Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , as the outcome if the Eastbourne parliamentary by-election demonstrated , a strong local electoral base developed over a number of years can provide the Liberal Democrats with the opportunity for a sensational , if perhaps transient , victory . |
| 2 | a number of the savings erm and the increased income that is available to , to avoid savings are the result of your own policies developed over a number of years and I hope implemented with a degree of further manage managerial action which has actually given you some money to spend , erm which will avoid you having to make er painful cuts in order to fund a new growth and in particular I would highlight the significant movement that has has now taken place , children from special educational needs provision outside the county , back into the county . |
| 3 | Activity in Oxford city hospitals is at present scattered across a number of main sites ( the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals , the Radcliffe Infirmary , and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre ) as well as several smaller specialised sites ( Warneford , Littlemore , Rivermead , etc . ) . |
| 4 | Concurrents Concurrents is the term given to a number in the series 1 to 7 assigned to each year , and has close correspondence with the dominical letter . |
| 5 | The success of these courses in influencing the quality of school and classroom practice depended on a number of factors , some of them — like the receptiveness of teachers attending them and the willingness of schools to encourage and accommodate change — beyond the control of the course providers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This study looks at the Housing Benefit review system , drawing on data collected from a number of sources . |
| 8 | The aesthetics of fractals is celebrated by Peter Telljohann , born 1935 , at Carla Stutzer ( Kamekestrasse 21 ) with ‘ Millers ’ a piece made of a number of small , changeable wooden sculptures , all the same colour . |
| 9 | Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years . |
| 10 | One notable sequel reported in the Sunday Times of 6 January was a demonstration mounted by a number of Saudi women , not normally allowed to drive , who sent away their drivers and drove their cars around Riyadh . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Out of a total of 15 million investment provided by a number of financial institutions , the SDA contributed £500,000 in the form of preference shares . |
| 13 | My distress when this bombshell was dropped must have left its mark , for some time later I received a letter enclosing a card signed by a number of Australian cricketers , including Bradman , at a private dinner party . |
| 14 | Option 4 : The sum of pixels seen over a number of successive pictures with different exposures . |
| 15 | Commercial Liability suffered from a number of large losses during the year . |
| 16 | This has proved to be a successful exercise with cost and efficiency improvements made in a number of areas . |
| 17 | Compensation for cross boundary flows suffered from a number of flaws and disincentives : a Compensation was not made in cash but only as an adjustment to a district 's RAWP target after a two-year time lag . |
| 18 | Ltd. , Gomba Exim Ltd. , Routestone Ltd. , Rathbone Hotel Ltd. and Gomba Mansions Ltd. , were advanced substantial sums of money secured on a number of security documents by the first defendant , Minories Finance Ltd. , then known as Johnson Mathey Bankers Ltd . |
| 19 | For example , as we explain in the Case Study on pp. 199–207 , the European Court has condemned rules imposed by a number of member states which required insurance undertakings to do business in those states through persons established in those states . |
| 20 | A review of the HLCA system is relevant but overall limits on qualifying numbers are not proposed and the setting of stock numbers to meet conservation interests would be extremely difficult to achieve on large upland areas grazed by a number of farmers with hefted flocks . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Enterprise zones originated in a number of ideas that began to amalgamate towards the end of the 1970s . |
| 23 | The jurisdiction of the 1864 Act applied to a number of naval ports and army garrison towns in England and Ireland . |
| 24 | Three RYA teaching videos , produced at our centres over the last three years , are now standard teaching texts used in a number of countries . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | During the first half of the 16th century , the mill passed through a number of hands before being sold by John Sandford to the Clutterbuck family , who owned and worked it until fairly late in the 18th century . |
| 27 | Some interesting manufacturing articles coupled with a number of visits to blue chip companies helped considerably : we were not alone ! |
| 28 | The daytime course of the sun perceived in a number of images . |
| 29 | In addition to this more or less regular sort of investiture , there seem to have been investitures on a number of special occasions , both state occasions such as the accession of a sultan , a victory or the birth of a prince , where the right of investiture extended to a number of scholars , and also more personal occasions such as a scholar 's acceding to a high learned office , where the right of investiture was limited to the individual involved . |
| 30 | Secondly , this work diffused in a number of different geographic and theoretical directions . |