Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
| 2 | It shows , unequivocally , that many men in the last years of their lives do assume roles and perform tasks which have been traditionally associated with women , and it is clear that a substantial number do so with skill and tenderness . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is also clear that an unknown number of officers have individually , over the years , passed material to loyalist terrorists . |
| 5 | If this is indeed the case , the country will be faced with a permanent pool of three to four million unemployed and an increasing number of pensioners : and add to this the fact that there are a greater number of industrialised nations than ever before , including many , in the Far East in particular , not only affecting , but embarrassing , large sections of our established business . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is also possible that an increased number of HAPCs correlates with the increased number of bowel movements commonly found in infants and children . |
| 8 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 9 | courses are also such that a substantial number of candidates never make the grade . |
| 10 | BA in-flight catering serves all long-haul and a small number of short-haul services from the UK , producing about 25,000 meals a day from Catering Centre South , where 1,200 people are employed . |
| 11 | A small number of languages , such as Fijian , even distinguish between singular , dual , trial ( covering three or a small number ) , and plural . |
| 12 | It is demonstrable that a suitable number of people cooperating on a task will achieve a better result than one person doing the same task . |
| 13 | It is likely that a considerable number of Romano-British by-roads came into existence in the same way for limited purposes and yet remain to be discovered on the map or on the ground . |
| 14 | In the future it is likely that an increasing number of services to schools will be contracted-out and any approach to whole-school planning must take this into account . |
| 15 | At lower temperatures , nucleation is rapid and a large number of small spherulites are formed . |
| 16 | This may be difficult when the warren is very large and a corresponding number of purse nets is needed but when working on burrow systems , rather than on the much larger warrens , twenty nets are often sufficient . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the Kanda method is destructive and many of the mitotic cells become unscorable but a sufficient number are conserved to give a clear indication of X-chromosome activity . |
| 18 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 19 | An individual scorer might be useful where an odd number of people are concerned . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I am sure that a considerable number of chemists — professionally recognised or otherwise — would be more encouraged to take up continuing education if this led to the award of a recognised National Vocational Qualification ( NVQ ) , or more appropriately a RSC certificate/diploma . |
| 22 | This program is better than a great number of Commercial drawing packages for children . |
| 23 | Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses . |
| 24 | Tobacco advertising revenue ( at £60.4mn ) is marginal ( average 2.4% ) for all but a tiny number of publications ( source : Media Register ) . |
| 25 | Also , it may be worth pointing out that most shareware distributors offer a policy whereby users buying more than a certain number of disks pay less per disk . |
| 26 | This option is chosen automatically when more than a certain number of measurements fall outside a certain tolerance . |
| 27 | Very few people will have the time and desire to follow up more than a small number of the leads that are referenced ; and those who do will usually be aware of the older literature , in any case . |
| 28 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |
| 29 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 30 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |