Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No previous study of Scottish medieval prices exists , mainly because information on the subject is scarce , and scattered widely through a number of sources . |
| 2 | American reports say that the Pershing II , which is only a stretched , possibly over-stretched , Pershing I , has only once been fired successfully after a number of failures , and that over a shorter distance than will be required . |
| 3 | weekend that we are arranging this summer as we have done annually for a number of years . |
| 4 | Alternatively , they may well work on their own account , perhaps for a number of organisations simultaneously . |
| 5 | Subject to planning permission , it could sensibly have been used for development and perhaps for a number of other purposes … |
| 6 | He was a founder member of the Society of Chemical Industry ( 1881 ) , and became its foreign secretary in 1910 , remaining so for a number of years , and president in 1911–12 and 1914 . |
| 7 | It was near here , at roughly four o'clock on the green , that I placed the small house where the two friends Ella and Dimity lived amicably together for a number of years . |
| 8 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 9 | Only then may the supplier 's product be classified as satisfactory , and , perhaps after a number of years of further product tests have elapsed , the supplier may be added to the list of recognised contractors . |
| 10 | The Swiss Supreme Court says that any money will be released to the Philippine government only after a number of conditions have been met . |
| 11 | At one time boundaries were , in the main , marked by a white line , and it was only after a number of years of requesting the TCCB that in matches organised by them a rope be used to denote the boundary that this regulation was implemented , if my memory serves me correctly , for the 1983 season . |
| 12 | Traditionally the largest man-made hole in England , it is the result of the running together of a number of small quarries Cornish slates were widely employed for roofing in the county by the fourteenth century and indeed by 1314 they were certainly in use on buildings in Winchester , Hampshire . |
| 13 | Functionally it was an interlocking web of economic and social purpose of great imagination : a masterly bringing together of a number of town planning themes . |
| 14 | But there are many other instances where contributors take an adversarial stance against fellow reviewers ( " I submit that it is fatal to his case " ) , or one of advocacy on behalf of favoured authors ( Pope is " cleared entirely of a number of grave charges " ) . |
| 15 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 16 | Erm and this can leave people obviously with a number of traumas and a number of difficulties to deal with later on in life . |
| 17 | After nomination the candidate is entitled to be present at the issue of postal ballot papers , to visit the polling stations and the candidate , the candidate 's spouse ( if any ) , and ( except in parish or community elections ) the candidate 's election agent are entitled to be present at the count together with a number of counting agents . |
| 18 | There are now six farmsteads and a few cottages together with a number of modern bungalows . |
| 19 | An accompanying catalogue — designed by the artist — contains new essays by Rosalind Kraus and David Batchelor , together with a number of previously unpublished illustrations and texts . |
| 20 | It has also been helped with funding from the Museums and Galleries Commission , together with a number of foundations including the Henry Moore Foundation , The Pilgrim Trust and the J. Paul Getty Charitable Trust . |
| 21 | A study of the literature relating to recent child care legislation , policy and practice , together with a number of interviews carried out with individuals prominent in this field ( academics , practitioners and representatives of pressure groups ) focusing on policy shifts during the 1970s , suggested that at least two broad value positions , differing from each other on child care policy in important ways , might usefully be defined . |
| 22 | The king 's body , together with a number of priceless gold and bejewelled kerises attached to the scarlet wrappings , was handed into the grotto , but just as the carved wooden cover was about to be hammered into place behind it , Lorne announced that it was imperative to film the door being closed from the inside . |
| 23 | Wendell Harvey drew a sigh of satisfaction as , together with a number of other older parents , he prepared to leave the party . |
| 24 | Leading them must be R. K. Cope , who took pictures of the trackbed , complete with rails , bridges etc , together with a number of shots of stations with rolling stock standing in them . |
| 25 | The conference brought together historians working in a variety of fields , including those of extra-European history , and including those coming from academic traditions different from the Anglo-American one ( in particular the French ) , together with a number of colleagues from neighbouring disciplines . |
| 26 | The research included a historical account of the debate concerning the provision of shopping in Bowthorpe , interviews with small retailers in the Bowthorpe shopping complex , and a questionnaire survey of shoppers , together with a number of in-depth interviews . |
| 27 | This consists of about 40,000 slides , and a large ( and uncounted ) number of photographic negatives — modern and glass-plate — together with a number of plates . |
| 28 | Earls Court and Olympia together with a number of ancillary exhibition service companies . |
| 29 | Table 3.2 gives the mean risk ratings and mean accident estimates for the 40 junctions together with a number of other measures that will be described later . |
| 30 | For the army of Alba , it seemed , was not at all unprepared for the sudden emergence of the enemy from the wood and only waited politely , as before , for the troublesome stream to be crossed , together with a number of novel earthworks of Bishop Hrolf 's devising , before throwing itself in neat but different formation against Siward 's lines . |