Example sentences of "that [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is known that for a number of avionic items removed there are a varying number of components which are subsequently diagnosed as ‘ no fault found ’ . |
| 2 | On the one hand , the antisemitism of ‘ anti-immigrant ’ fascist parties might be seen as an anachronism , arising from the fact that for a number of years such parties were led by a generation who were raised in conditions of widespread antisemitism . |
| 3 | That must be extremely dubious , considering that for a number of years the payments were made under protest . |
| 4 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 5 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 6 | It may therefore be that , if a technique were ever found to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design , it might reveal that in a number of cases such innovation had net costs , to management , rather than net benefits . |
| 7 | Having withdrawn the original proposal to tax in-house benefits on the open market price charged to the public , the Financial Secretary gave assurance that in a number of specific cases benefits would continue to be taxed as before , and in the specific case of school teachers paying concessionary school fees , the charge would be nil or very small . |
| 8 | The preceding discussions have established that in a number of cases , some kind of lexicon search by general information about words would be useful to correct any detected errors within the script recognition system . |
| 9 | We also know that in a number of countries labour disputes are brought before so called ‘ Labour Courts ’ for resolution . |
| 10 | The Council effectively recognized that in a number of important matters Protestants had been right and Catholics wrong . |
| 11 | Although evidence is accumulating that in a number of birds females prefer long-tailed mates , the role of natural selection in tail elaboration has been largely ignored . |
| 12 | It seems clear that in a number of places the word for professional soldier has been misunderstood as meaning " thousand " . |
| 13 | Phizacklea and Miles show some sensitivity to the contradictory nature of working-class consciousness and emphasize that in a number of workers high levels of class consciousness nevertheless coexisted with considerable hostility towards local blacks . |
| 14 | However , he also points out that in a number of important companies a single family of entrepreneurial capitalists retain a majority of the shares . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) The authorities show that in a number of situations the ex turpi causa defence will prima facie succeed . |
| 16 | It is clear that in a number of sectors concentration is significantly higher than in the economy generally . |
| 17 | It is reported that in a number of countries that are regionally , culturally and socio-economically heterogeneous , malnutrition has been found to be more common among children born after short than after long intervals ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) . |
| 18 | But the most important and interesting aspect of its role in the book is the way in which Proust 's narrative is shown to deviate from the model : Genette shows that in a number of ways A la recherche breaks and challenges the laws of narrative proposed by the abstract model but without undercutting their general validity . |
| 19 | Statistics for average turn-length alone are liable to mislead , however , and what is likely to be more immediately conspicuous to the reader , is that in a number of scenes Anderson has by far the longest turn : in both scene one and three , for example , Anderson produces turns of over 100 words . |
| 20 | But ICI reckons that in a number of key areas it has the edge over the competition . |
| 21 | Now the response , what they have done is they 've had a look , we have looked briefly at some of the aspects , overall aspects and you 'll find that in a number of these things , Oxford City Council is already quite heavily involved . |
| 22 | But it was clear , and is clearer still in retrospect , that on a number of occasions an old decorum had been deferred to , or embraced . |
| 23 | Griffin ( 1984 ) suggests that on a number of issues , such as its concern with safety matters , the NMIU can not be associated with the American ‘ bosses ’ unions ' , but its basic policies were repugnant to many other trade unionists , including the majority in the MFGB . |
| 24 | And the other interesting point to note is that over a number of years — over 5 or 6 years — all categories are consistently running at 90% occupancy . |