Example sentences of "[adv] a substantial number " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes economic sense , particularly if the prospectus is printed commercially , to run off a substantial number at one time . |
| 2 | In Wadhurst , ‘ within the wood ’ , this had reached such a pitch that ten of the largest farmers were listed as unfree men , leasing their land from others ; there was also a substantial number of women farmers , such as Agnes at Wyk . |
| 3 | In addition to the morning papers , there are also a substantial number of evening newspapers . |
| 4 | Other than to say I 've already mentioned er in respect of Mr 's point about his view that no new sites would come forward at forty one thousand , well quite clearly a substantial number of new sites in the residue will come forward , these will be new sites . |
| 5 | Its critics claim that any assessment based on arbitrary demographic characteristics rules out a substantial number of people who would have been accepted on the basis of their individual performance , and is therefore unfair to them . |
| 6 | The Girls and Mathematics Unit has carried out a substantial number of project on girls ' classroom performance in Mathematics , spanning nursery to secondary schools . |
| 7 | Now a substantial number insists on standing up to protest . |
| 8 | It protects the defendant in that it prevents the jury from speculating on the possible effect of adult literature on a young person who may just happen to see it , although it does not put the prosecution to proof that a majority , or even a substantial number , of readers would be adversely affected . |
| 9 | If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . |
| 10 | There is then a substantial number , including the mosaics from Tockington Park , rooms 9 and 12 ( T.B.G.A.S. XII ( 1888 ) , 159-169 ) , North Leigh ( Wilson and Sherlock 1980 ) , and Ashcroft House ( Ant- J. XLIX ( 1969 ) , 242 ) datable to the second quarter or the middle years of the century . |
| 11 | It also provides a glimpse of Flanders as a place where a substantial number of fighters could be expensively equipped and then encouraged to leave the county for long periods . |
| 12 | Fire , should it occur in a place where a substantial number of people gather , i.e. a bar or a hotel , may have tragic consequences . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the survival of tax records from the middle years of the century ( and more especially after 1450 ) is more patchy than from the period immediately before , so it is not always possible to trace the disappearance of villages at precisely the time when a substantial number of the desertions seems to have occurred . |