Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cattle thefts are five times more significant than the murder when offences are counted , but sixteen times as important when the number of offenders make up the crime rate . |
| 2 | One reason for the ubiquity of chants lies in the fact that a large number of fans move around the country to support their team at away games . |
| 3 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 4 | In one instance , a pupil 's dissertation was " lost " through an operating error but a number of pupils divided up the work , which was in final draft , took it to the computer room and keyed in the text in sections . |
| 5 | The conversion of fractions to decimals is a requirement for effective use of the calculator , and a further calculator question about the wages received for a 37½ hour week produced evidence that a number of pupils worked out the wages for a 37 hour week using the calculator and then made , or tried to make , a pencil and paper calculation for the remaining half hour 's money . |