Example sentences of "[adv] a large number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was he concerned with justice , but treated the innocent and guilty alike , until he had collected together a large number of wealthy suspects , who could have been associated with Magnentius , to satisfy the suspicious-minded Emperor . |
| 2 | Churchill said he was planning to bring together a large number of organisations to form a delegation to press the DSS to review the restriction . |
| 3 | Even today surgeons turn over a large number of patients for hymen replacements or repairs carried out in the strictest confidence and secrecy . |
| 4 | Hypnosis is identical with group formation in that it isolates the relation between the leader and follower , but between two people , not a large number , as in a crowd with a leader . |
| 5 | Not a large number . |
| 6 | Now twenty two is not a large number , certainly not large enough for any statistical reliability to be placed on the result , but the fact remains that if you had bet on every single horse in that season at two to one on , and had bet the same amount , then you 'd have finished ahead . |
| 7 | There are already a large number of troops in the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 8 | A printed DXF file is quickly recognisable by consisting mainly of a narrow strip of short lines down the left hand margin of each page , usually a large number of pages , and a great deal of white paper . |
| 9 | There is usually a large number of Arab postgraduates in the department ( for the University Library has an important collection of Islamic MSS ) , which helps to keep undergraduates exposed to Arabic in everyday use . |
| 10 | North-eastern England and the Midlands contain most of the exposed coalfields in England , and there is always a large number of enquiries on matters relating to coal . |
| 11 | They came down the steps of the hotel with their Kodaks — at the Continental there was always a large number of Americans — and were immediately fallen upon by dragomans , donkey-boys and street-traders of all kinds , all offering instant picturesqueness without the trouble of having to go too far in the heat to find it . |
| 12 | Although , at first sight , these look fairly primitive ‘ abilities ’ , the fact that a microcomputer can obey quickly a large number of instructions consisting of a combination of these features enables most of the ‘ talents ’ described on page 22 to be made available . |
| 13 | Although the entry in the general dictionary understandably includes a variety of collocations that are representative of other domains ( e.g. ’ vote ’ , ’ politic ’ , ’ conservative ’ , ’ society ’ , and ’ public ’ , all of which suggest an origin in parliamentary proceedings ) , there are still a large number of words common to both entries . |
| 14 | Our reason for doing that is stated in the amendment : there are still a large number of unanswered questions . |
| 15 | It also has an ‘ enable tracer ’ which cuts down the time needed to run off a large number of copies from one disc . |
| 16 | The word Resident normally implied , at least officially , a preponderance of diplomatic over administrative duties , but it was clear from the beginning that a Lugardian Resident was expected to take on a large number of purely administrative tasks . |
| 17 | Many distributions show a peak in a particular age group mainly associated with taking on a large number of young people when the organisation was started or reorganised , this is not desirable because it leads to excessive competition for promotion at particular stages . |
| 18 | Although the Museum has put on a large number of successful temporary exhibitions , the display of its permanent collection has been subject to difficulties and delays . |
| 19 | The early sea urchins tend to have rather a large number of plates in a much less regular mosaic than their later relatives . |
| 20 | It gives them greater job mobility but also a large number of people aged in their 20s who would not have had a pension now have them . |
| 21 | There are also a large number of tactical decisions to be made as you sail upwind . |
| 22 | In 1963 , the BBC was allocated a second TV channel ( BBC 2 ) and by the end of the decade there were also a large number of local , commercial , and non-commercial , radio stations . |
| 23 | There are also a large number of agencies and bodies which are not actually part of central government departments but which are funded by central government and staffed by civil servants and which perform public functions : examples include the Equal Opportunities Commission , the Police Complaints Authority , the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and prison authorities . |
| 24 | There are also a large number of adherents er to my knowledge in Edinburgh , people who have moved from the highlands for work . |
| 25 | There are also a large number of bodies ' accounts which C. and A.G. audits by agreement with the body and the government department concerned . |
| 26 | There are a very large number of cows munching in the green pastures of my constituency , but there are also a large number of people who are employed by the Milk Marketing Board . |
| 27 | Notably a large number of the earliest silver sceattas , the silver coins which replaced the gold issues more common earlier in the seventh century , are concentrated in east Kent around the Wantsum Channel ( Rigold and Metcalf 1977 ) . |
| 28 | How many observations make up a large number ? |
| 29 | For our present purposes , however , the important feature of the model is that it develops the implications of the widely accepted notion that even the simplest stimulus will consist of a set ( probably a large number ) of elements and that only some of these will be sampled ( will activate their central representations ) on a given exposure ( cf. |
| 30 | As there is probably a large number of variables that might be socially interesting , it is necessary to select a representative sub-sample of different types of variable in a well-motivated way , and to specify the range of potential linguistic variation that lexical items in these sets may undergo . |