Example sentences of "number of [adj] [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there are a great number of possible tissue types it takes an extremely large register of prospective donors to find a matched unrelated donor for every patient and sometimes the search is unsuccessful . |
| 2 | ‘ North Yorkshire county council , unlike a number of other education authorities it would seem , has included within its contingency budget for 1992–93 sufficient funds to meet the teachers ’ pay award , ’ said Mr Fred Evans , County Education Officer . |
| 3 | erm The other parts of the job are that we do erm all of the fundamental and much of the applied research which the nation needs , we provide an increasing range of advanced courses in technology for people in industry , and continuing education generally , the number of mature students at all levels is rising , and there are a number of other service functions we do for the community as well as just teaching undergraduates . |
| 4 | Many of the problems are likely to arise when quarrying companies activate the large number of old mining permissions they own without basic environmental safeguards attached . |
| 5 | and if you take a film of of erm Hitler and er people of that ilk in the second world war and you analyse almost frame by frame you 'll see that and count the number of non-symmetrical hand gestures you will find that they 're quite high as a percentage . |