Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 2 | While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux . |
| 3 | A number of scholars up to the present have held that Mozart intended no difference in meaning between the two symbols . |
| 4 | It so happens that the names Upehull , Upsall and Upshall occur in the records of one very small village — the first in a lay subsidy roll of 1327 , the second in a manorial court roll of November 1550 , and the third in a number of documents down to the latest twentieth-century electoral rolls . |
| 5 | Hitchens Quality Homes has developed a number of properties close to the golf club , ranging from two bedroom detached bungalows ( £159,500 ) to three bedroom three storey houses ( £169,950 ) . |
| 6 | Mr. Latham , for the plaintiff , submitted that it would be quite wrong to assume that the Act of 1976 has effectively satisfied the requirements of justice identified by Lamont J. He observed that our law of limitation leaves scope for a large number of claims still to be brought by plaintiffs born before 1976 . |
| 7 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |
| 8 | Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies . |
| 9 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 10 | Class 3 contributions are voluntary contributions paid by non-employed persons ; the usual reason they are paid is to bring the number of contributions up to a level to entitle the person to a benefit . |
| 11 | The fingerboard is plain , dot-free Indian rosewood , with a two-fret extension over the soundhole to bring the number of frets up to twenty-two ; The frets themselves are hard nickel silver , made in Holland — not the kind that will need replacing after a year or so . |
| 12 | ft. unit is the 175th branch to open in the country , bringing the total number of stores worldwide to 750 . |
| 13 | Bringing the WSR 's total number of stations back to ten , Britain 's longest preserved railway can now boast as many operating stations in Somerset as British Rail once again ! |
| 14 | Keep the number of witnesses down to five or six . |
| 15 | ‘ There are a number of hurdles still to be got over , and a number of issues to be negotiated between BAe and Raytheon . |