almost certainly responsible for the considerable elaboration of the grades of medreses which occurred from the late sixteenth century onwards . |
| 28 | The first of these areas in the sixth century was usually divided up into a number of geographically coherent kingdoms . |
| 29 | Imagine the economy as consisting of a large number of geographically separate markets . |
| 30 | As we have explained above , we are imagining that the economy consists of a large number of geographically separate markets or islands . |