Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 2 | This program is better than a great number of Commercial drawing packages for children . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This option is chosen automatically when more than a certain number of measurements fall outside a certain tolerance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 9 | The poll early next year would elect a coalition government made up of all the parties winning more than a minimum number of seats to lead the country to majority rule in the year 2000 . |
| 10 | So take a tip from none other than Graham Greene : " A story has n't room for more than a limited number of created characters . " |
| 11 | However , most laboratories which produce more than a modest number of thin sections are now equipped with appropriate automatic and semi-automatic systems . |
| 12 | The owner is company director Paul Scott , who says the giant painting in his entrance hall cost no more than a personalised number plate . |
| 13 | Since slides are treated at a number of different temperatures in the protocols , it is convenient if a sufficient number of water baths and ovens can be maintained at these temperatures without the need for continuous readjustment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It would appear that the only Shetlanders who have reason to go into the estates at all , other than a small number of professional Shetlanders who have incomer friends who live there , are young Shetlander girls who are willing to babysit when most of the women in a social circle are attending the same function , or Shetlanders supplying some domestic service to individual households on the estates . |
| 16 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 17 | This is particularly true if a high number of small files are being offlined . |