Example sentences of "[verb] for a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 8 | Margaret inspected it and asked for a number of prints to be made . |
| 9 | Talbot lifted a phone , asked for a number , listened briefly and hung up . |
| 10 | It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons . |
| 11 | If he or she does n't act for a number of successful bands , he or she is unlikely to have a thorough understanding of accounting in the music business . |
| 12 | Nineteenth century ephemera , including table games , playing cards , a hieroglyphic card ( one where small pictures are substituted for a number of letters or syllables ) and ( centre ) a ‘ zoetrope ’ or ‘ wheel of life ’ , an early motion-picture toy . |
| 13 | Productivity also rose for a number of reasons of which taxation was probably the most important , although factors like technological improvements , peaceful conditions , access to wider markets and slavery must all have played a part . |
| 14 | No more can x be " something which stands for a number " since one could equally well imagine it standing for a matrix or even the differential operator |
| 15 | If y stands for a number , then y + y + y + y stands for a number 4 times larger than y . |
| 16 | If y stands for a number , then y + y + y + y stands for a number 4 times larger than y . |
| 17 | ( ( a ) is done for you. ) unc Another shorthand technique is the following : example If K stands for a number , |
| 18 | In Brighton , where the system has been installed for a number of years , one in four homes is on the cablephone network . |
| 19 | This suggests that , rather then being promptly eliminated by arbitrage , the mispricings ( before transactions costs ) tended to persist for a number of days . |
| 20 | Brian Harley had seemed short of inspiration too , and his putting had failed to compensate for a number of lapses in his long game . |
| 21 | A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident . |
| 22 | A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident . |
| 23 | This could lead to neighbouring local authorities co-operating to provide for a number of full-time councillors ( Widdicombe 1986 : 136 ) . |
| 24 | This occurred for a number of reasons : laparoscopy became a widely used diagnostic tool , with diagnosis no longer being restricted to patients with disease severe enough to warrant laparotomy , and gynaecologists became aware of the myriad visual appearances of endometriosis which represent evolution of the disease through visually distinct stages to the relatively inactive classic blue-black lesions . |
| 25 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 26 | There was also speculation concerning the health of both Taufa'ahau Tupou and his aged Prime Minister , the former having cancelled a state visit to Japan in order to travel to Australia for medical treatment , the latter having been incapacitated for a number of years after suffering a stroke . |
| 27 | Now is it not they 'll ask you , reasonable to recycle some of those savings and surely regain the into the provision of those ten fire officers that the service so badly needs for a number of years now the Fire Inspector 's report has identified the confidence levels as we in our service . |
| 28 | You have been using " n " to stand for a number or set of numbers . |
| 29 | Moreover , so-called inequities have been addressed for a number of years . |
| 30 | Indeed , it had been rising much faster than the cost of living for a number of years . |