Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I get to see a fair number of architects , and some firms are just barely hanging on ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I get to see a fair number of architects , and some firms are just barely hanging on . |
| 3 | The first 1,000 ports of this network have already been installed and accepted by Telefonica , which intends to introduce a large number of new network services aimed at covering the information needs of Spain 's largest companies . |
| 4 | This is a problem which seems to affect a considerable number of men in their forties and fifties , at a time when there may be a good deal of pressure on them at work and at home . |
| 5 | you seem to show a fair number of women , especially when compared with other galleries . |
| 6 | Inevitably as a journalist you get to know a large number of people , and it 's people who make appointments . |
| 7 | She began to dial a Nice number . |
| 8 | The minister also said that there would be no financial or budgetary disadvantage whatsoever to any GP who had to treat a large number of chronically ill patients . |
| 9 | For the survival of a society you have to have a certain number at one extreme and , therefore , a certain number at the other extreme , for without cowards there are no VCs . |
| 10 | The spreadsheet ca n't handle an interest rate of 0% , so you have to insert a small number , such as 0.00000001% , in cell B9 . |
| 11 | If you need to contact a local number , you will be subject to the same conditions as everyone else . |
| 12 | We intend to use a good number of the shots for promotional and exhibition uses in the run up to the 1993 Year of Railways . |
| 13 | We intend to identify a small number of potential purchasers by discrete enquiries in the UK and through our International M&A Network . |
| 14 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 15 | In accepting this offer , they agree to buy a certain number of books or records over a specific period of time ( eg four books a year ) . |
| 16 | I I 'm certainly not My Lords er un er er an unqualified admirer of all our procedures in local Government , but I do believe that before central Government is further down the road of , of erm usurping functions which are now those of local government it has to persuade a large number of people that its own performance justifies such a course and myself I do n't believe it does . |
| 17 | A mathematical system is distinguished by the fact that it seeks to derive a large number of very complex conclusions from a small number of primitive propositions , employing a small number of primitive ideas . |