Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tension persists in a number of spheres . |
| 2 | Serious violence erupted in a number of states during campaigning in April and May . |
| 3 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 4 | Dustin and Schisgal had met earlier in August 1966 at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge , Massachusetts , where Dustin acted in a number of Schisgal plays — the Old Jew in the play of that name , Max in Reverberations ( changed later to The Basement ) and Jax in Fragments . |
| 5 | As well as the extent of product market concentration a further influence concerned the spatial or geographical concentration found in a number of important industries in Britain . |
| 6 | The costs of the experiment arise in a number of ways . |
| 7 | Discrepancies with the tax treatment of UK resident life offices arise in a number of respects . |
| 8 | Curriculum Development and Assessment : Covers work in a number of curriculum areas , notably Science , European Studies , Citizenship , English , the Primary Curriculum . |
| 9 | In the present article we describe an analysis of the evolutionary conservation of SSRP1 which reveals that homologous sequences occur in a number of species including Drosophila melanogaster . |
| 10 | This has proved to be a successful exercise with cost and efficiency improvements made in a number of areas . |
| 11 | It was an outlook formed in a number of Rational Dissenters active against the slave trade , by adherence to the ‘ Real Whig ’ tradition of liberalism , so copiously analysed in recent years . |
| 12 | Enterprise zones originated in a number of ideas that began to amalgamate towards the end of the 1970s . |
| 13 | Between 1960 and 1978 , ‘ Food imports rose in a number of countries where agribusiness and local commercial farmers have been most active in modernising the sector ( Argentina , Colombia , Guatemala and Mexico ) ’ ( Armstrong and McGee 1985 : 77 ) . |
| 14 | Each word in the window participates in a number of transitions . |
| 15 | The 1692 issue exists in a number of states , which differ most obviously in the way their preliminary leaves are arranged : |
| 16 | Three RYA teaching videos , produced at our centres over the last three years , are now standard teaching texts used in a number of countries . |
| 17 | The second part of study will focus on the problem areas identified in a number of firms through the initial survey ; the researchers will work with these firms to give small amounts of assistance aimed at easing some of the marketing bottlenecks . |
| 18 | He was already working as a freelance cartoonist and his work appeared in a number of magazines . |
| 19 | Yet French influence continued in a number of ways . |
| 20 | The daytime course of the sun perceived in a number of images . |
| 21 | Secondly , this work diffused in a number of different geographic and theoretical directions . |
| 22 | Political pressure to introduce deeper cuts in military programmes intensified in a number of NATO countries . |
| 23 | The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) . |
| 24 | Suppose there is a single trade union , representing workers employed in a number of perfectly competitive firms in a particular industry . |
| 25 | This recommendation resonates ideas found in a number of contemporary reports and policy papers . |
| 26 | Well-marked tracks led in a number of directions , one straight towards a low gap in a stone wall . |
| 27 | In the United States , although associations for multi-employer bargaining purposes exist in a number of key areas and industries , there are none with the membership density or authoritative stature possessed by many of their European counterparts ( Adams , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | Between 1888 and 1900 Aglen served in a number of posts in Peking , Amoy , Canton , and Tientsin ; in 1897 he was appointed to the rank of commissioner ; and shortly after the Boxer rising broke out in 1900 he was posted to Shanghai as officiating inspector-general while Hart was a refugee in the British legation under siege in Peking . |
| 29 | A number of countries retain withholding taxes , such as the UK and Belgium ; issuance queues remain in a number of markets , as do limits on the extent to which certain types of borrowers can make euroissues , constraints on use of such funds and restrictions on institutional investors ' freedom to acquire foreign securities . |
| 30 | Peak generation occurs at about 1% reflectance rather than at the 2–3% reflectance reported in a number of published studies . |