Example sentences of "a number [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities . |
2 | Further evidence of slackening efforts was the reduction in a number of countries ' energy efficiency budgets . |
3 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
4 | Besides them epigraphy records a number of oculists ' stamps from Bath , Kenchester ( two examples ) and Sandy , each bearing the name of the individual concerned alongside his patent remedies for treating opthalmic disorders . |
5 | She was a governor of University College London , the London School of Medicine , and a number of girls ' schools . |
6 | In Appendix 1 a number of organisations ' relocation policies are reproduced and some cover eligibility and levels of relocation assistance given to recruits . |
7 | Unfortunately , a number of LDCs ' governments squandered their funds on consumer goods imports and uneconomic projects which made no recognisable increase in their countries ' productive capacities . |
8 | There is some suggestion that this site was the original French mill , and was a fulling mill , followed by a number of years ' service as a saw mill . |
9 | This figure is multiplied by a number of years ' purchase , which is commonly known as the multiplier . |
10 | Rasmussen and Milner ( 1975 ) summarise data collected in their clinic over a number of years ' use of the Amytal test ( see Wada and Rasmussen , 1960 ; Branch , Milner and Rasmussen , 1964 ) . |
11 | Works attributed to him ( either by himself or by scribes ) include allegories in verse ( such as the Char d'Orgueil , or the Passion , in which Christ is a lover-knight who , wearing the arms of his squire Adam , fights Belial in order to rescue his beloved , Mankind ) , several poems on the Virgin Mary , a number of saints ' lives in verse , some lively sermons in verse , and the Plainte d'Amour , a powerful satire on corruption , which may well have been inspired by the Bull Exivi de paradiso ( 1312 ) . |
12 | Employees may , for example , receive flat-rate payments , allowances based on a percentage of their salary , or a payment based on a number of weeks ' salary . |