Example sentences of "out a [adj] number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project unites a joint team of British and French economists and lawyers from the Universities of Sussex and Grenoble to review the existing evidence in a dispassionate collaborative manner to try to develop a common view and to carry out a limited number of new investigations in areas of particular sensitivity . |
| 2 | Its critics claim that any assessment based on arbitrary demographic characteristics rules out a substantial number of people who would have been accepted on the basis of their individual performance , and is therefore unfair to them . |
| 3 | The Girls and Mathematics Unit has carried out a substantial number of project on girls ' classroom performance in Mathematics , spanning nursery to secondary schools . |
| 4 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 5 | There also must be people backing them up , and AIDS has wiped out a vast number of support staff ’ . |
| 6 | The latter will carry out a small number of random spot checks to verify a company 's samples . |
| 7 | Sending out a sufficient number of Bracewell-style probes would be prohibitively expensive . |
| 8 | But it is evident that publishers , to stay in business , need to bring out a large number of titles every year . |
| 9 | They had carried out a large number of ferrying and bridging operations , in addition to the more usual Engineer jobs of demolitions and dry bridging using the Medium Girder Bridge . |
| 10 | The FDIC was already weak from helping to bail out a large number of savings and loan institutions ( the so-called " thrifts " ) , some of which had lost large sums through misguided speculation or outright corruption [ see p. 36843 ; 37412 ] . |
| 11 | The Rev Bryan Faussett carried out a considerable number of excavations in east Kent between the years 1757 and 1777 , amassing a total of over 700 graves . |