Example sentences of "place [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | No further work has taken place for a number of weeks , the barriers have fallen down , one of the warning lights has been thrown into the river and another has been thrown into the hedge several times . |
| 2 | As the result of the demolition of the colleges of education in the 1970s and the mergers that took place between a number of colleges and polytechnics , the latter now have a major stake in teacher education . |
| 3 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 4 | Example unc As you will find in algebra work , it is often useful to use a letter in place of a number that we are trying to find . |
| 5 | A random element is incorporated into stochastic models to summarize or act in place of a number of small , independent processes . |
| 6 | Mixing the familiar and the foreign , new and potentially productive connections may be taking place in a number of areas . |
| 7 | Among dock , river and waterside workers such a movement took place in a number of ports in the 1870s and culminated in the great Liverpool dock strike of 1879 . |
| 8 | Credit pre-screening takes place in a number of ways now . |
| 9 | This is because the reaction , like most other reactions , takes place in a number of steps . |
| 10 | This assertion of individual leadership took place in a number of settings . |
| 11 | Discussions are taking place on a number of other issues , for example , to ensure that these themes are co-ordinated and promoted more strongly , and to investigate the funding of short- term feasibility studies involving applicants from both IT and engineering departments . |
| 12 | I think the quite clearly what comes out erm of reading our papers and the papers of the district , is the er tremendous degree of consultation that 's taken place on a number of occasions back and forth between district and making use of er of emerging working on er on local plans across the county . |
| 13 | Instead , a number of small changes in status and recognitions of the progress towards adult status takes place over a number of years . |
| 14 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 15 | PRIDE OF place at a number of P&O European Ferries ( Dover ) offices are certificates acknowledging their success in becoming the largest UK transport and travel company ever to be awarded the international quality standard BS 5750/ISO 9000 . |