Example sentences of "take a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council will take a number of factors into account when making up its mind whether to give a development the go-ahead . |
| 2 | Schizophrenia can take a number of forms . |
| 3 | The increasing emphasis on capital projects within an annual budgetary cycle creates problems in that it may take a number of years to acquire and to develop urban sites . |
| 4 | Medical help may take a number of different forms . |
| 5 | It would take a number of sketches and some research should you wish to recreate such a dramatic visual experience . |
| 6 | Swiss foods manufacturing giant Nestle SA has signed a worldwide agreement with Microsoft Corp to standardise its software on Windows : the contract covers a total of 30,000 users and will take a number of months to implement , but no financial terms were available ; software from WordPerfect Corp , Ashton-Tate Corp 's Multimate and Lotus Development Corp 's Lotus 1-2-3 will be replaced with Word 2.0 for Windows and Excel 4.0 ; Nestle will also use Microsoft Mail 3.0 , Microsoft Project 3.0 , Microsoft PowerPoint 3.0 , and LAN Manager 2.2 will be the network operating system . |
| 7 | This is a process which may take a number of reruns to achieve what we would consider to be a satisfactory outcome . |
| 8 | Expansion could take a number of forms , as exemplified not only in the differences between , for example , Spanish and English colonization of the ‘ New World ’ but also between different English colonies . |
| 9 | Price discrimination can take a number of forms ( Phlips , 1983 ; Varian , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | Company meetings can take a number of linguistic forms : the formal use of international ( or ‘ off-shore ’ ) English at the negotiating table , with informal exchanges in other languages ; meetings in the language of the country ( perhaps with interpretation at least of the whispered type ) or multi-lingual meetings where each participant contributes in his own language . |
| 11 | They can take a number of different forms , as , for example : |
| 12 | This relationship may take a number of different forms . |
| 13 | This may take a number of different forms : |
| 14 | A collision margin can take a number of forms , depending on the characteristics of the interacting plate boundaries . |
| 15 | It could take a number of years before we get them all on A L O courses and in fact there 's no way w I assume there 's no way we can put them on A L O courses til they 've done a crime prevention course at Is that right David ? |
| 16 | President , delegates , harassment has been clearly defined , and c can take a number of forms . |