Example sentences of "for a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already mentioned Equity , and for a number of reasons the entire question of how to enter the actors ' union needs discussion at this point . |
| 2 | So young people , who may be unhappy for a number of reasons , might try sniffing to seek attention or to escape from their problems . |
| 3 | Adrian Jones , who studied for a number of years at Parnham House , has made a similar cabinet , and in the September issue he displays that piece and talks bout his work as a successful furniture-maker . |
| 4 | The majority will receive the ‘ Operation Enterprise ’ pack which has been used for a number of years and is known to the movement . |
| 5 | As an anti-bolt statement it fails for a number of important reasons : |
| 6 | Secondly , there is distortion introduced in the power amplifier following conversion since unavoidable rise and fall times of the output power stage introduce non-linearity if they are not equal which , in practice and for a number of reasons , they will not be . |
| 7 | ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said . |
| 8 | Patricof , which manages funds for a number of UK institutions including Eagle Star and Standard Life , hopes to float the company on the stock market in five years . |
| 9 | The end was in sight for a number of them that day in Chorzow : Alan Ball , sent off , unable to contain his frustration ; Ramsey , the most successful of England 's managers , sacked within a year . |
| 10 | The woman , who will be scarred for life , was treated in hospital for a number of injuries including a 3in cut to her neck . |
| 11 | Controls may be imposed on international trade for a number of different reasons . |
| 12 | In the report CNP calls for a number of proposals including — abandoning the 1998 deadline for renewable energy subsidies ; enabling grants to run for 15 years from the start of any one project ; issuing planning policy guidance on how to deal with planning applications , and giving encouragement to offshore wind generation which they claim could provide 50% of energy needs . |
| 13 | one of these is that when the two parties separate , the manager continues to take commission for a number of years , but only on those records issued or those songs written during his or her term of office . |
| 14 | They are likely to be in debt to their record company for a number of years . |
| 15 | If he or she does n't act for a number of successful bands , he or she is unlikely to have a thorough understanding of accounting in the music business . |
| 16 | After having been in the thick of the battle for a number of years , Haslam found the transition to main board director in 1974 somewhat difficult to adjust to . |
| 17 | This way of reasoning is , however , problematic for a number of reasons . |
| 18 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 19 | For a number of shopaholics , however , that price turns out to be dizzyingly high — when shopping turns from a pleasure , or an occasional treat , into an uncontrollable obsession that chomps its way through the bank account , with sometimes disastrous effects . |
| 20 | I can feel the British people moving very fast towards a position we 've held with some electoral drag for a number of years . |
| 21 | He had a printing press and , through his connection with the American Socialist Workers ' Party , the plates for a number of Trotsky 's books and pamphlets . |
| 22 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 23 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 24 | Thus the name ‘ man ’ is simply a name used for a number of particulars , and any idea of ‘ man ’ is always an idea of some particular man , and simply reminds us of other particulars . |
| 25 | Unlike Hobbes , he does not think that words are general by being collective names for a number of particulars ; ‘ they do not signify a plurality . ’ |
| 26 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 27 | ‘ This is particularly true in the area of the trial , which is close to Peldon , where resistant strains of blackgrass have been seen for a number of years . |
| 28 | This a less familiar technique , used for a number of plants and usually very successful ( the persistence of couch grass and convolvulus from root fragments depends on the same principle ) . |
| 29 | The body requires food for a number of reasons , which scientific study has only relatively recently revealed . |
| 30 | Soper was displeasing to the Free Presbyterians for a number of reasons — his commitment to ecumenism , his left-wing politics — but more than anything it was his rationalism which provoked the ire of conservatives . |