Example sentences of "[adv] a limited number " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only a limited number of pensioners who at present enjoy substantial occupational pensions . |
| 2 | These patterns varied from language to language , but only a limited number of such patterns seemed to occur , so that the same pattern of kinship terminology was found among totally unrelated peoples speaking totally unrelated languages . |
| 3 | If the fossil is constructed in a certain way , then there are only a limited number of ‘ jobs ’ that the structure could perform . |
| 4 | Under our agreement with Waterloo University , where the accessing software , PAT , was developed , we are able to distribute only a limited number of copies of the tape for research purposes and we have nearly reached our ceiling . |
| 5 | There are , in fact only a limited number of sites in the world with sufficient tide range to make such schemes cost effective . |
| 6 | Realistically , however , only a limited number of employers are likely to agree to a potentially costly and open-ended liability of that sort . |
| 7 | This type of award is , however , highly competitive and only a limited number of candidates will be successful . |
| 8 | Further validation is needed , says the NII , before it will accept CEGB assurances that only a limited number of rods will experience significant ballooning . |
| 9 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 10 | Though it is likely that the capital cost of a robot will continue to fall quite rapidly relative to wage costs , there are only a limited number of applications for robots of the current generation of capability . |
| 11 | ‘ After flying the plane I have a lot of respect for the guys , who at 20 years of age and with only a limited number of flight hours in a T-6 , soloed in this plane . ’ |
| 12 | Only a limited number of national public projects have remained fully funded : those in the fields of health , justice , the fight against Aids and Venice . |
| 13 | Sport becomes relegated to the peripheries , whereas , for many black kids , it retains centrality — not because the other areas are seen as worse risks , but because they are seen as less accessible , they believe there are only a limited number of entrances to the upper reaches of the employment world . |
| 14 | Only a limited number of AS.7s were built , production concentrating on the T.7 variant used to train FAA observers , this operating from shore bases minus a deck-arrester hook . |
| 15 | Though in this form the list looks a long one , it must be remembered that only a limited number of schools have introduced more than a few changes . |
| 16 | Broca ( 1961 , in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) had reported that a series of patients with severe disturbances of speech had all suffered damage to the inferior part of the third frontal convolutions of their left hemispheres and Jackson ( in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) had described cases of ‘ petit mal ’ epilepsy which involved only a limited number of ‘ faculties ’ . |
| 17 | It required only a limited number of Joyce 's searing denunciations of Jewry to undo all his leader 's soothing words . |
| 18 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 19 | By asking the pupils to construct lists of similar words you are affirming the underlying logic of English spelling — that there are patterns and families , that particular sounds may have different ways of being written down , but that there are only a limited number of ways , and they do actually obey certain rules . |
| 20 | Perhaps an illustration can make this difference clear : faced with the word saucer to read aloud , there are only a limited number of ways in which it can be read , given the rules of English orthography . |
| 21 | The vast majority of series involve two kinds of contrast : one type is found in only a limited number of lexical pairs ; the other type recurs much more freely . |
| 22 | Davis and Moore assume that only a limited number of individuals have the talent to acquire the skills necessary for the functionally most important positions . |
| 23 | Implicit is the idea that A has some form of control over B , or at least a strong bargaining position that enables A to score a ‘ victory ’ over B. Companies sometimes have power of this kind over suppliers , as where the company is one of only a limited number of buyers of a supplier 's goods or services , and even to an extent over governments , manifested , for example , in negotiations over subsidies or in successful attempts to dilute the content of regulation . |
| 24 | Since only a limited number of stated capacities grant possessory rights and enable liability those capacities must be easily ascertainable . |
| 25 | While arbitrage is open to any investor , these two alternatives strategies , which will now be explained , are open to only a limited number of investors . |
| 26 | There were no vegetables — the Yek grew only a limited number — and he selected an apple from a pile in a bowl and started to peel it with his d'jaga . |
| 27 | When visiting the neighbouring bay , only a limited number of rigs can be carried along , so choice will then be more restricted . |
| 28 | Observing a pattern of these various damaging consequences in the sufferer 's life may give the suggestion that Chemical Dependency may be the underlying cause simply because there is only a limited number of other possible causes of such devastation . |
| 29 | The first-time fighter arriving on the competition scene has only a limited number of techniques . |
| 30 | Apart from the people speaking for you and for the Council , and the Appeal Committee members themselves , only a limited number of people may be at a hearing . |