Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 2 | If a report has to go through a number of drafts , it is an excellent way of enabling changes to be made quickly and without extensive retyping . |
| 3 | This suggests that , rather then being promptly eliminated by arbitrage , the mispricings ( before transactions costs ) tended to persist for a number of days . |
| 4 | Brian Harley had seemed short of inspiration too , and his putting had failed to compensate for a number of lapses in his long game . |
| 5 | This could lead to neighbouring local authorities co-operating to provide for a number of full-time councillors ( Widdicombe 1986 : 136 ) . |
| 6 | You have been using " n " to stand for a number or set of numbers . |
| 7 | Although these are specialised positions , each team member needs to be flexible enough to work in a number of projects in different areas . |
| 8 | The Office for Fine Arts in the Netherlands has decided to rid itself of most of the 230,000 works of art which have been left to deteriorate in a number of large depots around the country . |
| 9 | We organized at least a dozen ‘ Letters to the Editor ’ each day — these were mainly unsolicited , but we encouraged more — and spread them about so as to appear in a number of newspapers and magazines across the country . |
| 10 | was even more true to form , with Bernard Cribbins cementing the debut he made in Carry On Jack , but with the addition of Eric Barker , Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale ( who was to appear in a number of the series ) . |
| 11 | As one of Scotland 's senior education professionals , he has brought his experience to bear on a number of organisations outwith the Council including the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , as education adviser , and the University Grants Committee . |
| 12 | To the LDDC it seemed apparent that any effective programme for Docklands would need to concentrate on a number of key objectives . |
| 13 | They are therefore both concerned to establish on a number of different fronts how the precepts of law can be related to reality . |
| 14 | Behind this basic structure , teams were found to differ on a number of variables . |
| 15 | The Meretz group , which formed part of the new Israeli coalition government [ see p. 39028 ] , signed on July 9 a coalition agreement with the Labour Party which recognized Meretz 's right to differ on a number of points . |
| 16 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
| 17 | Any proposals to alter the situation faced by older workers have to work at a number of levels : developing new social roles ; using legislation to change attitudes ; improving work prospects ; raising income levels ; increasing the effectiveness of health and social policies . |
| 18 | You can focus your students on visual elements by getting them to talk about a number of aspects of a scene . |
| 19 | As noted in pp 30–31 , the life of this committee is not easy to chart for a number of reasons , and this has made it difficult to determine precisely what has been achieved and to what extent this is attributable to the project . |
| 20 | Y'know that somehow um , perhaps rather like the psychoanalytic notion of repression , something like that , somehow um er they 've been unable to remember for a number of years , possibly even decades , and er something triggers it . |
| 21 | I relate this because some ten years after the conflict , that is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only superficially healed , my father was called into Mr John Silvers 's study to be told that this very same personage — I will call him simply ‘ the General ’ — was due to visit for a number of days to attend a house party , during which my father 's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business transaction . |
| 22 | The F-MAP package allows the user to choose from a number of options , called ‘ electives ’ in SYMAP language . |
| 23 | And in order to achieve this end , the spirit has to dwell within a number of different entities . |
| 24 | As for the borrowing lecture and the lecture on job creation , I have been able to state on a number of occasions when I have been a little more demotic that all independent forecast suggest that under a Labour Government — heaven forbid — borrowing and unemployment would be higher . |
| 25 | Police now want to talk to a number of people who were in St Giles just before the attack … they think they are vital witnesses . |
| 26 | HWIM 's solution was to look for a number of best-scoring seed words bottom-up and then to predict possible extensions ( words or word classes ) at either end of the seed word . |
| 27 | on a cursory inspection and by the methods in current use , to consist of a number of interdependent sub-systems — the economy , the status system , the polity , the kinship systems and the institutions which have in their special custody the cultivation of cultural values Each of these sub-systems itself comprises a network of organisations which are connected , with varying degrees of affirmation , through a common authority , overlapping personnel , personal relationships , contracts , perceived identities of interest , a sense of affinity within a transcendent whole and a territorial location possessing a symbolic value . |
| 28 | There 's a few issues I 'd like to cover from a number of comments , I 'll I 'll |
| 29 | You can also contact your local Social Services Department , who may be able to help in a number of ways . |
| 30 | This index page allows you to select from a number of listing options which provide information about Design Changes ( DCs ) . |