Example sentences of "number of [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From mid-September the security situation worsened , with a number of students burning themselves to death in protest . |
| 2 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 3 | Now , centuries later , it had decided to invite a number of experts to advise it on cosmology . |
| 4 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 5 | Instead of the usual stonings and demonstrations , a number of Arabs took it upon themselves to launch unprovoked knife attacks on Israeli civilians . |
| 6 | In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X . |
| 7 | A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people . |
| 8 | A number of plaques include one in memory of Coastal Command aircrew lost on operations from Pembrokeshire bases . |
| 9 | Only a small number of men accompanied him into the forest . |
| 10 | Is my hon. Friend aware that there was a serious fall-off in the number of people presenting themselves for eye tests for a considerable period after the charges were introduced and that the current figures show that we have not yet made up that gap ? |
| 11 | This solid , reliable book has a number of features to recommend it as a starting point in the discovery of Picasso , not least the interesting thematic chronological charts which cover topics such as ‘ Stages in the discovery and appropriation of primitivism ’ e.g. ‘ Autumn 1906 , Derain and Matisse return to Paris , each having acquired his first African mask ’ , and ‘ Stages of the revolution in papier colles ’ . |
| 12 | There are not sufficient numbers of lockers to allow one per person . |