Example sentences of "for a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had asked for a greater number of " peacekeeping forces " to be sent , although Sahnoun on Aug. 12 was to emphasize that the proposed deployment was not to be regarded as a peacekeeping operation , but was to protect food distribution . |
| 2 | But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so . |
| 3 | But that it does satisfy a need for a vast number of , of people who may be rather younger and poorer than er we who sit here . |
| 4 | The Thatcher Years have been splendid ones for a goodly number of golf members throughout this Royal and Ancient land of ours . |
| 5 | Table 8.2 reproduces this information for a selected number of tasks concerned with mobility , personal care and housecare activities . |
| 6 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 7 | repetition of a closed loop containing a series of instructions for a fixed number of values in an arithmetic sequence |
| 8 | In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations . |
| 9 | For a fixed number of traders , they derived the result that the covariance of squared daily price changes and daily volume is a positive function of the variance of the directing or mixing variable , and this relationship is expected to have a heteroscedastic disturbance term . |
| 10 | Other assets , such as government bonds — i.e. loans to government for a fixed number of years — are somewhere in the middle . |
| 11 | All of these elements had to compete for a limited number of unfilled vacancies in Mendeleev 's Periodic Table , like contestants in a game of cosmic musical chairs . |
| 12 | Inner London bureaux are normally staffed by a small team of paid advice workers with perhaps one or two volunteers , opening for a limited number of hours to the public , whereas outer London bureaux are staffed largely by volunteers and are open for longer hours . |
| 13 | The reality is that there are few harsher selection processes than the PGA European Tour 's and the reason is , of course , the high demand for a limited number of places . |
| 14 | This can be taken to mean that the work has already been printed for a limited number of people by private gift or circulation , but has not been published in the sense that it has been offered to the general public . |
| 15 | Mergers are generally viewed favourably , except for a limited number deemed to be ‘ against the public interest ’ . |
| 16 | On top of all that the National Railway Museum has agreed that the T9 can be steamed for a limited number of occasions until May next year . |
| 17 | There is a wonderful opportunity for a limited number of ( loud and enthusiastic ) Amnesty members and supporters to be part of the audiences for The Big Three-O and there is only one catch — you have to wear a fancy dress costume reflecting the fashions of either the 60s , 70s or 80s . |
| 18 | These ten programs contend for a limited number of real and symbolic resources . |
| 19 | It was , again , an unsatisfactory solution , and Freud began to see that these earlier conceptualizations could only be used for a limited number of problems which arose in psychoanalysis , and that a new , more fundamental conceptualization was required . |
| 20 | In my judgment it was open to the committee to decide the appeal on the grounds that , there being over-subscription which would prejudice efficient education if all were admitted , to uphold the reasonable criteria for selection between all the applicants for a limited number of places is prima facie a fair and just way to determine the appeal . |
| 21 | Some Eastern European countries — the USSR , for example — have attempted to deal with this problem by directing professional staff to work in certain areas for a limited number of years , as well as providing them with incentives in terms of higher salaries , pension rights , housing , etc . |
| 22 | For the age range 14 and under 17 , prosecution is only possible for a limited number of offences on the authority of a magistrate , and the extended care , protection and control procedure is used in most cases . |
| 23 | Pictures are obvious examples of iconic signs ; individual words , on the other hand , are generally symbolic signs , except for a limited number of cases such as those of onomatopoeia . |
| 24 | The assay system is based on the competition between unlabelled platelet activating factor and a fixed quantity of [ H ] labelled platelet activating factor for a limited number of binding sites on a platelet activating factor specific antibody . |
| 25 | An SPR may only be ‘ passed on ’ in this manner for a limited number of times . |
| 26 | We are also offering group music lessons for a limited number of people . |
| 27 | We will once again be offering two piano improvisation courses for a limited number of people , meeting on each QT day throughout the year . |
| 28 | Paraphimosis is rare in children and unlikely to account for a substantial number of circumcisions . |
| 29 | Sharing a home with relatives ( other than parents ) before marriage is another phenomenon which was more common in the past than in the present ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ) Very little is known about circumstances under which young people now may go to live with a non-parental relative , although Gill Jones ( 1987 ) has shown that it still happens for a substantial number , especially those designated as working class on occupational criteria . |
| 30 | In practice , it would be better to test for a negative number before using SQR rather than trap the " — ve root " error . |