Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 2 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 3 | Hope asked the greatest number of questions , 782 , while Tite , who seems to have been anxious to display his professional knowledge as well as counteract Hope 's stylistic bias , was a persistent questioner , with 426 questions . |
| 4 | In January , Mr Waldegrave , Health Secretary , announced the total number of homes to be provided was being topped up to 750 . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the anomalous condition produced the greatest number of incorrect lexical decisions ( i.e. NO responses to real words ) . |
| 6 | The Entrance Examination produced the usual number of candidates ( about 350 ) , but of these half would be interested only if a bursary or some other sort of aided place could be provided . |
| 7 | Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ? |
| 8 | were the judges Mrs got the highest number of lots and won the cup is it |
| 9 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 10 | Booth described the large number of charities established by religious bodies in London in increasing numbers from the 1860s . |
| 11 | For the rest Alliance retained the same number of seats with two changes within their number , and SDLP lost two seats . |
| 12 | Page 235 states : ’ In our surveys the British samples reported the greater number of vocational learning experiences . |
| 13 | The food , drink and tobacco industry reported the greatest number of machine injuries with 940 between 1990 and 1991 . |
| 14 | Felkin 's enquiry in 1844 reported the following number of frames : Leicester 4,140 , Hinckley 1,750 , Shepshed 1,209 , Loughborough 906 , Earl Shilton 650 , Wigston 550 , Sileby 500 , Burbage 450 , Whitwick 423 , Thurmaston 400 , Barwell 367 , Oadby 350 , Enderby 350 , Blaby 322 , Whetsone 297 , Syston 280 , Cosby 250 , Sapcote 220 , Countesthorpe 214 , Barrow 210 , Stoke Golding 206 , Belgrave 200 , Stanton 200 , and so on in ever decreasing numbers . |
| 15 | He also mentioned the increasing number of visitors to the hills , disturbance to wildlife , changing landscape and ugly estate tracks ( of which Balmoral estate has some prime examples ) . |
| 16 | Of these the Poor Man 's Lawyer scheme involved the greatest number of solicitors and barristers , having begun at Toynbee Hall in 1893 and spread from there . |
| 17 | The Gallup survey , carried out for Realeat , part of the Haldane Foods Group , found the total number of people who avoided red meat , including vegetarians , vegans and those who still ate chicken or fish , totalled six million or 11pc of the population . |
| 18 | Far too many of them , however , soon started to produce technical problems of one kind or another which almost immediately swamped the tiny number of experts in organic materials who were available at the Royal Aircraft Establishment . |
| 19 | Whilst the weather could have been kinder for the photographers wishing to capture the splendid liveries of the trams , both in the sheds and on the extensive outdoor system , we managed to dodge the couple of showers and visited the considerable number of preserved vehicles and small exhibits . |
| 20 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 21 | Added to the Right-On readers , they effectively expanded the core group and provided a viable number of buyers . |
| 22 | It was noticeable that the libraries who listed a substantial number of local authority courses were often the ones who listed substantial numbers of internal and external courses as well , so that there was a strong relationship between total number of courses and involvement of local authority ( see Table 24 ) . |
| 23 | They plastered a considerable number of parked aircraft with sticky labels marked ‘ bomb ’ : the station commander reportedly was furious the following morning . |
| 24 | The study found a small number of parts per billion of isopropyl methylphosphonic acid ( iPMPA ) in soil from bomb craters in the village of Birjinni in northern Iraq near the Turkish border . |
| 25 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 26 | Kipnis and Tsang ( 1984b ) analysed the S&P500 index for the period from April 1982 to January 1983 and , after allowing for transaction costs , found a considerable number of departures from the no-arbitrage condition , with both over- and underpricing being present . |
| 27 | The only time I considered the title of a book was when I found a large number of books from the same library together . |
| 28 | Secondly , they found a large number of studies which showed that parents of people with schizophrenia have greater marital disharmony than controls . |
| 29 | By means of the passwords ‘ peace and goodwill ’ the squad broke in and caught a considerable number of clients red-handed , red-faced and red in several other places as well . |
| 30 | Together they designed and supervised a large number of contracts , including the Wye Valley Railway , the Guernsey Tramway , the Cardiff and Penarth Tramway , the East Worcestershire Waterworks , and Totland Bay pier , as well as acting as engineers to the West Bromwich sanitary commissioners . |