Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.7 TGAT recommended that the attainment targets should be grouped in a small number of profile components in order to make the reporting of results comprehensible and manageable . |
| 2 | Seventeen random numbers in the range 000 to 200 ( representing the record keys ) can be selected by choosing the first numbers within the required range occurring in a random number table . |
| 3 | Since children vary with respect to the ages at which they demonstrate any particular behaviour , norms represent an ‘ average ’ obtained from an examination of the developmental changes occurring in a large number of children . |
| 4 | Similar changes are simultaneously occurring in a large number of advanced societies ( Challis , 1992b ; Kraan et al. , 1991 ) , albeit in slightly different ways for different client groups , Of course this simple conception of change requires further elaboration . |
| 5 | The restructuring approach tended to focus more on detailed investigation of what had been happening in a small number of cases , in a particular industry perhaps . |
| 6 | Disappearance of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies after treatment with corticosteroids has been reported in a small number of patients . |
| 7 | However , while Johnson 's coat-tails had carried in a sizeable number of members of congress this was not true of Carter who , in fact , ran behind no less than 270 successful Democratic candidates for the House . |
| 8 | In this section , we shall describe a method of avoiding cycling , allowing us to conclude that parametric programming problems can be solved in a finite number of steps . |
| 9 | For the rest of the decade the working classes were only depicted in a small number of undistinguished films which celebrated or exploited the skills of particular groups of workers . |
| 10 | But advertisements continued to appear in a large number of local London papers and provincial papers and even a religious publication , The Rock . |
| 11 | Take the case of mouth of river : it participates in a significant number of meaning-relations : |
| 12 | In contrast to most of the statutorily required information , the information produced by these ‘ commentators ’ , and the information from the players that they are not legally required to release , but have chosen to do so voluntarily , can appear in a large number of logical documentary formats : |
| 13 | Group I introns reside in a large number of genomes from various sources such as phages T4 and SPO1 ( 47 , 48 , 49 ) , cyanobacteria ( 50 , 51 ) , plastids ( 52 , 53 ) , mitochondria and nuclei ( Tetrahymena ( 54 ) ; Physarum ( 55 ) ) . |
| 14 | They can be grown in a large number of different ways but are typically one or two microns thick though they may be millimetres or even centimetres long . |
| 15 | Also progressive mental impairment severe enough to be called dementia sometimes occurs in a small number of those with AIDS , usually in the latter stages of the syndrome . |
| 16 | For longer word lists , this can result in a different number of nodes ( and therefore edges ) . |
| 17 | ( This exchange system enabled some universities to establish very large collections of theses , but it was very costly , since it depended on the production of multiple copies of theses , and the practise was only operating in a small number of American universities by the start of Worl War II . |
| 18 | However , in the past few years , there has been a trend for the BEd degree courses to be regarded as the main vehicle for training primary school teachers , with would-be secondary school teachers undertaking the one-year Post-Graduate Certificate in Education course , which is also offered in a substantial number of public sector colleges . |
| 19 | Charles Dickens seemed to have stayed in a remarkable number of houses in Broadstairs , the Lionisers were beginning to fed , looking at their itinerary on Thursday morning . |
| 20 | It could lead to unjustifiable situations resulting in a great number of injustices and I do not think we should continue with it . … |
| 21 | Commonly claims range over a number of " points of claim " resulting in a large number of " heads of damage " under which the contractor claims to have suffered loss . |
| 22 | This lack of ascription was subsequently remedied by the shorter prologue , which survives in a limited number of manuscripts of the Pactus : apparently known to the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum , the shorter prologue seems to date from the late seventh or early eighth century . |
| 23 | Bedyngham 's music survives in a surprising number of different manuscripts , especially his secular songs . |
| 24 | But like no other yet characterised it seems able to exist and function in a large number of structural permutations . |
| 25 | It was argued that users of financial statements should be aware that the performance of complex organisations can not be summarised in a single number and that to obtain a proper understanding of such performance , knowledge of a range of important aspects is required . |
| 26 | Women concentrate in a small number of occupations and most of these are located in the lower rungs of the occupational and grading hierarchies . |
| 27 | Pollution control problems arise from the number and variety of industrial and manufacturing processes employed in industries set in an entirely urban environment , since domestic sources , with few exceptions , are efficiently treated in a small number of large sewage works . |
| 28 | More significant is the fact that they are concentrated in a limited number of types of job . |
| 29 | Today the major part of the public sector operates below subsistence level , while production is concentrated in a small number of large , efficient private enterprises . |
| 30 | Planned studies will compare strength of stereotype formation , when the same amount of information about a novel group is either concentrated in a small number of salient individuals , or dispersed across several members of the group . |