Example sentences of "[adj] but [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We would be paying the penalty of a sizeable but limited number of professional people , selected for their talent and experience , coming from one of the most successful societies which has been created in the 20th century . ’ |
| 2 | Religion : officially atheism ; large but undetermined number of adherents of Islam . |
| 3 | Religion : under communist regime officially atheism ; large but undetermined number of adherents to Islam . |
| 4 | Baldwin had the support of the Chief Whip ( Leslie Wilson ) ; the Chairman of the Party ( Younger ) ; the Chief Agent ; Salisbury and Derby , the Party 's two principal territorial magnates , although the latter as always was a little hesitant ; the majority of Conservative junior ministers ; a substantial but uncounted number of backbenchers ; and the editor of The Times . |
| 5 | A small but increasing number of commentators would like to stop or turn back the clock and , in the absence of hard data , the debate has been perhaps more about political models of social care than about what works in practice . |
| 6 | A small but growing number of sane , apparently successful men and women are voluntarily abandoning the struggle for material gain and accepting the stem discipline of relearning the near-forgotten skills of smallholding . |
| 7 | There is a small but growing number of recycling schemes nationwide . |
| 8 | They could now proceed in the knowledge that a small but growing number of nuclear weapons was becoming available to the British armed forces . |
| 9 | Most 11-year-olds are not being encouraged to develop advanced reading skills ; a small but significant number are illiterate . |
| 10 | And in response to public concern about a small but significant number of miscarriages of justice , we have appointed a Royal Commission to review aspects of the criminal justice system , including the conduct of investigations , the handling of forensic evidence , and the powers of the Court of Appeal . |
| 11 | In the dark , the free cGMP level in ROS , estimated to be about 4–10 μM , maintains a small but significant number of channels in their open state , allowing for the influx of Na + and Ca 2+ . |
| 12 | To the old long-stay patients re-established in community settings and the younger chronic patients who may never have become institutionalized should be added the relatively small but significant number of mentally abnormal offenders whose discharge from special hospitals gave rise to the 1975 Report of the committee on mentally abnormal offenders ( Cmnd. 6244 ) , together with the growing number of elderly people with mental health problems , including dementia ( Health Advisory Service , 1982 ) . |
| 13 | But a key part in the telling should be the small but significant number of actual past tempo measurements which have come down to us . |
| 14 | In both cases , the ideas of a very influential but small number of people in the United States ( individuals as well as institutions ) backed by large foreign aid funds ( and a wealth of expertise , particularly in soil conservation ) , were responsible for the presence of both family planning and conservation programmes in many lesser developed countries . |