Example sentences of "and [verb] a large number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee reported early in 1975 , and made a large number of recommendations , some endorsing the Diplock Commission and the Act , others being critical and proposing amendments to the law . |
| 2 | 100 should be sufficient enough for most processes ; you would need to be using the SPR/SSR system very heavily and producing a large number of listings to exceed 100 simultaneous requests . |
| 3 | At a time when many authentic works were being rediscovered and marketed , Joni conceived and painted a large number of fragmentary works . |
| 4 | A spokesman for Vale of Glamorgan council said : ‘ The Chief Executive holds a very important post and has a large number of meetings . |
| 5 | Together they designed and supervised a large number of contracts , including the Wye Valley Railway , the Guernsey Tramway , the Cardiff and Penarth Tramway , the East Worcestershire Waterworks , and Totland Bay pier , as well as acting as engineers to the West Bromwich sanitary commissioners . |
| 6 | By collecting and analysing a large number of observations it is possible to deduce the average value of time savings to people with particular characteristics making particular types of journey . |
| 7 | Stored at Wroughton , on July 11 the following year , the airframe was struck off charge and joined a large number of Lancs that were pounced upon by scrapmen eager to turn them into saucepans . |
| 8 | The World Health Organisation has begun a programme to synthesise and test a large number of steroid derivatives . |
| 9 | We pride ourselves on having secured excellent , often especially upgraded , inflight services for our customers and offer a large number of Saturday departures . |
| 10 | Ranging over ten years and introducing a large number of characters , it managed to remain gripping , coherent , a lavish explication of family loyalties and obligation . |
| 11 | In it , he surveyed and criticised a large number of attempts to reconstruct ‘ the real Jesus ’ , from Reimarus ' Fragments , published by Lessing in the 1770s , to William Wrede 's Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien ( ‘ The Messianic Secret in the Gospels ’ ) of 1901 . |