Example sentences of "'ve [verb] a number [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We 've received a number of apologies for absence .
2 The first one is that I , I 've received a number of complaints about colleagues smoking in the , in conference .
3 I 've received a number against .
4 I get people calling me up saying erm they 've got a memory call problem and er , I 've deleted a number of files off the disk , and the problem did n't go away .
5 But fretbuzz is a very subjective thing ; I 've met a number of players who will sacrifice all for a low playing action and are quite happy to put up with extraneous noises that others would run a mile to avoid .
6 which we 've done a number of times
7 Well it certainly is , and we think that we 've had an examin of our co , examination of the constitution , we 've made a number of changes , but the task for Labour now is to press on with the issues of looking at our policies , and making sure that our economic policy and our social policy a actually meets the changes that are out their in the world .
8 I think that one of the great problems , and I 've made a number of studies of individual Puritans in the seventeenth century , is that we talk about Puritanism and we think of Victorian Nonconformity .
9 So , instead of splashing out for the big one , we 've got a number of gorgeous jewels to give away .
10 You 've got a number of things here , you would take off the outer layer and you would bring it close to your body , if you , if you just pick it up with lots of layers around it you 're insulating it are n't you , to keep it cold , so you cuddle it close to your body right , and you remove outer layers of cloths Melanie said something about room temperature , right you raise the room temperature , okay ?
11 ‘ I remain Chairman of a large company , Harrison and Crosfield , Chairman of the Dover Harbour Board , which is also looking towards privatisation , and I 've got a number of charities I 'm involved in .
12 We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves .
13 I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned .
14 Yes but of of course we 've got a number of estates er around the Mansfield er but we have made inquiries we 've er er we 've made appeals through the press and the radio as you well know .
15 We 've got a number of motions on the agenda asking for the C E C to look carefully at the cost of training at the National College and at the regional education courses .
16 No I 've got a number of possibilities I 'm just check running through my mind which is the first one to go for .
17 I 've got a number of points I 'd like to come back on .
18 We 've got a number of questions we want to ask you , because er though you 're pivotal to all of our erm activities in this enquiry , we are also looking to a report which is hopefully going to be influenced the Bill the Government brings forward .
19 They 've got quite a few of these at erm at , at the Railway Trust , they 've er they 've got a number of these signal boxes .
20 You know say if you 've got a number of E O saying well I would like training in this
21 Some of you , you might have seen them , where you 've got a number of bolts that shoot into the top from the side of the frame and the whole thing operates at the turn of a key .
22 right , now what you 've got to judge at the end of the day , now lets say for instance that you 've put in six lines six lines , right and you only wanted to use two of them all you 've got a number for is the rental charge is n't it ?
23 ‘ I 've bought a number of good-quality second-hand items and they 've all been excellent value .
24 ‘ I 've had a number of opportunities and taking them , particularly in the oil industry , has sometimes been a desperate gamble . ’
25 Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up .
26 ‘ It may happen anyway — Portsmouth are good enough to get promotion this year and we 've had a number of really impressive wins . ’
27 It 's a six and two threes we 've had a number of times .
28 Erm we 's we 've had a number of changes in the water industry over the years .
29 We 've had a number of quotations and a number of reports here .
30 The Chairman of the erm that is already occurring , we 've had a number of reports erm already er flooding is based on a tide flap system erm so those you know we 're gon na have to live with that over the years .
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