Example sentences of "[verb] a great number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes in the course occur because of the need to attract a great number of students ; recently there has been a move to introduce a greater element of electronics in the course because |
| 2 | The Young Engineers Clubs aim to encourage a greater number of Scotland 's more able youngsters to continue with subjects which give them the option of tertiary education in science or engineering . |
| 3 | They built a great number of cottages for their workpeople ; a Unitarian chapel for their spiritual welfare , a school for their children , and a mansion for themselves . |
| 4 | When one considers that the rents for the poorest housing were often as high , per square foot , as those of the wealthy middle class , his argument may seem less unconvincing ; but of course , the area per person regarded as model involved a greater number of square feet . |
| 5 | It now covered a greater geographical area and involved a greater number of powerful States than ever before . |
| 6 | The homoclinic orbits to the origin that lie close to X spiral a great number of times around C+ or C " before returning to the origin ; as you work away from X along the spiral the number of turns around C+ or C " decreases . |
| 7 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 8 | I suppose it is a spectator sport of a sort but from the operator 's viewpoint the presence of uninitiated onlookers has a great number of debit points . |
| 9 | It seems a more unlikely plant than most to be a herb , but the whole of it , leaves , stems etc. , consist of about 30 per cent mucilage , and this has a great number of medicinal applications , known for many centuries . |
| 10 | Scot land has a great number of constituencies allocated to it than its population strictly allows , and the same exception applies to Wales . |
| 11 | They preserve a great number of preludes and dances ( many by ‘ N.C. ’ , supposedly Nicolaus Cracoviensis , ‘ Mikolaj z Krakowa ’ ) , organ service-music , transcriptions of Josquin and his contemporaries , chansons by Janequin ( ‘ La Guerre' of course ) , Sermisy , Sandrin , a little Senfl ( including ‘ Ave rosa ’ ) , but only three or four German songs by minor composers — though the monk of Cracow does include a transcription of Mahu 's ‘ Ein' feste Burg ’ which had appeared in Rhaw 's Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge only four years before . |
| 12 | In crude terms , value normally depends on rarity , and no book can show a greater number of editions than the Bible . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've met a great number of very interesting people , ’ he murmurs . |
| 14 | There is a growing trend in the textile trade for designers to make use of computer-aided design , in order to explore a greater number of design ideas and to shorten lead times on production . |
| 15 | The National Curriculum will , however , give a greater number of girls exposure to the physical sciences , in which as pupils and employees in industry they are still under-represented . |
| 16 | The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . |
| 17 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 18 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 19 | He was opposed by Corazon Aquino ( the widow of the country 's most prominent opponent of the Marcos regime until his murder in 1983 — see pp. 32517-18 ) , and although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes . |
| 20 | Although Marcos claimed victory it was generally believed that Aquino had secured a greater number of votes . |
| 21 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |
| 22 | Again , something which affects a great number of people . |
| 23 | Obviously , this simple system for tone transcription could be extended , if we wished , to cover a greater number of possibilities . |
| 24 | The earliest surviving parish registers consistently record a greater number of baptisms than burials . |
| 25 | Jobbers often faced one-way markets in which they would either have to buy a greater number of shares than they had sold ( go ‘ long ’ ) or they had bought ( go ‘ short ’ ) . |
| 26 | One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics . |
| 27 | He also pointed out that the Nile , if it flooded , might well drown a greater number of people than all the refugees . |
| 28 | ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage . |
| 29 | The point is not that some have been forgiven a greater number of sins than others or that some are ‘ worse sinners ’ than others but that some see their need of forgiveness and others do not . |
| 30 | Using a greater number of segments will create more surfaces to glue and a greater difficulty in assembling the segments to form the ring . |