Example sentences of "[been] [verb] by a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | by using a selection of published material , that Islay has been occupied by a considerable number of people for a very long time , I decided to go ahead and hope that my errors were not too many and not too serious . |
| 2 | Since then , the mill ( which is not open to the public ) has been visited by a large number of interested bodies , all of whom must have been greatly impressed with this tale of hard work , expense and perseverence . |
| 3 | It 's been adopted by a large number of Authorities , of which is gon na be one of them I hope . |
| 4 | Parry 's thrust for the title had been predicted by a growing number of people , as , too , had been the challenge of Couples , who has been in wonderful form . |
| 5 | Until relatively recently little was known , but the position has been improved by a large number of studies in the past 25 years . |