Example sentences of "number of [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most impressive was the number of retired people we met backpacking . |
| 2 | Judging by the number of young Germans I encountered , wanderlust has gone haywire . |
| 3 | ‘ There are any number of young girls you can marry if you wanted to — I mean properly , not as a farrago of the real thing . ’ |
| 4 | This needs to be incremented by the number of unused pages you are lacking , so in this example we need to add to our total global pages count , giving us a new required total of 4050 . |
| 5 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 6 | At the end of the day PR is a people business and you are only as successful as the number of good people you have . ’ |
| 7 | There are a number of practical things they can do , however : for a few hundred pounds , they can act as facilitators , helping their employees sort out their child-care problems . ’ |
| 8 | These places were all villages really , you got to know the neighbours , met people at parties and , given that you were a middle-class professional person , there was a limited number of like people it was possible to meet . |
| 9 | In a number of influential papers he has argued that people 's political alignments are closely connected to their relationships to the state . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if you have had a number of unsuccessful taxations it may be that your draftsman is being too optimistic , especially if payment is on the basis of a percentage of the costs as drawn — If you want to test out your costs draftsman , having received a bill back , send the file off to someone else and see how they draw it . |
| 11 | A firm going it alone will be restricted in the number of other firms it can approach without the news that it is looking to merge leaking out . |
| 12 | There are a large number of other methods we could examine . |
| 13 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , given the number of new products it has on the go , the company says that it is ploughing some 12% of its turnover back into research and development . |
| 15 | Independently of a great number of new Birds I succeeded in procuring the nests and eggs of at least two thirds of the species inhabiting that interesting region . |
| 16 | And just finally on the Mr are you able to put an approximate number , er figure to the number of such operations you 've been involved in ? |
| 17 | Er , it 's something like that er , is the word that two parts , two arguments to the string , there 's the number B four comma , and then a number for the number of decimal places you want in your label , so zero , so I get a label with three characters here one O two . |
| 18 | The language used seems significant : " Whatever number of unshaded squares you have to go round , limes the number by two and add six . " |
| 19 | Tenderness and a tingling sensation may be one of the first signs of pregnancy and there will be an increase in the number of superficial veins you can see . |
| 20 | Opinion polls show Labour back in the lead on course for a nine seat John Major unveils the Tories ’ 39 steps to education reform claiming they will achieve higher Roy Hattersley , on a visit to Darlington , pledged to give Durham 's Chief Constable the number of extra bobbies he Darlington Tory candidate Michael Fallon claimed a Newcastle-based regional assembly , as proposed by Labour , would harm the town . |
| 21 | Several years before inheriting he had been formulating his plans in which he brought together important features of a number of great buildings he had seen and admired . |
| 22 | The greater number of small companies you have , Branson reasoned , the greater number of people to whom you can give responsibility ; ‘ encouraging entrepreneurship ’ , as he put it , under the umbrella of Virgin . |
| 23 | But ICI reckons that in a number of key areas it has the edge over the competition . |
| 24 | It is a straight-down-the-middle view of the work , and given the number of rough edges I have to wonder whether it has anything more to offer than a dozen more successfully recorded alternatives . |
| 25 | These years will not count as part of your working life , and the number of qualifying years you need for a full pension will be reduced . |
| 26 | P.S. There 's no limit to the number of free films you can receive . |
| 27 | So um that kind of thing b according to Campbell may be one of the reasons why the Cleveland scandal was so scandalous was because it intersected with a number of cultural fears we have about the relationship between sexuality and the anus for some reason . |
| 28 | I 've got a feeling for the number of empty sites they must have hammered the rents or the rates or something . |
| 29 | Mention the word ‘ reincarnation ’ to any group of people and you will probably be astounded at the number of different reactions you will get . |
| 30 | The number of different visitors they were reported to have had during the last twelve months averaged 5.0 . |