Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sample of 225 women was selected from general practice registers to include a large number of women who had lost a parent in childhood . |
| 2 | RECREATION services provided by Darlington council continue to attract a growing number of visitors . |
| 3 | While no operational difficulties were reported during SeaDocs ' experiment , and while the fees per registration fluctuated between only $300 and $500 , SeaDocs failed to attract a sufficient number of traders and financial institutions to survive . |
| 4 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6 ’ by 9 ’ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 5 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6″ by 9″ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 6 | But as Belgian employees are given extensive rights after being with a company for 12 months , many employers prefer to employ a high number of temporary staff , which may include foreigners . |
| 7 | The institutes of higher education and jurisprudence established in the early nineteenth century began to train a small number of highly competent officials who consciously broke with the haphazard approach of the past . |
| 8 | None of these methods of book provision are suitable for the British public library authorities created by the 1972 reorganization of local government , in which bookstocks have to serve a large number of service points ( usually more than 20 , sometimes as many as 70 ) scattered over a very large area . |
| 9 | The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . |