Example sentences of "[num] of [art] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siemens hopes to shift around 12 of the things a year . |
| 2 | He also saw booming business in multimedia , and forecast that Apple will sell over 1m CD-ROM drives this year and more than 2m next — it sold only 50,000 of the things last year . |
| 3 | NEC hopes to ship 30 of the things over three years , and research institutes are the target market . |
| 4 | NEC hopes to ship 30 of the things over three years , and research institutes are the target market . |
| 5 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 6 | Currently utilising up to 16 AMD 29050 RISC CPUs , E&S says Freedom could accommodate as many as 32 of the things . |
| 7 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 8 | The MP-2 line uses custom 32-bit RISCs rated at 133 MIPS and are configured with as many as 16,000 of the things . |
| 9 | Since then , demand for board level products has increased , but the Sparcbook has taken off more slowly than Tadpole hoped , so that by September 30 it had sold 647 of the things , bringing in £3.5m . |
| 10 | Now when we came across that it was dealt with very quickly and the , er sparklers were removed , but , er you know , the potential danger there particularly with young children running around , might want to play with a sparkler , with thirty or fifty thousand of the things in the same room . |
| 11 | Sparcsystems were on display from a number of vendors : Ace K Computer is the sales arm of MicroHelios Ltd of Osaka , which recently announced a Sparcstation 10-compatible machine under the name HelioStation 1000 — this adds to its current Sparc-based Heliostation 400 series and both machines are imported and sold under an agreement with Axil Technology Inc , of San Jose , California , a relatively new player in the compatible market ; the prices are about 40% of the Nippon Sun retail price and the company looks to sell 1,500 of the things annually . |
| 12 | One of the things you will notice when watching the television is that close-ups are used very effectively , and so it is of vital importance that the actor has absolute control over his/her face and expression . |
| 13 | ‘ That is one of the things that is making our enquiries difficult . ’ |
| 14 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 15 | That 's one of the things I 've done , actually . ’ |
| 16 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 17 | One of the things they seem to have agreed about , among innumerable disagreements , was the irrelevance of Virgil to their concerns . |
| 18 | Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the things that has been most useful has been our non-pupil days . |
| 20 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
| 21 | On the screen a woman nonchalantly opens the lid of a washing machine and out leaps one of the Things . |
| 22 | On the penultimate page of Black Skin , White Masks Fanon declares that one of the things that he , the man of colour , wants is ‘ that it be possible for me to discover and to love man , wherever he may be ’ . |
| 23 | One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions . |
| 24 | One of the things museums are going to have to do in future is take over their buildings . |
| 25 | One of the things I did n't like too much was the terrific hullabaloo the women made about menstruation , the way they would sit sighing in a corner and all the other women would make a fuss over them . |
| 26 | She also had a rich enjoyment of the comedy of human character , which was one of the things she shared with Lewis . |
| 27 | But in the background you can hear the murmur of other people 's activity and this , Smith argues , is one of the things which makes Shared Ark work . |
| 28 | Conservative loyalists said Mr Tebbit had made a blunder , but he showed no sign of backing off from ‘ one of the things that brought me into politics — the belief that immigration should be reduced ’ . |
| 29 | One of the things I feel about Throwing Muses music is that it 's visceral , sexual , but not sexy . |
| 30 | The tension increased on the road because David and DeFries had a very important relationship that was crumbling and one of the things about the relationship was the direction that DeFries did supply for him . |