Example sentences of "[adj] when a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Werner Reichert , of Egremont Road , Whitehaven , joined the Company in 1950 when a number of skilled German weavers were recruited and is now only one of two left . |
| 2 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 3 | It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers . |
| 4 | It all started in 1882 when a number of local worthies , looking for ways of raising money to support Huddersfield Infirmary , decided to hold a ‘ Musical Gathering ’ on the Sunday of Feast Week . |
| 5 | The first bombs to fall on any British deaf school happened the day the war broke out at Margate on 3rd September 1939 when a number of incendiary bombs landed in the school grounds . |