Example sentences of "a number [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time warrants of arrest were issued for a number of former ministers and other Ershad associates . |
| 2 | Ershad and a number of former ministers were arrested on charges of corruption and abuse of power , and the transitional government on Dec. 14 announced that parliamentary elections would be held on March 2 , 1991 ( subsequently brought forward to Feb. 27 ) . |
| 3 | The move was widely regarded as a victory for reformers in the party , as the enlarged membership embraced members of the business community , intellectuals and a number of former dissidents . |
| 4 | The move was widely regarded as a victory for reformers in the party , as the enlarged membership embraced members of the business community , intellectuals and a number of former dissidents . |
| 5 | A police source said on March 15 that a list of some 200 " godfathers " had been drawn up , and that it included a number of former MPs and Cabinet ministers . |
| 6 | In the past few years , a number of former hospitals that were doomed to demolition have been successfully converted . |
| 7 | SAVE itself has prepared a number of such schemes for Billingsgate Market , the No 1 poultry site opposite the Bank of England and for Spitalfields Market , all in the City of London . |
| 8 | A number of such studies have shown that economic growth rates can not be explained completely by changes in capital and labour inputs . |
| 9 | An element in a number of such cases is a tendency to apply the tests more strictly when the application is made by the plaintiff , after he had selected the forum , especially where the application concerns his own evidence . |
| 10 | There are a number of such challenges , but the interesting and I think significant one comes from a group of Palaeontologists , of whom Stephen Gould , now of Eldridge , erm and Stephen Stanley are probably the best know . |
| 11 | The organisation having the contract is able to man up more successfully since it has its own , independent and higher salary levels and , by having a number of such contracts and also being involved in other ( development ) work for other clients , it can continue to offer its staff a sufficient variety of tasks . |
| 12 | A number of such cartels have been permitted , indeed promoted , by the EC authorities . |
| 13 | The issue had come to light following a break-in at the office of his solicitor ( one of a number of such incidents in recent months at premises connected with political parties or with individual politicians ) and the theft of a document on the affair . |
| 14 | Over the next few days , however , there were a number of such incidents and some of them did not end so happily . |
| 15 | De Chavigny now had a number of such projects — as tax deductions , he imagined . |
| 16 | In law , property may be held either by a natural person , or by a number of such persons , or by an incorporated body such as a company . |
| 17 | And I suggest that you made a number of such threats which constituted a sustained campaign of intimidation . |
| 18 | While a number of such problems can be treated successfully with deep-acting remedies or hypnotherapy , there are occasions when these can not reach deeply enough into the patient 's core . |
| 19 | A number of such experiments have been carried out , but none have yielded definite evidence of proton or neutron decay . |
| 20 | A number of such products have recently been introduced to the market to make this task as straightforward as possible . |
| 21 | Both I and my officials have had a number of such discussions with a variety of people . |
| 22 | After a number of such pairings a particular pattern of input will come to evoke a selected output pattern , without the ‘ output pattern generator ’ being activated . |
| 23 | Wyld also cites a number of such spellings in nasal environments that recapitulate Patterson 's Jenuary , exemine : they are Jenewary , axemyne ( 'examine' ) , exemynyde , Crenmer , Frencis . |
| 24 | If the makeup of the whole of a person 's being was represented by a frozen block of egg yolks and whites ( colour coded — dyed different colours ) then any other person wishing to investigate and make conscious or broadcast his feelings upon this being might have to take a sample or sliver through the block or might collect a number of such slivers , some from other people 's different angle scanning of that being , then I would suggest that the picture of flat slivers built up would in no way give the many complex proportions of shapes originally in the block . |
| 25 | Anatolia , particularly Kayseria , produces a number of such rugs , but the majority come from Pakistan and are marketed as Mori Bokhara or Jaldar Saphs . |
| 26 | Similar parts for the tre nobilissime giovani Dame ( or a similar group at Mantua ) were composed by a younger musician at the Mantuan court , Claudio Monteverdi , whose Terzo Libro de Madrigali ( 1592 ) includes a number of such pieces exploiting their various skills . |
| 27 | A scale of this kind would normally consist of a number of such statements . |
| 28 | Halzman caught sight of him in an overhead mirror — there were a number of such mirrors around , speaking as well as any other kind of sound was kept to a minimum in the sonar room — removed his earphones and gestured to the seat beside him . |
| 29 | There will be a number of such opportunities , whether they be among the commandos or the Marine commandos , or in the SAS , the new Royal Engineers Regiment — whose headquarters will be in Scotland — or the new Scottish Yeomanry Regiment which is to be set up . |
| 30 | Fortunately there are a number of such schools in London including American , Canadian , French , German , Dutch , Swedish , Spanish , Norwegian and Greek schools . |