Example sentences of "that [adv] [art] number of " in BNC.
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1 | But then this leads to the idea that perhaps a number of women do not enjoy being part of a couple and that a single woman in their midst acts like a demented lighthouse : enticing hapless travellers , by its safe and steady beam , on to the rocks below . |
2 | He was too racked by sobs to reply , but … the warder explained that whenever the number of prisoners in jail went up , the police were asked to bring in boys to help with the chores . |
3 | This is a model of the diffusion process that takes account of the observation that often a number of different interrelated technologies are being diffused simultaneously . |
4 | One would feel happier about the anthropic principle , at least in its weak version , if one could show that quite a number of different initial configurations for the universe would have evolved to produce a universe like the one we observe . |
5 | The Council suggested the need for independent ‘ unified ’ research to ascertain the size and scope of the heroin problem , as they feared that otherwise a number of ‘ in-house ’ research papers would be produced which would lack coordination and the necessary overview . |