Example sentences of "get a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 2 | You 've got a limited number of slots to sell so you do n't need to go thrashing around the country |
| 3 | Well because if , if we got , if we say you 've got a certain number of members of staff , and each full time equivalent offers you two hundred and twenty two point eight working days a year . |
| 4 | I 've got a new number , twenty nine , and you 'll find that on the pale blue papers page number sixty five the first notice of I put number twenty nine to the general assembly is that approved ? |
| 5 | Well that 's one the other reason , of course we have got a large number of chur , very small churches in fact , looking at our mai , ministry figures nineteen ninety there were thirty churches that did n't pay anything to the maintenance and a lot of these , I think , maybe |
| 6 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 7 | And that was er duly inside , you 've got a fair number of spares on that . |
| 8 | You only get a limited number of chances . |
| 9 | We 'll take them out and throw them away and that 's all within the maker of the er , of the wings , er take them out , throw them away , er take the bumper off , throw that away , right , get a new number plate , a new bumper right cos the bumper 's got to come off anyway with the wings |
| 10 | For other people , who are already working , but get a certain number of weeks paid holiday a year , it 's a way of enjoying a change of scenery , becoming fit , and earning some extra money . |
| 11 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 12 | Where the skill comes really is when you get a large number of aircraft , and it 's using your aircraft the most efficient way you can in the shortest possible time , so you have n't got people hanging around wasting good fuel , you want them ideally plugged in and taking fuel . |
| 13 | The results of the [ 1922 ] General Election have brought forcibly before us the primary importance both of securing the votes of women electors and of getting a large number of women to take part in an electoral campaign . |
| 14 | A small party may get a substantial number of votes , but if they fall short of the quota it will not normally win a seat . |
| 15 | The disribution of votes would probably mean that any really appalling player from the 70s would get a similar number of votes to a pretty poor player from more recent years . |
| 16 | The Mayor , while not quantifying his optimism added , ‘ that there was no doubt they would get a large number of members from Reading and Maidenhead ’ . |
| 17 | Want to get a 900 number , where people can call and get a message , where I can talk with them . |
| 18 | The content of their syllabuses was largely , though indirectly , in the hands of the universities , through the local examination boards , and it was assumed that a good school , even if comprehensive , would manage to get a reasonable number of O and A level passes and send a proportion of its pupils on to higher education . |
| 19 | Do , however , try to get a certain number transcribed . |