Example sentences of "take [adv] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We seem to be erm , taking on an enormous number of staff , er , er , at what level are we doing it ? |
| 3 | You 've got no more money but twenty pounds so taking away a negative number is the same as adding , yeah ? |
| 4 | The word Resident normally implied , at least officially , a preponderance of diplomatic over administrative duties , but it was clear from the beginning that a Lugardian Resident was expected to take on a large number of purely administrative tasks . |
| 5 | He has a scheme to take over a small number of simple churches and adapt them as retreats . |
| 6 | So if I take away a negative number it 's the same as adding . |
| 7 | Add take away a negative number is the same as add the positive number . |
| 8 | If I take away a positive number of course that 's taken as normal take away . |
| 9 | Take away a positive number , well okay we |
| 10 | Add a negative number , this is when I said I 'm going to add minus eight pounds to your money tonight , add a negative number is the same as take away a positive number . |
| 11 | Con Tours ( the big London-based travel agents ) have an arrangement with the hotel by which they receive preference bookings during June/July/August in exchange for an undertaking to take up a minimum number of bookings for the ‘ 'shoulder ’ months of May and September . |