Example sentences of "have taken a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mick , who has taken a number of 20 lb pike from Essex waters this winter , travelled further afield from his Basildon home and fished a Predator Baits ' frozen mackerel on 11 lb line and two size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 2 | The second trend in current conservation thinking concerns the relationship between the programme and its clients or government and land-users , and has taken a number of different forms . |
| 3 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 4 | While making it easier for people to build up considerable capital assets , and to pass these on intact , the Government has taken a number of measures that have allowed many people to acquire capital assets for the first time . |
| 5 | The School has taken a number of steps to maintain these numbers by continual monitoring and updating the programmes it offers ; the Financial Studies degrees have recently been re-structured to make them more attractive to students wishing to enter the financial services industry ; Mathematics continues to expand the portfolio of the degree combination it offers . |
| 6 | The Scottish Office has taken a number of initiatives on homelessness , as the hon. Gentleman knows . |
| 7 | Therefore the Commission has taken a number of actions to attempt to minimise its occurrence . |
| 8 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 9 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 10 | We 've taken a number of factors into account one of which is the lower occupancy levels at Beaver Vale . |
| 11 | Such moves have taken a number of different forms : |
| 12 | Again these changes have been in response to legislation and have taken a number of forms . |
| 13 | The Government have taken a number of steps to promote the provision of affordable homes for exactly the people whom the hon. Gentleman mentions . |
| 14 | Since that point we have taken a number of steps to reduce students ' reliance on benefits . |