Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But since Sir Charles died , I have heard about a number of things that seem to be supernatural . |
| 2 | Anthropologists and others have produced evidence of the range of languages and institutions within which ‘ scientific progress ’ has been made , as in the mix of mathematics and astrology in ancient Greece ( Goody , 1977 , p. 17 ) , and of geometry and the building of sacred altars in ancient India ( Parry , 1982 , p. 23 ) , while in Europe developments can be traced through a number of traditions , of which the essayist tradition is only one . |
| 3 | ITED has been developed through a number of task groups , utilising the skill and experience of people from all sectors of the Group , and was piloted across a sample of UK businesses in 1991 . |
| 4 | During spring 1986 his government arranged for a number of ‘ spontaneous ’ demonstrations of support in the West Bank , and a series of newspaper articles appeared confirming popular support for his efforts and denouncing the PLO 's betrayal of an historic opportunity for peace . |
| 5 | A year or so ago Business in the Community arranged for a number of the chief executives of some of the UK 's largest national and international corporations to spend a day in a school . |
| 6 | For although British Rate and Data ( BRAD for short ) gives information on rates , these are always open to negotiation , and discounts can be arranged for a number of reasons . |
| 7 | The lizards were examined for a number of morphological characteristics such as body proportions and colour , weighed , and released into four adjoining enclosures , one for each group . |
| 8 | This networking of previously lone individuals and groups will be highlighted through a number of networking facilities including the innovative Networking Game . |
| 9 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 10 | It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons . |
| 11 | The tuning delay is given as a number of seconds where a value of 0 provides no delay and any value greater than 60 seconds is defaulted to 60 . |
| 12 | ‘ It is important for the saving of the pool to be at the forefront of everyone 's minds it should be treated as a number one priority . ’ |
| 13 | They have also realised after a number of annual painting expeditions together that there is considerable mileage to be had from monastic ruins as well as both occupied and derelict castles . |
| 14 | Work in the field is scattered between a number of approaches and takes as its subject differing historical periods and geographical areas . |
| 15 | A few miles from Huntspill , in the hamlet of Shurton , lived Henry Poole , a fellow student of Coleridge 's at Jesus College , and one member of a large and talented family whose various branches were scattered through a number of local villages . |
| 16 | Nineteenth century ephemera , including table games , playing cards , a hieroglyphic card ( one where small pictures are substituted for a number of letters or syllables ) and ( centre ) a ‘ zoetrope ’ or ‘ wheel of life ’ , an early motion-picture toy . |
| 17 | This strategy has been pursued through a number of means there were over 40 Acts of Parliament which changed the finance system culminating in the introduction of the Community Charge . |
| 18 | In Brighton , where the system has been installed for a number of years , one in four homes is on the cablephone network . |
| 19 | A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident . |
| 20 | A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident . |
| 21 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 22 | There was also speculation concerning the health of both Taufa'ahau Tupou and his aged Prime Minister , the former having cancelled a state visit to Japan in order to travel to Australia for medical treatment , the latter having been incapacitated for a number of years after suffering a stroke . |
| 23 | Moreover , so-called inequities have been addressed for a number of years . |
| 24 | I have been hassled and discriminated against a number of times just because of the way I look . |
| 25 | After six months of work under the direction of Guy Cogeval , conservateur du patrimoine , the museum has reopened with a number of improvements and alterations to the building . |
| 26 | Designs by Dürer , Gianlorenzo Bernini and Lord Leighton are included with a number of items loaned from other institutions . |
| 27 | The research councils have responded with a number of initiatives and programmes which emphasises selectivity and applications-relevance in the funding of research . |
| 28 | I had called a meeting in my office , by now decorated with a number of pictures from the Government 's own art collection including a marvellous study of the railway cutting at Acton by Lucien Pissarro . |
| 29 | This mass of material can be grouped into a number of key areas . |
| 30 | Services are grouped into a number of vertical market segments serving , for instance , insurance , travel and education , and the horizontal market of interest here — Business Information Services , ( BIS ) , for which Mr Rosenbaum is Product Marketing Manager . |