Example sentences of "[adj] and [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment reached a peak of just under three million in January 1933 and the total number of unemployed did not fall below one million until the outbreak of war . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lot number twenty eight Lot twenty eight er the white jade bottle there 's the bottle showing a hundred pounds for it , at one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , twenty one thirty one thirty offered and selling for one hundred and thirty , one forty one forty against you now one forty to my left and selling for one hundred and forty pounds second row , thank you , one forty and the next number is number two one eight , thank you . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By then he was already active as an architect and his subsequent practice , mainly in the midlands but also on occasion further afield , developed immediately ; but his career was cut short by his early death at the age of forty-eight and the total number of his executed works was not large . |
| 7 | What number would go into fifty and the same number go into a hundred and fifty ? |
| 8 | He had a win/loss record of 76/17 and the fewest number of 1st round loses of any other player in 1991 , ( one , in 20 tournaments entered ) . |
| 9 | At lower temperatures , nucleation is rapid and a large number of small spherulites are formed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Among the former the number of fledglings produced per pair on average was 1.1 and the average number of offspring still alive after three months after fledging was 0.5 ( n = 47 ) . |
| 12 | The mean number of hits for a stimulus was 13.94 and the mean number of false alarms was 5.25 , each measured out of a possible maximum of 20 . |
| 13 | Estimates range from several thousands to tens of thousands of thyroid cancers arising from the exposure to iodine-131 and a similar number of cancers elsewhere in the body from caesium-137 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I then multiply it by five and the larger number exceeds the smaller number by 8 . |
| 16 | A recent survey of domestic burglaries in Northern Ireland , showed that almost half of he victims had left a window open and a similar number had left a door open . |
| 17 | This can be done successfully , but requires a tank large enough to provide open habitat for the other fish ( as well as the rocks for the Mbuna ) and that the Mbuna do not outnumber the others — Mbuna are far more boisterous and a small number of Aulonacaras in a predominantly Mbuna tank tend to be scared all the time , even though rarely actually attacked . |
| 18 | Agreed amendments to the law increased the number of Senate seats for the city of Bucharest from seven to 14 and the total number of seats in the Assembly of Deputies was raised from 331 to 387 . |
| 19 | It is known that many families emigrated to Canada during the fifty years from 1818 to 1868 and a great number of them came from the crofts . |
| 20 | Of course , there was a bit of a shake out in the mid-seventies and a fair number disappeared , which might explain … ’ |
| 21 | Development of the Contexts Box began in 1990 and a large number of schools assisted in its evaluation . |