Example sentences of "[adv] as a number " in BNC.
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1 | Above all his move means leaving behind the double Olympic gold medallist Steve Redgrave and his pairs partner Simon Berrisford , as well as a number of other promising young British oarsmen . |
2 | When his physical charms began to fade ( although his innately aristocratic manners remained unimpaired ) Henreid turned to such forgettable swashbuckling epics as The Spanish Main ( 1945 ) , Thief of Damascus ( 1952 ) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1962 ) , as well as a number of television films . |
3 | Early editions of the Ordnance Survey still show mills on a number of the old monastic sites , as well as a number in and around Upton St Leonards itself . |
4 | Trinity Mill has been out of commercial use since the 1930s but is fortunate enough still to retain its fine internal , breastshot wheel , as well as a number of other remains , including a bolter , chaff-chutter and sack scales . |
5 | Jousiffe 's work has been published in British magazines , which include Geographical , Renaissance , Traveller and South , as well as a number of Arabic publications . |
6 | Hahnemann therefore had to move frequently as restrictions on his practice were imposed in one town after another , but despite this he lectured for a time on homoeopathy in the University of Leipzig and he had a large band of influential patrons and supporters as well as a number of able and gifted pupils . |
7 | They were originally approached by a client and , on the client 's behalf , they then approached the other banks that participated in the exercise ( as well as a number that refused to ) . |
8 | ‘ We 've got five general business groups as well as a number of consultancy areas , ’ he says . |
9 | A meeting next week will decide how best to distribute the money , which benefits the Fire Brigade National Benevolent Fund , as well as a number of local charities . |
10 | It also housed countless bars and gin shops , as well as a number of churches , chapels , and temperance halls , the latter set up , as it were , in opposition to as many brothels . |
11 | Many have strong academic qualifications , such as an MBA , and a significant number have experience in general consulting as well as a number of line management roles . |
12 | All the other respondents referred to specific firms , with the mining conglomerate expressing satisfaction with service from multinational firm Korn/Ferry as well as a number of smaller , British-based firms who nevertheless have overseas offices : Canny Bowen , Tyzack and GKR . |
13 | There were flocks of moulting eiders and quite a lot of goosanders in the bays , as well as a number of turnstones in their smart ‘ tortoiseshell ’ breeding plumage along the shores . |
14 | Now , the suite of period rooms will adjoin galleries with mid- to late-eighteenth-century paintings , as well as a number of tapestries and decorative arts which are currently not on display . |
15 | The facsimile portfolio , distributed by Faber Music , carries a retail price of £65 ( $125 ) , and is available directly through Faber 's in London ( as well as a number of specialist music shops ) . |
16 | There were women with shopping baskets and men in working clothes , the Evening Standard reported a few hours later , as well as a number of boys and girls . |
17 | Problems like premenstrual tension and hyperactivity in children are on the increase , as well as a number of condition that are caused by allergies of one kind or another : hay fever , eczema , asthma , migraine , and even some bowel problems . |
18 | Walpole later described him as ‘ an able geometrician and an exquisite architect , and of the purest taste both in the Grecian and Gothic styles … my oracle in taste , the standard to whom I submitted my trifles , the genius that presided over poor Strawberry ’ ; and from c .1753 onwards he designed much of the exterior , as well as a number of the interiors . |
19 | What has been called his ‘ exact and scientific attitude to bird-life ’ then gave rise to a series of important books on birds — Bird Display ( 1942 ) and its sequel Bird Display and Behaviour ( 1947 ) , The Wren ( 1955 ) , The Folklore of Birds ( 1958 ) , A Study of Bird Song ( 1963 ) , and The Life and Lore of Birds ( 1975 ) — as well as a number of shorter or more popular works . |
20 | He opened up the Museum to scholars and architectural historians by writing many articles on Soane and his collections for the architectural press in the 1920s and also embarked on a series of publications about Soane : The Works of Sir John Soane ( 1924 ) , an edition of Soane 's Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture ( 1929 ) and The Portrait of Sir John Soane ( 1927 ) , as well as a number of pamphlets . |
21 | He had four surviving sons and one surviving daughter , as well as a number of children who died in infancy . |
22 | The key to the analysis is that new entrants into both fractions of the dominant class as well as a number of petits bourgeois would be apposite reception classes for postmodernist culture . |
23 | My first example , which is very well-known , exemplifies this point as well as a number of the other themes which I have been discussing . |
24 | The consortium is led by Olivetti ( Italy ) and includes Philips ( Germany ) , Bull ( France ) , Siemens ( Germany ) , as well as a number of European university laboratories . |
25 | Spatial skills are involved in a number of school subjects , such as mathematics , geography and design as well as a number of professions , such as engineering , architecture and computing . |
26 | A formal dinner is planned on the Saturday evening as well as a number of sight-seeing trips with a trip to a number of famous hostelries certain to be included . |
27 | A general election in two rounds was held on June 5 and 12 , after which Rocard formed a new and mainly Socialist Party government on June 28 , but including also members of the Union for French Democracy ( Union pour la démocratie française — UDF ) grouping and the Left Radical Movement ( Mouvement des radicaux de gauche — MRG ) as well as a number of " technocratic " non-party members [ see pp. 36227-29 ] . |
28 | Offers of assistance came also from Australia Canada , Norway and Switzerland as well as a number of Asian countries including Japan , India and Pakistan |
29 | Sawyer also offered the NPFL several key Cabinet positions as well as a number of seats in the Interim Legislative Assembly . |
30 | This year will see the launch of two major publications for WASL as well as a number of other new publishing initiatives . |