Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period a number of alarming forecasts were made . |
| 2 | PERHAPS it was the presence of TV cameras on the company 's Fleet Street trading floor , or perhaps it was a genuine surge of Conservative support , but for some reason a number of staff at Goldman Sachs were instructed to wear blue shirts , ties and braces for election day . |
| 3 | For this reason a number of theologians , right up to the modem day , have been profoundly uninterested in the historical debate over Christian origins . |
| 4 | For this reason a number of researchers have attempted to work with speaker variables which are less abstract than social class , teasing out more specific aspects of the relationship between language and social structure . |
| 5 | Local authorities are large-scale organisations providing a multiplicity of services and as such present a number of managerial problems . |
| 6 | For the rest of this chapter a number of different problems will be discussed comparatively briefly . |
| 7 | In those patients who are identified as having been at risk of sudden death a number of therapeutic options should be considered . |
| 8 | In each case a number of issues arose , some of which were resolved , as they attempted to modify their classroom practice . |
| 9 | Until 1880 oil was the only illuminant in use , but in that year a number of West Coast vehicles were lighted by compressed shale oil gas or , as it was commonly known , Pope 's gas . |
| 10 | But , in contrast , they may partly see the ad in this way a number of times during quite a short period . |
| 11 | Although the remit of the Treaty of Rome was relatively narrow in this area a number of directives were adopted covering collective redundancies ( 1975 ) ; employee rights in the event of company takeovers ( 1977 ) or insolvency ( 1980 ) ; equal pay ( 1975 ) ; equal access to employment , vocational training ( 1976 ) and social security ( 1986 ) . |
| 12 | In this area a number of small clothing-manufacturers had set themselves up since the war , migrating out from the East End of London . |
| 13 | There are in this force a number of young men who have fixed hours of duty — 8.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. with every Sunday off . |
| 14 | It is convenient to consider separately in this chapter a number of other exact solutions that satisfy this same condition . |
| 15 | The department also offers in this programme a number of courses in Ancient Near Eastern Religions . |
| 16 | In this section a number of techniques of digital image processing which can be applied to Landsat TM and MSS images are described . |
| 17 | For example , in one case a number of Staffordshire businessmen were keen to make a bid for a £75 million contract for the construction of security fencing around a British military base in Germany . |
| 18 | In one school a number of " themes " were identified : homes , school , religion and the Church , trade , and communications ( roads , seafaring ) . |
| 19 | In any case a number of these old pupils found that neither the church nor the State made any provision for them , and agreed among themselves to meet together for prayer and worship . |
| 20 | Since this time a number of staff have been employed to organise appeals and to raise money . |
| 21 | On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France . |
| 22 | Natural language semantics can be defined as the study of the meaning of utterances , and to this end a number of semantic theories have been proposed . |
| 23 | Editor , — After being transferred to human insulin a number of patients have complained that they do not recognise hypoglycaemia as clearly as they used to with animal insulin . |
| 24 | We were , however , readier , I think , than at the beginning , to take seriously and to counter , the equally serious convictions of those who held that there was no place for courses similar to ours , of which there were at that time a number in various stages of development . |
| 25 | At this juncture a number of assumptions regarding man 's rationally-ordered consciousness were being of course challenged . |
| 26 | At this point a number of options are available , using the same technique , a ring of vertical segments can be assembled to give the work depth . |
| 27 | I met at this time a number of adopted children , and realised that the problems we all faced were similar , whatever the child 's colour happened to be . |
| 28 | There were at one time a number of city-states , each with its own god . |