Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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1 | We also get a number of visits at the playgroup , including the local road safety officer who talks to the children . |
2 | If you are using a multi-tasker try not run a large number of programs at the same . |
3 | This also means you are saving space by minimising the number of terminals at the reception desk . |
4 | There have been a number of burglaries at the Springtown and Pennyburn industrial estates . |
5 | In Darlington the council calculates there are approximately 18,800 houses in the bottom band while the number of houses at the peak is negligible . |
6 | Strangeways in Manchester , before recent riots , had between three and four hundred people present at the Church of England service , some two hundred at the Roman Catholic Mass and a good number of others at the Methodist service . |
7 | That will lead to an increase in the number of operations at the Royal . |
8 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
9 | Regional finalists will be asked to answer questions about a selected number of wines at the tasting . |
10 | Some of the archers thought that if the competition were restricted to longbows it would die out but , after a decrease when the steel bows first appeared , the number of longbows at the Scorton shoot is steadily increasing . |
11 | I arrived quite blind after a great number of cocktails at the George with Claud . |
12 | From a topographical point of view , these planned towns are the simplest towns to understand : but even here we are confronted with a number of questions at the outset . |
13 | The client may be offered a number of options at the end of the session . |
14 | The number of personnel at the ministries of Defence , Interior , Foreign Affairs and the Prosecutor 's office would be severely cut . |
15 | In subsequent analysis , therefore , all responses from individuals at addresses which had changed electors were weighted by the number of adults at the address divided by the number of electors originally on the register for that address . |
16 | It depends upon the weather and the number of visitors at the resorts , and greater flexibility is required than can be provided by simple fixed-term contracts . |
17 | Here again , both the size of larger holdings and the number of cottagers at the bottom end of the social scale increased as the Stuart era progressed . |
18 | Similarly , the picture we have of the civil service drawn from such programmes as Yes Minister ! only depicts a small number of Mandarins at the top of the civil service . |
19 | Many years later , starring in the musical Barnum , he would be walking the high wire , juggling and riding the unicycle himself , and breaking Danny Kaye 's record number of appearances at the London Palladium . |
20 | There are a number of experiments at the moment to improve the noise environment on our motorways and they include the most modern technology for noise barriers . |
21 | She said pedestrian refuges had helped to cut the number of accidents at the southern end of Ferryhill near the Darlington road junction which as seen several fatal incidents . |
22 | Krauss observes another case of mass reproduction in Manet 's ‘ assembly line ’ style of the continued overpainting of a large number of canvases at the same time . |
23 | neither Judge Sirica nor a number of pressmen at the trial were satisfied by this story . |
24 | These mean ratings , together with the number of vehicles at the junction and the time spent there , are presented in Table 3.5 . |
25 | It is not uncommon for women to have children by several different fathers and men may often be loosely attached to a number of households at the same time . |
26 | The RUC said its officers fired a number of shots at the gunmen . |
27 | The RUC said its officers fired a number of shots at the gunmen . |
28 | • Estimates of the number of journalists at the S-class release varied between 600 to 700 . |
29 | The research aims to look both at personal characteristics , such as age and sex , and also at company characteristics , such as the number of employees at the workplace . |
30 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |