Example sentences of "a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , any task which required the pupil to break down a number into its place value components — hundreds , tens etc. — was more demanding . |
| 2 | A function which converts a character string representing a number into numeric form . |
| 3 | Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’ |
| 4 | On the marker posts that you see , the next time you , you travel past them at ninety miles an hour if you get time to see them , there is actually , a picture of the telephone headset and a number under that headset there will be an arrow pointing you in the direction of the nearest emergency telephone . |
| 5 | It may also be noted that if this method is employed then the first number chosen should be by random means rather than just ‘ saying a number between 1 and 10 ’ since it is well known that choices between these limits do not come out anything like randomly — the number 7 being particularly popular . |
| 6 | The girls are all numbered and the boy is asked to say a number between , say , one and eleven . |
| 7 | Mind reading with hands on head You as the mind reader leave the room and the other people choose a number between one and ten . |
| 8 | THINK of a number between one and ten . |
| 9 | Heritability is a number between 0 and 1 , which expresses the extent to which the variation of the trait is due to variation in genotypes and in environments . |
| 10 | A state definition consists of a name of up to 64 characters and a number between 0 and 100 . |
| 11 | He is probably most famous for his fighter designs during World War Two although personally he was much more interested in small sporting types of which he designed quite a number over the years . |
| 12 | This is an important concept , because the 1988 Act states that total admissions in any school year must not be restricted to a number below the school 's standard number . |
| 13 | Home care Coordinator , Margaret Gillies , currently has a team of 20 volunteers from a variety of churches providing practical help to a number of clients already referred . |
| 14 | Anthony Kasozi 's work as ACET 's Director in uganda has recently received financial support form Tear Fund which has enabled him , together with ACET General Manager , Maurice Adams , to identify a number of church-based projects for the coming year . |
| 15 | Since you are agreeing to make regular payments over a number of years , it is probably easier for you to pay by Banker 's Order or Direct Debit Mandate when the payments will automatically be made from your bank account . |
| 16 | A new ‘ Anti-Terror Law ’ , which combines a number of new provisions for the investigation and trial of persons suspected of acts of political violence or association with violent political opposition groups , was approved by President Ozal on 17 April . |
| 17 | Most of those released are non-political prisoners convicted of criminal offences , but a number of prisoners of conscience will also be released . |
| 18 | An AI mission to Argentina in November 1976 , led by Lord Avebury , was followed everywhere by twenty plainclothes policemen who questioned , intimidated and even detained a number of people whom they meet . |
| 19 | Dr Manorani spoke at a number of Amnesty meetings last autumn . |
| 20 | A number of the officers arrested were executed almost immediately . |
| 21 | In a number of places Pilinski completely misunderstood the ‘ indications ’ of the original . ’ |
| 22 | Such caution is prudent in a business where errors of judgement can be extremely expensive ; at least the reader of an auction catalogue knows clearly what view has been taken by the cataloguer on a number of questions . |
| 23 | Luckily for the curious , this historical sideline can be followed up in a number of publications , both about individuals and institutions . |
| 24 | The variations and exceptions to these brief generalised statements can be found in a number of books , some by investigative outsiders , some in memoirs by dealers and others interested in the market . |
| 25 | There are a number of other ways in which the work could |
| 26 | In London , where he spent a number of years , he had gained a reputation as a crook and as a threatener of whites and defender of the coloured-immigrant population . |
| 27 | Hawksmoor speaks the words of romantic duality , and is in a number of ways a double book . |
| 28 | A little earlier , a view of Eliot 's has been paraphrased : that ‘ there is no ‘ truth ’ to be found ’ in the world , ‘ only a number of styles and interpretations — one laid upon the other in an endless and apparently meaningless process ’ . |
| 29 | But it was clear , and is clearer still in retrospect , that on a number of occasions an old decorum had been deferred to , or embraced . |
| 30 | In the ambience and tradition to which I am referring personality is defined in terms of breadth and contrast ; the effect is at once stereophonically-internal — a number of speakers has been installed , so to speak — and invasive . |