Example sentences of "[noun] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the centuries a number of species have become extinct , among them the Mexican grizzly bear , great auk and passenger pigeon . |
| 2 | It may be taken as fact that during the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries a number of joint muderris/muftiliks came into existence in the provinces . |
| 3 | There are in this force a number of young men who have fixed hours of duty — 8.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. with every Sunday off . |
| 4 | Section 5(3) affords to the defendant a number of defences relating to lack of fault that are not available on a charge under section 4 . |
| 5 | After the theft a number of the Tretyakov 's curators condemned the gallery 's exhibition policy , calling it ‘ unworthy of a prestige gallery ’ , leading the Ministry of Culture to audit the foreign exhibition activities of all Soviet museums . |
| 6 | When crops failed , people could not afford to buy imported rice anyway , though in some districts a number of villagers received income from seasonal work on plantations . |
| 7 | Sometimes it is awkward because with all the excitement you tend to go to the lavatory a number of times before the race , which leads to difficulty later on . |
| 8 | The presence of nitrates can be easily explained by the fact that human burials had taken place within the church : during the exploration programme a number of skeletons and well preserved human remains have been discovered . |
| 9 | The department also offers in this programme a number of courses in Ancient Near Eastern Religions . |
| 10 | Ershad 's weakened position was revealed on Dec. 3 when he made a national broadcast offering the opposition a number of concessions , including simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections in June 1991 . |
| 11 | Often the same or a similar fault can occur to the same aircraft a number of sectors later . |
| 12 | In social stratification theory and its application in research a number of assumptions made about the role of women serve to guarantee their invisibility . |
| 13 | Two prominent Tories , Danby and Compton , had been involved in the invitation to William , the bishops refused to bow to pressure from James to issue a repudiation of the invitation , whilst in the provinces a number of leading Tories rallied to William 's cause . |
| 14 | It is convenient to consider separately in this chapter a number of other exact solutions that satisfy this same condition . |
| 15 | In the previous chapter a number of important decisions were taken which enable us to establish the location of lexical elements within sentences , that is to say , to delimit them syntagmatically . |
| 16 | For the rest of this chapter a number of different problems will be discussed comparatively briefly . |
| 17 | Once clear of the Swamp a number of minor paths led off to left and right . |
| 18 | On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France . |
| 19 | We lead-managed a number of transactions noteworthy for their size , structure , or both . |
| 20 | Although the system illustrated receives its phase control signals from a microprocessor a number of less sophisticated alternatives are presented later in this Chapter . |
| 21 | In the textile industry a number of technical inventions produced an increase in output ; a way had been found of using coal , in the form of coke , to smelt iron ; and the steam engine was so improved that it provided a new source of power . |
| 22 | In the United States a number of factors have combined to render the bureaucracy more open to public scrutiny . |
| 23 | The spinning wheel display brought to light a number of names of spinning wheel makers , and a list was published in the former Scotland 's Magazine in 1963 ( Vol 59 No 7 ) . |
| 24 | It will be obvious that during these months a number of changes must occur in the mother 's body also . |
| 25 | I have included in the review a number of quite lengthy verbatim quotations . |
| 26 | A letter sent to shareholders by the club 's legal adviser , Gordon Marshall , makes it clear that during the action a number of concessions had been obtained from the Deans family . |
| 27 | There is a theatre , baths , the impressive library and an odeon mainly erected in the second century A.D. Like Pompeii a number of streets have been uncovered , some marble paved and with remains on each side of shops , houses and public buildings . |
| 28 | She told Richard a number of stories on the subject , some of them taken from the daily papers , and suggested that he might turn the matter over in his mind . |
| 29 | In fact a computer manufacturer normally designs a number of compatible models rather than a single computer , and these cover a range of speeds , capacities , and costs . |
| 30 | As an aid to exploration for gas in the Southern North Sea and adjacent north European areas a number of authors have endeavoured to define the extent of mature Coal Measures using coal rank and vitrinite reflectance parameters ( Barnard and Cooper , 1983 ; Bartenstein , 1979 ; Eames , 1975 ; Teichmüller , this volume ) . |