Example sentences of "number of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past we have held a number of fund-raising events in the area . |
| 2 | The number of rail–served collieries in South Wales declined dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 3 | They are , in any case , based on a number of unproved assumptions about how people learn , about the instilling of habits as against the development of understanding which , if they were examined , would probably be found to have no foundation or utility . |
| 4 | Anthony Kasozi 's work as ACET 's Director in uganda has recently received financial support form Tear Fund which has enabled him , together with ACET General Manager , Maurice Adams , to identify a number of church-based projects for the coming year . |
| 5 | A number of respectable gentlemen in the town and neighbourhood of Manchester , being desirous that this plan shall include the whole of the township of Manchester and Salford , and as much of the adjoining townships , as will fall within that square , which will be formed from the extensions of the said two townships , Mr. Green hopes that this will be a sufficient apology for advancing the subscription to one guinea each copy . ’ |
| 6 | We calculated the ‘ prospective risk of stillbirth ’ at week N , a newly proposed statistic , as : ( number of stillbirths at or beyond gestational week N ) ( number of total births at or beyond gestational week N ) 1000 . |
| 7 | The average number of total thymocytes of these littermates was given the value of 100% , and the number of total thymocytes in individual mutant mice was converted into a percentage . |
| 8 | The number of DP thymocytes was calculated by multiplying the number of total thymocytes with the percentage of DP thymocytes . |
| 9 | The average number of total thymocytes of these littermates was given the value of 100% , and the number of total thymocytes in individual mutant mice was converted into a percentage . |
| 10 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
| 11 | There are a number of serious gaps between the educational needs of rural children and the existing provisions of formal educational systems . |
| 12 | There were , however , a number of serious problems with this approach and the assumptions behind it . |
| 13 | There were a number of serious bidders including some Japanese . |
| 14 | There had been a lull in activity after a number of serious setbacks in the city for the terrorist organisation . |
| 15 | The bridge has also been the scene of a number of serious accidents in recent years . |
| 16 | The bridge has also been the scene of a number of serious accidents in recent years . |
| 17 | Figure 4.1 summarises the total number of serious offences per 100,000 of the population for the period 1957 to 1977 , and shows a 290 per cent increase over those two decades . |
| 18 | There are a number of serious weaknesses with this approach , among them being the difficulty of establishing a correct connection between technical progress and growth , and the conservative assumptions made about the economic and social behaviour of the various parties involved in any technical change . |
| 19 | In the meantime , we will conclude by drawing attention to a number of serious weaknesses in the strategy on which it is based . |
| 20 | Figures yesterday also showed the number of industrial stoppages to be the lowest since 1929 , and the number of working days lost by industrial action — 800,000 in the year to the end of March — was the lowest since records began 100 years ago . |
| 21 | It may be significant that it is the only instance where pooling the data has a strengthening effect on the correlations , supporting the view that communication problems are at the root of a large number of industrial problems in all cultures . |
| 22 | The intention , however , as is clear from the document , is to cut back on the number of industrial conferences as that work is being swallowed up by the section conferences and as Robert in seconding the report made perfectly clear , industrial conferences , now called delegate conferences will only be held if there is a negotiating body for which the delegate conference has to frame policy , or in a number of other very limited situations . |
| 23 | They had a greater number of internal attributions for negative disaster related events . |
| 24 | He or she has a number of non-teaching hours for work with young people and their families after they leave school . |
| 25 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 26 | ‘ The sooner the better , otherwise he 'll be hearing any number of garbled stories about disafforestation from others . |
| 27 | Between the evening of Friday 6 March and Sunday 8 March a thief stole a number of Near-Eastern items of the ninth to second centuries BC from the Draper 's Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum . |
| 28 | Tesco will offer its highest number of multi-save items along the lines of ‘ buy two , get one free ’ . |
| 29 | It has a strong emphasis on specific objectives ( related to a number of vocational choices to be made by the students themselves ) , to cross-curricular skills and to profile-reporting on progress . |
| 30 | Confirmation is found in the increase of coarser sands and number of conglomeratic intervals towards the south within the alluvial fans . |