Example sentences of "[Wh adv] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were used by professionals and keen amateurs whenever a small number of tailor-made discs were required . |
| 2 | The incremental model demonstrates how a successive number of small steps may enable decision makers to move slowly towards the intended state of affairs with the facility to re-address the situation at each stage in the process . |
| 3 | Davies ( 1979 and 1981 ) , in a study of Wandsworth , describes how a small number of newly elected backbench councillors in the controlling Labour group crucially developed a whole range of new planning and industrial policies . |
| 4 | Although be knew that this happens , he did not think it plausible that all differences between cells could be caused in this way , because he could not see how a sufficient number of specific external stimuli could be brought to bear during development . |
| 5 | It is relatively rare for a firm to have an absolute monopoly of the market , but there are many instances where a small number of large firms dominate a market — this is called an oligopoly . |
| 6 | In cases where a small number of records is accessed very frequently , the saving is marked , and may even be dramatic . |
| 7 | I have developed considerable regard and affection over the years for Jack Profumo , who has worked his passage after having been what is technically described as ‘ disgraced ’ in circumstances where a great number of people would not have been over-censorious . |
| 8 | It also provides a glimpse of Flanders as a place where a substantial number of fighters could be expensively equipped and then encouraged to leave the county for long periods . |
| 9 | Fire , should it occur in a place where a substantial number of people gather , i.e. a bar or a hotel , may have tragic consequences . |
| 10 | Package contracts must be in writing and must also contain certain matters — included in these are the situation where a minimum number of customers must book before the package is on — the minimum number must be specified and the deadline for cancellation ( due to that number not being achieved ) must be stated . |
| 11 | It had been decided that while certain HN units and courses should be developed by colleges , SCOTVEC would undertake to develop HN units and courses particularly in those areas where a significant number of colleges were invited or where units of wider application could be identified . |
| 12 | For example station identification — particularly useful in countries such as Holland where a large number of FM broadcasts from neighbouring countries can be received . |
| 13 | The actual pattern varied from town to town and decade to decade but there is abundant evidence of a modest and continued prosperity in the smaller centres such as Petworth , Midhurst and Steyning where a large number of the houses have survived . |
| 14 | Huy understood why he had been dropped here , from where a large number of roads led off back to the various parts of the city , but guessed that they had underestimated his knowledge of the twisting muddle of streets that formed the harbour quarter . |
| 15 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 16 | Well I think I feel a bit ambivalent on this point because and it 's quite possible I was smiling because I 'm thinking of parts of the report where a huge number of women say that they just deal with this on their own terms , and of course they do . |
| 17 | However a considerable number of advances were made in the framework of small instrumented areas and there is no immediately obvious alternative to the approach when large numbers of empirical values are required . |
| 18 | Even Georgia proved troublesome in 1832 , when a small number of aristocrats tried unsuccessfully to reverse the annexation of 1801 . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the survival of tax records from the middle years of the century ( and more especially after 1450 ) is more patchy than from the period immediately before , so it is not always possible to trace the disappearance of villages at precisely the time when a substantial number of the desertions seems to have occurred . |
| 20 | Their success in this area so changed the way British films were perceived that , in 1932 , a year when a large number of exhibitors substantially over-filled their quota , the American showbiz journal Variety reported on ‘ the complete stranglehold the home-made pictures had established at the local box office . ’ |
| 21 | First official event took place during the early afternoon of April 25 , when a large number of people gathered at the memorial site dedicated to the RAF and Allied aircrew . |
| 22 | This approach becomes difficult to use and understand when a large number of entities are displayed or when knowledge of the surfaces or solid parameters is necessary for the problem solution . |
| 23 | In a real inversion layer the Fermi energy lies in a gap between when a whole number of levels are filled with electrons ( see Box ) . |
| 24 | We do not really know why a greater number of people began to survive into adulthood during this period . |