Example sentences of "[art] great number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banking is the occupation yielding the greatest number of high salaries . |
| 2 | THOSE who care about such things are at present locked in combat over the issue of whether the greatest number of British skiers go to Austria ( which traditionally enjoys the distinction ) or to France ( which is the flavour of the decade ) . |
| 3 | 3 Each week 's prizes will be awarded to those entrants who have found the greatest number of car words in the square . |
| 4 | I have noticed that it has always been the acers that have aroused the greatest number of inquiries from readers visiting The Daily Telegraph 's garden at the Chelsea Flower Show ( preparations for this year 's are already advanced , by the way ) . |
| 5 | The greatest number of forms is to be found in the group loosely called the Japanese type , Acer palmatum . |
| 6 | Orkney , renowned for its quality beef cattle , had the greatest number of farms with beef cows . |
| 7 | Economic forces act as a check on political power and promote the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 8 | Other noteworthy plantings were mentioned by Miller : the Duke of Norfolk had , at Worksop , the greatest number of Magnolia glauca then growing in England ; while in Sir John Collinson 's garden at Exeter , he had seen the largest Magnolia grandiflora in the country . |
| 9 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 10 | Mrs. Drummond took the Minutes and felt obliged to record in detail the instructions given to the ladies on how to cast a vote by means of placing a cross against a preferred choice , those ‘ with the greatest number of crosses being elected ’ . |
| 11 | He found that the greatest number of large-scale strikes broke out when the presidents were known for their populist and pro-worker policies . |
| 12 | Probably the greatest number were always corn mills , those more distant being used to provide a steady income . |
| 13 | The greatest number , however , were self-employed men who often had some small property to hand down along with the know-how of their trade . |
| 14 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 15 | In the two companies with the greatest number of businesses it was felt that the individual business units have a better knowledge of the specific economic factors which directly affect their own markets . |
| 16 | Hope asked the greatest number of questions , 782 , while Tite , who seems to have been anxious to display his professional knowledge as well as counteract Hope 's stylistic bias , was a persistent questioner , with 426 questions . |
| 17 | The difficulties of transmission are well illustrated in beetles , which are the hosts for the greatest number of Laboulbeniales . |
| 18 | Failing the development of a vaccine for human beings to protect themselves against malaria , or a ‘ one-shot ’ radical drug , or a long-lasting preventative medicine , the control of the mosquito vector must produce the greatest benefit to the greatest number in the shortest time . |
| 19 | The greatest number of animal experiments that the computers are taking over are in cardiovascular studies , including one involving shock . |
| 20 | The greatest number will be those returning for their second , third , fourth or later terms . |
| 21 | The second variant is the one that has produced the greatest number of specific theories of cyclical crisis . |
| 22 | The external doors , of course , admit the greatest number of draughts , so apart from fitting excluders , it is also worth hanging a heavy curtain over the inside of the front and back doors . |
| 23 | The greatest number I have ever encountered in a single dead-end is nine . |
| 24 | To round off the evening the pope awarded prizes to the men who had enjoyed the favours of the greatest number of dancers . |
| 25 | The Ben Hird Sword commemorates his seventy-two year association with the event , and is awarded for the greatest number of hits by a longbowman . |
| 26 | Peter Winch refers to Mill 's acceptance of the axiom , the greatest happiness of the greatest number , as the main principle of morality . |
| 27 | Gandhi was sufficiently aware of the utilitarian formula of the greatest happiness of the greatest number to realize that he was completely at odds with it as an interpretation of the aim anti purpose of life and as a principle of morality . |
| 28 | He who seeks the welfare of all can not be satisfied with the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 29 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
| 30 | the greatest happiness of the greatest number , as the main principle of morality in spite of Gandhi 's use of the notion of means and ends . |