Example sentences of "and a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Gale has read carefully his primary sources and a surprising number of the secondary ones , and his thesis is well made out . |
| 2 | With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . " |
| 3 | Curtailed in his researches he may have been , but Gould still came away from the parched furnace of the scrubs with some of the rarest novelties yet of his collection and a vast number of specimens of every description . |
| 4 | That decline , when coupled with the abolition of Labour party strongholds in local government in London and the metropolitan counties , reduced employment in the nationalized industries and public sector ( down from 29.4 per cent of the workforce in 1979 to 26.9 per cent in 1985 ) and a lower number of trade unionists and council tenants , means that a future Labour government will start from a much weaker position in terms of promoting its traditional objectives of public ownership , trade union bargaining rights , and collectivism . |
| 5 | This may be difficult when the warren is very large and a corresponding number of purse nets is needed but when working on burrow systems , rather than on the much larger warrens , twenty nets are often sufficient . |
| 6 | There are 77 other local authorities playing the markets in a similar , though less extensive , way , and a similar number of financial institutions are involved . |
| 7 | An Observer/Harris poll in 1989 revealed the strength of the British voters attachment to their cars : ‘ Voters overwhelmingly backed the continued , untrammelled use of private cars , with 62 per cent disagreeing with further restrictions on their use and a similar number ( 63 per cent ) in favour of a heavy programme of road building . ’ |
| 8 | while most of the Nez Perce surrendered with Joseph , White Bird , with fourteen warriors and a similar number of women , escaped during the night . |
| 9 | A recent survey of domestic burglaries in Northern Ireland , showed that almost half of he victims had left a window open and a similar number had left a door open . |
| 10 | By 1930 over two thousand buses and a similar number of lorries plied the island 's roads . |
| 11 | Approximately half had organised or helped with playgroups and a similar number had previously worked as welfare assistants . |
| 12 | The Pacific Bell Inc arm of Pacific Telesis Group Inc plans to build a communications highway connecting participating California universities , research labs , major hospitals and leading high-tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles : to be known as the California Research and Education Network or CalRen , the project will use emerging communications switching and transmission technologies such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode in a network capable of carrying voice , data , video and images concurrently between as many as 80 educational , medical and high-tech industrial organisations in the San Francisco Bay Area , and a similar number in the Los Angeles area . |
| 13 | Thirty-five Old Master works will be on loan from the Met , and a similar number of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works will come from the National Gallery . |
| 14 | Thus , while virtually all schools wished to increase access to a better-stocked library in a way which would stimulate RBL , only 14 of the schools specified existing or intended extension activities in their plans , while nine made reference to the need to establish or develop display areas , and a similar number expressed a commitment to associated inservice developments . |
| 15 | Estimates range from several thousands to tens of thousands of thyroid cancers arising from the exposure to iodine-131 and a similar number of cancers elsewhere in the body from caesium-137 . |
| 16 | The FMLN in turn , following a meeting with the government on Aug. 21 , announced that 1,600 guerrillas would be demobilized on Sept. 21 , and a similar number on each of three subsequent dates before the end of October . |
| 17 | Briefly , over a 14 month period starting in May 1968 , 1400 general practitioners throughout the United Kingdom recruited 23000 women who were using oral contraceptives and a similar number of women who had never used these preparations . |
| 18 | And a similar number are already on sale at its 450 stores around the country . |
| 19 | However , many older people are not married and do not have children — and a small number outlive their children . |
| 20 | BA in-flight catering serves all long-haul and a small number of short-haul services from the UK , producing about 25,000 meals a day from Catering Centre South , where 1,200 people are employed . |
| 21 | Standing on the south bank and looking across the river at the village , one can see that it is still well-wooded with only the church spire and a small number of houses visible through the trees . |
| 22 | This can be done successfully , but requires a tank large enough to provide open habitat for the other fish ( as well as the rocks for the Mbuna ) and that the Mbuna do not outnumber the others — Mbuna are far more boisterous and a small number of Aulonacaras in a predominantly Mbuna tank tend to be scared all the time , even though rarely actually attacked . |
| 23 | A special classification has been placed on it and access forbidden to anyone except the Chief Constable and a small number of his most senior officers . |
| 24 | It was a great joy to get back to so many Burma people , government officers from almost all the departments , and a small number of Burmans , including Paw Tun , chairman of the Executive Council , Htun Aung Gyaw , the Finance Member , and three brilliant members of the Indian Civil Service from one family — Tin Tut , Kyaw Min and Kyaw Tha . |
| 25 | An alternative lighting plan for the village has been proposed by the Dedham Vale Society , involving a combination of private house lights and a small number of footway lamps . |
| 26 | The general occupational picture of black sportsmen 's parents is consistent with the rest of the first generation Caribbeans in the UK and as nearly all of them came from the West Indies ( mostly from Jamaica , but others from Dominica , Antigua , St Kitts , St Lucia , Montserrat and Guyana and fewer still from Trinidad , Nevis and Barbados and a small number from West Africa ) this is not unusual . |
| 27 | Get Ready ! teaches pupils to say and understand a basic English vocabulary and a small number of useful expressions . |
| 28 | However , Jenny explained that there were few feminists and a small number of women teachers who were involved in equal opportunities work , with the result that they were rarely treated seriously ( cf Joyce , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | The EC favoured further opening up of the customer equipment market ; a separation of the regulatory and operational functions of the telephone authority ; a more cost-oriented pricing of services ; the major network and a small number of basic services would remain the monopoly of the telecoms administration . |
| 30 | The health centre is staffed by Ms Mankuba Ramalepe , a nurse practitioner and a small number of nurses . |