Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] large number " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is quite clear that a large number of people believe these three , who have now been in prison for 13 years , to be innocent of the crime for which they stand convicted . |
| 2 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 3 | At lower temperatures , nucleation is rapid and a large number of small spherulites are formed . |
| 4 | If the candidate replies that she/he helped run a youth club in the town where she/he lived before you can be reasonably sure that a large number of young people is not going to come as a strange new experience . |
| 5 | S6 There are currently two sets sitting or resitting Higher and a large number of pupils sitting Sixth Year Studies in Papers 1 , 2 , 3 and 5 . |
| 6 | I then multiply it by five and the larger number exceeds the smaller number by 8 . |
| 7 | There is a full agenda and the clerk to the council is optimistic that a large number of villagers will attend to give their views on local issues . |
| 8 | Because of the size of the data this is a large commitment to space which is only worthwhile where a large number of people want to look at a lot of the data . |
| 9 | Is not it true that a large number of small firms are in the tourism sector ? |
| 10 | It is absolutely true that a large number of people who could not remotely be described as rich would be hit by the proposal . |
| 11 | Development of the Contexts Box began in 1990 and a large number of schools assisted in its evaluation . |