Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 . |
| 2 | There is obviously a vast number of such possible trajectories . |
| 3 | The mail-shot received a high response rate of over 43% — 13 replies from 30 enquiries — so a higher number of negative responses was expected , bearing in mind that people are generally swifter to complain than to praise . |
| 4 | You , you get used to the idea that all squares must be positive , so a negative number ca n't have a square root . |
| 5 | The more dedicated among them combed both the cultivated and wild places of the world in search of novelties and in doing so a good number of them lost their lives , in some cases in tragic circumstances . |
| 6 | As a relatively small number of library authorities carry out a high amount of training , so a small number of libraries spend a high proportion of the money budgeted : 19 libraries accounted for 55% of this money , although employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 7 | It would n't have be so a great number . |
| 8 | A larger number of people are getting married , so a larger number of people will get divorced if the divorce-rate stays the same . |
| 9 | The numbers within the Council Tax Control Team have been based on a pro rata of case load plus a 20% increase for personal elements less a nominal number to reflect the transfer of routine functions to the operational teams . |
| 10 | In contrast to figure 12.1 , the map resulting from this construal revealed not only a higher number of judgments but also a more effective structuring of their relationships . |
| 11 | However , the limitation of the sound guide is equally evident : only a small number of works can be given such exceptional treatment . |
| 12 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 13 | The existence of these different anatomical plans , without intermediates , again raises the question of whether there are only a small number of possible body plans , represented by the existing phyla , or whether we are looking at the end results of a series of historical accidents . |
| 14 | However , only a small number of overseas visitors and speakers attend each year , and the festival hardly merits its ‘ International ’ billing . |
| 15 | At first , only a small number of companies were involved in the DTI Link programme , but participation has now improved . |
| 16 | Another route has led to the formation of bands of close relatives in which only a small number of adults breed and these are assisted by helpers that live communally with them in a group territory . |
| 17 | Cattle-ranching requires only a small number of cowboys and large tracts of land , which could alternatively be intensively cultivated , with the result that there is underemployment of labour and a low physical and economic return per unit of surface area . |
| 18 | ‘ The USSR has only a small number of private cars , ’ says Bashmekov . |
| 19 | AROUND 7000 PLANT-DERIVED MEDICINAL COMPOUNDS USED IN WESTERN MEDICINE COME FROM ONLY A SMALL NUMBER OF PLANT SPECIES … |
| 20 | Among the very many antimetabolites which have been investigated , only a small number have shown the combination of properties necessary to be therapeutically useful . |
| 21 | Only a small number of men accompanied him into the forest . |
| 22 | He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) . |
| 23 | In the case of the incubator thesis , there is evidence ( certainly from London — Nicholson , Brinkley and Evans , 1981 ) that few sections of industry seek out inner-urban locations , and that only a small number of companies migrate outwards in the classical fashion . |
| 24 | Most of the university and polytechnic libraries replied to the survey but only a small number of colleges did so . |
| 25 | Experiments using lasers give very accurate results ; they are also extremely sensitive , so only a small number of atoms are required . |
| 26 | Only a small number of PAT dogs work on units for the mentally ill , and such work can be most rewarding for dog and patient alike . |
| 27 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 28 | Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history . |
| 29 | Only a small number of the company can have Jaguar cars , for instance . |
| 30 | ‘ Only a small number ’ , says a spokesman . |