Example sentences of "[adj] have [vb pp] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world . |
| 2 | This has highlighted a number of shortcomings in the technical arrangements . |
| 3 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 4 | GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs . |
| 5 | The changes in the Soviet Union since the arrival in power of Gorbachev in 1984 and its abolition at the end of 1991 have left a number of subjects for scrutiny in the economic field . |
| 6 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 7 | The European programme for completing the Single European Market by the end of 1992 has raised a number of questions about the labour market . |
| 8 | 1992 has seen a number of developments on this front . |
| 9 | Most of the older officers have worked in pollution control for several years and many have had a number of years experience in industry , which , they are quick to point out , affords them an ‘ insider 's ’ sympathetic understanding of the difficulties and costs which arise in complying with standards . |
| 10 | Our operating activities during 1992 have achieved a number of successes . |
| 11 | Thame , Oxfordshire-based distributor Transformation Software Ltd has announced a number of new extensions to its high end MultiGen virtual reality database modelling system , as well as a new , cheaper but less advanced derivative , ModelGen . |
| 12 | The companies within the Food Product Division made progress and in particular have secured a number of new customers . |