Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 2 | But then this leads to the idea that perhaps a number of women do not enjoy being part of a couple and that a single woman in their midst acts like a demented lighthouse : enticing hapless travellers , by its safe and steady beam , on to the rocks below . |
| 3 | With the obligatory ‘ W ’ across its malformed chest , the tousle-headed little aberration appears in the latest set of increasingly hep ‘ Be more than just a number ’ ads , |
| 4 | This is a model of the diffusion process that takes account of the observation that often a number of different interrelated technologies are being diffused simultaneously . |
| 5 | I 'm not a vegetarian although quite a number of my friends are . |
| 6 | More boys than girls are in the lowest mathematics sets although quite a number obtained fairly high test scores on the GT4 test . |
| 7 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 8 | One would feel happier about the anthropic principle , at least in its weak version , if one could show that quite a number of different initial configurations for the universe would have evolved to produce a universe like the one we observe . |
| 9 | The Council suggested the need for independent ‘ unified ’ research to ascertain the size and scope of the heroin problem , as they feared that otherwise a number of ‘ in-house ’ research papers would be produced which would lack coordination and the necessary overview . |
| 10 | ‘ After the war the Russians encouraged the Poles in Britain to return home and so a number of army people — including Nowak — went back . |
| 11 | So and so a number on a yellow or a blue or a red , yeah I 've seen it . |
| 12 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 13 | Last June both Zilog Corp and National Semiconductor Corp announced chip sets that combined voice , modem and facsimile capabilities and already a number of board-level products are coming to market that incorporate them . |
| 14 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 15 | Although many deaths arise from natural causes , and many others from illnesses and diseases , each year sees a large number of deaths caused by ‘ accidents ’ , and also a number caused by acts or omissions which amount to some form of homicide in English law . |
| 16 | Almost 250 course proposals from 58 centres were successfully validated : these were traditional courses being transferred to the new system and also a number of innovative courses in areas ranging from Countryside Recreation and Countryside Management to Modern Musicianship . |
| 17 | The battalion , which had operated in Namibia and Angola , was composed largely of Angolan rebels who had fought in the Angolan civil war , and also a number of white mercenaries ; its members had since been given South African citizenship . |
| 18 | We are concerned only with the additional light which this part of Anselm 's thought and action throws on the man himself , and here a number of features deserve attention . |
| 19 | There were close-up photographs of the Hindu erotic frieze , graphic accounts of the doings of the founder , and even a number of verses from a Rochester poem with the four-letter words blanked out . |
| 20 | Magistrates , lawyers , various clerks , a court reporter , a telephone repair man , and even a number of ordinary human beings untouched by the grace of public office had been accosted , to no avail . |
| 21 | As ‘ Working Title ’ continue to expand and develop , it seems a good moment to look back at some of their prolific and varied output , and we will be screening a number of titles from ‘ MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE ’ through the powerful drama ‘ A WORLD APART ’ , scripted by Gillian Slovo , Ruth First 's daughter , and underrated films like ‘ PAPERHOUSE ’ to ‘ ROBIN HOOD ’ , scripted by John Mcgrath , and then a number of their new releases : ‘ EDWARD II ’ ( directed by Derek Jarman ) , ‘ DAKOTA ROAD ’ and ‘ DROP DEAD FRED ’ , which has been a huge box office hit in the States . |
| 22 | There were tough qualifying conditions in the heats : the first in each heat automatically and then a number of the fastest losers . |
| 23 | Er , it 's something like that er , is the word that two parts , two arguments to the string , there 's the number B four comma , and then a number for the number of decimal places you want in your label , so zero , so I get a label with three characters here one O two . |
| 24 | Another market on the main shopping street , the Ludwigstrasse , was equally busy and there a number of the stalls were manned by Turks selling cheap jeans or asparagus or pots and kettles . |
| 25 | Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools . |
| 26 | There were a few of the I-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags sort of lines , which all went on a little long for Henry 's taste , and quite a number of death-as-a-viable-alternative-to-life stuff , much of it from the fathers of the early church . |
| 27 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 28 | There are over 50 coral reef fish species and quite a number of invertebrates which live by cleaning parasites and small pieces of dead tissue from other fish living on or visiting the reef . |
| 29 | Many various-sized painted plaster images are on sale and quite a number with large pieces broken off are being brought back in torn imitation plastic leather bags , only to have it explained that the purchasers probably have not been confessing enough and absolution is only granted by their completing a 13-page questionnaire through which they get a special adhesive that breaks all mends . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're still following up contacts made at that show , and quite a number have already turned into customers . ’ |