Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have discussed how the requirement for external confidentiality will limit the approach to potential purchasers and the consequential sale strategy which will involve contacting only a small number of potential purchasers , most of which are likely to be foreign companies . |
| 2 | Her sheer emotional and physical energy nevertheless took its physical toll , and at various times in her life she abused alcohol and drugs as well as notching up a significant number of car accidents of varying degrees of seriousness . |
| 3 | The Victorian customer would shop with great regularity , often on a daily basis , buying only a small number of products on each trip . |
| 4 | Mares in stalls make mucking out a large number easier . |
| 5 | Sending out a sufficient number of Bracewell-style probes would be prohibitively expensive . |
| 6 | Then the game continues with the player now in the middle calling out a different number . |
| 7 | The more dedicated among them combed both the cultivated and wild places of the world in search of novelties and in doing so a good number of them lost their lives , in some cases in tragic circumstances . |
| 8 | Many distributions show a peak in a particular age group mainly associated with taking on a large number of young people when the organisation was started or reorganised , this is not desirable because it leads to excessive competition for promotion at particular stages . |
| 9 | You 've got no more money but twenty pounds so taking away a negative number is the same as adding , yeah ? |
| 10 | However , when he returned in 1908 to the foreign ministry in St Petersburg he was struck by finding there a considerable number of women typists who " filled the offices , walked arm in arm in the corridors , and flirted with everybody " . |
| 11 | However this system is restricted to recognising only a small number of words since it must be explicitly trained for every word in the vocabulary . |
| 12 | The language of the Code is taken to constitute the major premise so that Lord Herschell said in Bank of England v Vagliano Brothers [ 1891 ] AC 107 : " [ T ] he law should be ascertained from interpreting the language used instead of , as before , roaming over a vast number of authorities in order to discover what the law was … " ( p145 ) . |
| 13 | Where a government is very keen to press on with its programme , and where it can foresee that it would otherwise be frustrated by pressure of time , it can move that a timetable be adopted for a particular measure and , if the House so resolves , the Business Committee of the House will arrange a programme for a particular Bill , setting aside a specific number of days for each stage . |
| 14 | After building the 2-bit latch , connect the battery and check operation by setting up a binary number such as 10 . |