Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But since Sir Charles died , I have heard about a number of things that seem to be supernatural . |
| 2 | Anthropologists and others have produced evidence of the range of languages and institutions within which ‘ scientific progress ’ has been made , as in the mix of mathematics and astrology in ancient Greece ( Goody , 1977 , p. 17 ) , and of geometry and the building of sacred altars in ancient India ( Parry , 1982 , p. 23 ) , while in Europe developments can be traced through a number of traditions , of which the essayist tradition is only one . |
| 3 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 4 | ITED has been developed through a number of task groups , utilising the skill and experience of people from all sectors of the Group , and was piloted across a sample of UK businesses in 1991 . |
| 5 | In a broad programme of work , a variety of methods or types of activity can be reasonably expected ; planning will begin to lay out the sequence in increasing detail , even when allowing for a number of variant paths or for the switching of the course according to observed student response : improvisation or student decision-making works best when possibilities have been foreseen and prepared for . |
| 6 | Infant mortality rate is usually calculated as the number of infant deaths in a calendar year per 1,000 live births in the same year . |
| 7 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 8 | Incidences were calculated as the number of annual discharges in a population of 100000 in each age and sex groups . |
| 9 | Death rates were also calculated as the number of deaths per recorded discharge ( case mortality or fatal spell ratio ) . |
| 10 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 11 | During spring 1986 his government arranged for a number of ‘ spontaneous ’ demonstrations of support in the West Bank , and a series of newspaper articles appeared confirming popular support for his efforts and denouncing the PLO 's betrayal of an historic opportunity for peace . |
| 12 | A year or so ago Business in the Community arranged for a number of the chief executives of some of the UK 's largest national and international corporations to spend a day in a school . |
| 13 | For although British Rate and Data ( BRAD for short ) gives information on rates , these are always open to negotiation , and discounts can be arranged for a number of reasons . |
| 14 | The lizards were examined for a number of morphological characteristics such as body proportions and colour , weighed , and released into four adjoining enclosures , one for each group . |
| 15 | On the basis of the figures given for the number of infants requiring blood transfusion there is no significant difference between the two groups for either ventilated infants or all infants ( χ 2 test , two by two analysis ) . |
| 16 | A parachute mine had fallen on the shelter beneath the school , and various figures were given for the number killed there . |
| 17 | This networking of previously lone individuals and groups will be highlighted through a number of networking facilities including the innovative Networking Game . |
| 18 | Figure 5.2 shows for the Earth , Venus and Mars the abundances of the inert gas isotopes as the number of atoms in the atmosphere per kilogramme of the whole planet . |
| 19 | Her character goes through a number of changes which is very interesting . |
| 20 | An inquiry directed at a not necessarily random sample of employers in 1984 asked about the number of workers they had whose stay with the organisation was recognised by both sides as being temporary . |
| 21 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 22 | Margaret inspected it and asked for a number of prints to be made . |
| 23 | Talbot lifted a phone , asked for a number , listened briefly and hung up . |
| 24 | As soon as they 'd gone , I got on the phone to Directory Enquiries and asked for the number of the Maidstone hospital . |
| 25 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 26 | It then passed through a number of hands , eventually taken over by Bensons International Systems , shortly after the Second World War . |
| 27 | As has been mentioned previously , dogs which have been mistreated and passed through a number of other homes can represent a particular problem . |
| 28 | It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons . |
| 29 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 30 | If a report has to go through a number of drafts , it is an excellent way of enabling changes to be made quickly and without extensive retyping . |