Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1985 onwards a number of additional formidable barriers to progress towards a coherent , integrated under-fives policy began to emerge . |
| 2 | Devlin scored the second after a number of scrums , free kicks and penalties all close to the line , and in injury time John Paul Speirs touched down to ensure victory . |
| 3 | This will be looked at in Chapter 7 where a number of commercial DBMS are investigated . |
| 4 | In practice , many of the fossil fronds that one finds are sterile , and for these there a number of form genera , units of classification based on the shape of the fronds alone ( see p. 23 ) . |
| 5 | If the leadership of educational institutions is to be effective then a number of fundamental changes are needed . |
| 6 | Werner Reichert , of Egremont Road , Whitehaven , joined the Company in 1950 when a number of skilled German weavers were recruited and is now only one of two left . |
| 7 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 8 | We saw in Chapter 3 how a number of major morphological features , notably orogenic mountain belts and island arcs , coincide with convergent plate boundaries ; a superficial glance at the Earth 's morphology might even suggest that all significant sub-aerial topographic features are confined to such boundaries . |
| 9 | It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers . |
| 10 | It all started in 1882 when a number of local worthies , looking for ways of raising money to support Huddersfield Infirmary , decided to hold a ‘ Musical Gathering ’ on the Sunday of Feast Week . |
| 11 | The first bombs to fall on any British deaf school happened the day the war broke out at Margate on 3rd September 1939 when a number of incendiary bombs landed in the school grounds . |