Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |
| 2 | In a violent backlash a number of journalists , including a British photographer , were killed by rampaging mobs . |
| 3 | In a violent backlash a number of journalists including a British photographer were killed by rampaging mobs . |
| 4 | In a violent backlash a number of journalists , including a British photographer , were killed by rampaging mobs . |
| 5 | This chapter has examined from a comparative standpoint a number of important characteristics of trade unions , mainly in relation to industrialised , market-type economies . |
| 6 | It is envisaged that in a practical system a number of sub-domains may be declared with a component during its design , each monitoring differing aspects or regions of the model . |
| 7 | In sections 4.8–4.12 a further set of qualifying concepts is presented which will help to identify in a systematic way a number of near relations of , and approximations to , more basic paradigmatic relations . |
| 8 | There was a big announcement a number of months ago in Derry where a political party said on the headlines of the news about creating 200 jobs in Derry . |
| 9 | This brought together in a simplified form a number of remedies obtainable from a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division consisting of two or three judges . |