Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | a number of the savings erm and the increased income that is available to , to avoid savings are the result of your own policies developed over a number of years and I hope implemented with a degree of further manage managerial action which has actually given you some money to spend , erm which will avoid you having to make er painful cuts in order to fund a new growth and in particular I would highlight the significant movement that has has now taken place , children from special educational needs provision outside the county , back into the county . |
| 2 | Option 4 : The sum of pixels seen over a number of successive pictures with different exposures . |
| 3 | This has proved to be a successful exercise with cost and efficiency improvements made in a number of areas . |
| 4 | Compensation for cross boundary flows suffered from a number of flaws and disincentives : a Compensation was not made in cash but only as an adjustment to a district 's RAWP target after a two-year time lag . |
| 5 | For example , as we explain in the Case Study on pp. 199–207 , the European Court has condemned rules imposed by a number of member states which required insurance undertakings to do business in those states through persons established in those states . |
| 6 | A review of the HLCA system is relevant but overall limits on qualifying numbers are not proposed and the setting of stock numbers to meet conservation interests would be extremely difficult to achieve on large upland areas grazed by a number of farmers with hefted flocks . |
| 7 | Enterprise zones originated in a number of ideas that began to amalgamate towards the end of the 1970s . |
| 8 | Three RYA teaching videos , produced at our centres over the last three years , are now standard teaching texts used in a number of countries . |
| 9 | The second part of study will focus on the problem areas identified in a number of firms through the initial survey ; the researchers will work with these firms to give small amounts of assistance aimed at easing some of the marketing bottlenecks . |
| 10 | Some interesting manufacturing articles coupled with a number of visits to blue chip companies helped considerably : we were not alone ! |
| 11 | A research programme concerned with the evaluation of the SCONUL tape/slide instructional programmes produced by a number of British university libraries , has been carried out , from 1973 to 1975 , at the Institute for Educational Technology , University of Surrey . |
| 12 | Political pressure to introduce deeper cuts in military programmes intensified in a number of NATO countries . |
| 13 | You might for example have a card on the theme/keyword " the sublime " , including notes drawn from a number of different books . |
| 14 | Suppose there is a single trade union , representing workers employed in a number of perfectly competitive firms in a particular industry . |
| 15 | Real wear is the cumulative result of a vast number of very minor rubs and abrasions from a variety of preferred angles concentrated at a number of areas such as extremities or where one component rubs against another , such as on the links of a chain or the catch of a clasp . |
| 16 | This recommendation resonates ideas found in a number of contemporary reports and policy papers . |
| 17 | Well-marked tracks led in a number of directions , one straight towards a low gap in a stone wall . |
| 18 | What hitherto had been integrated plants in countries like the UK , carrying out complete manufacturing processes , are closed down and rationalized in order to manufacture products more cheaply from parts manufactured by workers divided between a number of countries . |
| 19 | Several examples of assessment frameworks or structures used in a number of research and development projects were given earlier . |
| 20 | Two previous years of good domestic summer weather had depressed the anticipated number of overseas holidays and this is probably reflected in the low 1985 figures shown for a number of operators . |
| 21 | Detailed field studies based on a number of primary and secondary schools , in different parts of the country , which will have recently undergone a major evaluation exercise . |
| 22 | The nurseries experimented with a number of ways of inviting parents to contribute to the records of their own children and of the nursery . |
| 23 | Figures compiled over a number of years revealed frequency rates of : |
| 24 | The presidents agreed on a number of points relating to the 10-year-old civil war in El Salvador and the sanctuary given to Nicaraguan contra rebels in Honduras . |
| 25 | Despite being a closed set of terms linked with a number of functioning elements , deixis lacks a taxonomy of occurrences because of its pragmatic base . |
| 26 | Similarly , semantic theories derived from a number of disciplines ( e.g. , linguistics , philosophy , formal logic ) have formulated theories of meaning , on which psycholinguists can base theories of how those meanings are computed in humans . |
| 27 | The mirror can be silver , bronze tinted or smoke tinted , and the panels can be cut to six , and have their edges finished in a number of different ways . |
| 28 | Often the quality of the translation may be tested by examining the items indexed under a number of possible terms that might have been used to describe a subject in an index . |
| 29 | This lead to a highly variable instruction form whereby an instruction consists of a one or two byte opcodes followed by a number of operands specific to that opcode . |
| 30 | But this is still a rare instance , Likewise , at the in-service level , very few authorities can match the well-conceived programme of courses for teachers produced over a number of years by Geoffrey Hodson and Maureen Price of I.L.E.A. But until we can sort out our muddled thinking that surrounds the subject , there is a danger that the next ‘ official ’ report will not fare any better . |