Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] for a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thus the name ‘ man ’ is simply a name used for a number of particulars , and any idea of ‘ man ’ is always an idea of some particular man , and simply reminds us of other particulars . |
| 3 | Two previous years of good domestic summer weather had depressed the anticipated number of overseas holidays and this is probably reflected in the low 1985 figures shown for a number of operators . |
| 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 | Figure 7.31 shows this mechanism now assembled as a four-bar chain , with its linkages re-established for a number of set angular positions of the first linkage . |
| 6 | This book is written for goat-keepers , and lists the medicines indicated for a number of conditions , together with dosage rates . |