Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have put forward a number of proposals to this effect in the political union intergovernmental conference . |
| 2 | HWIM 's architecture permitted its designers to experiment with a number of approaches to this question . |
| 3 | THE number of visitors to this year 's Birmingham Motor Show topped 650,000 , a 45pc increase on the last show in 1990 , it was announced yesterday . |
| 4 | There are a number of qualifications to this prediction , apart from the possibility of economies of scale discussed above . |
| 5 | They also found a tendency for Labour-controlled councils to spend more on education than Conservative councils but with a number of exceptions to this tendency . |
| 6 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 7 | The author notes the importance of the ‘ Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ exhibition at the Musée Picasso , Paris and ‘ Picasso and Braque : pioneering Cubism ’ at MOMA which took place since the first edition and have resulted in a number of amendments to this version . |