Example sentences of "number of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
| 2 | While obvious omissions and errors led to a large number of entrants ' disqualification at an early stage , the judges found that , on the whole , standards of compliance with best practice had improved . |
| 3 | Besides them epigraphy records a number of oculists ' stamps from Bath , Kenchester ( two examples ) and Sandy , each bearing the name of the individual concerned alongside his patent remedies for treating opthalmic disorders . |
| 4 | While the information is correct as regards a growing number of employers ' occupational pension schemes , it does not apply to the basic State pension . |
| 5 | She was a governor of University College London , the London School of Medicine , and a number of girls ' schools . |
| 6 | It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day . |
| 7 | One harbours superior thoughts as to just where and in what circumstances her hosts can have possibly imagined her wearing such things , until one recalls that only seconds before one was counting the endless number of stoats ' tails that have gone into the making of the coronation robe . |
| 8 | A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities . |
| 9 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
| 10 | Further evidence of slackening efforts was the reduction in a number of countries ' energy efficiency budgets . |
| 11 | Both Italian writers commented particularly on the number of goldsmiths ' shops in the city ( 3 , pp.101–5 ; 25 , pp.51–2 ; 35 , pp.42–3 ) . |
| 12 | A small number of tenants ' co-operatives have been formed , but if Burrows is correct in his assertion that the scheme was ‘ structured around landlord applications ’ , then an unenthusiastic response from tenants is hardly surprising . |
| 13 | On the one hand , the average number of females ' friends who also used heroin was greater , at 2.8 out of 5 against 1.8 out of 5 in the known sample . |
| 14 | The continuing growth in the number of sub-contractors ' ’ lump ’ labour employed in the construction industry during the 1960s and early '70s was viewed with increasing concern and suspicion by government authorities , because of the widespread avoidance of payment of both income tax and national insurance contributions . |
| 15 | In 1859 , the number of winners ' medals had become too great to be attached to the silver arrow and the trophy was re-modelled in its present form , in which the original arrow is supported by a silver bow and crossed bolts , all standing on an ebony and silver plinth . |
| 16 | It is in alphabetical order and shows rooms allocated , name , number of nights ' stay , number of guests , estimated times of arrival and any special requirements . |
| 17 | In Appendix 1 a number of organisations ' relocation policies are reproduced and some cover eligibility and levels of relocation assistance given to recruits . |
| 18 | Employees may , for example , receive flat-rate payments , allowances based on a percentage of their salary , or a payment based on a number of weeks ' salary . |
| 19 | Fixed-term contracts vary widely in terms of the number of days ' leave given . |
| 20 | The law , which was the first in post-war Italy to restrict the right to strike , required public service employees to give a minimum number of days ' notice of intended strikes and to guarantee essential services . |
| 21 | In addition however the number of days ' holiday allowed of at weekends would be limited as follows : = |
| 22 | There are also a large number of bodies ' accounts which C. and A.G. audits by agreement with the body and the government department concerned . |
| 23 | Works attributed to him ( either by himself or by scribes ) include allegories in verse ( such as the Char d'Orgueil , or the Passion , in which Christ is a lover-knight who , wearing the arms of his squire Adam , fights Belial in order to rescue his beloved , Mankind ) , several poems on the Virgin Mary , a number of saints ' lives in verse , some lively sermons in verse , and the Plainte d'Amour , a powerful satire on corruption , which may well have been inspired by the Bull Exivi de paradiso ( 1312 ) . |
| 24 | Substitution of numbers for 52 per cent could do this for an words in formulae easy standing charge and number of units ' formula and 17 per cent for an electricity bill ( p.61 ) . |
| 25 | However , some passenger seat cushions and a significant number of passengers ' bodies were recovered and taken to Rhodes . |
| 26 | There is some suggestion that this site was the original French mill , and was a fulling mill , followed by a number of years ' service as a saw mill . |
| 27 | Rasmussen and Milner ( 1975 ) summarise data collected in their clinic over a number of years ' use of the Amytal test ( see Wada and Rasmussen , 1960 ; Branch , Milner and Rasmussen , 1964 ) . |
| 28 | Depending on the type of stock , as indicated below , stock which is in excess of the relevant number of years ' usage should be provided against as follows : |
| 29 | Secondly , he may provide for the premium to be decapitalised , either at a fixed number of years ' purchase or at the rate prevailing at the time of the subletting , with the amount thus calculated being added to the rent reserved by the sublease for the purposes of the rent review under the headlease . |
| 30 | The balance will give a datum or basic figure which will generally be turned into a lump sum by taking a certain number of years ' purchase . |