Example sentences of "has a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each table has a specific number of columns or attributes and any number of unordered rows or records . |
| 2 | Every new subject which emerges in the literature and has a reasonable number of documents associated with it must be added to the list in the enumerative scheme . |
| 3 | For a horse who has a fairly relaxed outlook on life , Milton has a surprising number of phobias . |
| 4 | This has a surprising number of advantages , beyond the obvious saving of paper , though there are disadvantages too . |
| 5 | Dinner costs £35 per person , and as a special offer the hotel has a limited number of bedrooms for £45 per person on November 26 . |
| 6 | Great opportunity to pass on genes effortlessly , though the female has a limited number of eggs which has specific requirements for survival and therefore temporar temporarily stalls her reproductive success . |
| 7 | The College has a limited number of bursaries . |
| 8 | Militant runs its own newspaper , has a substantial number of full-time employees and its financial basis is mysterious . |
| 9 | That yard , privatised and sold to a new owner and with access to the intervention fund , now has a substantial number of new orders . |
| 10 | The University has a substantial number of self-contained furnished flats for letting to small groups of students . |
| 11 | And the reason for this is that usually the male has a vast number of sex cells and consequently can afford to compete er for er female cells to fertilize . |
| 12 | After the hearing a company spokesman said : ‘ Kwik Save has a vast number of stores throughout the country and we do take this area very seriously . |
| 13 | In moving into family work the social worker has a complex number of responsibilities to balance : |
| 14 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 15 | I suppose it is a spectator sport of a sort but from the operator 's viewpoint the presence of uninitiated onlookers has a great number of debit points . |
| 16 | It seems a more unlikely plant than most to be a herb , but the whole of it , leaves , stems etc. , consist of about 30 per cent mucilage , and this has a great number of medicinal applications , known for many centuries . |
| 17 | Scot land has a great number of constituencies allocated to it than its population strictly allows , and the same exception applies to Wales . |
| 18 | 3 Make sure that the organisation has a small number of executives trained to speak on subjects which are likely to come up and that there is at least one board member who can represent the company in times of serious criticism or comment . |
| 19 | The park has a small number of wild rabbits , but Mr Weston said these were certainly not from that population . |
| 20 | My Lords , I do n't think co-option is satisfactory under these circumstances er I think my erm th the Noble Lord has a good route er has a good number but a bad route and that my Noble Friend is in the position to propose a good route er if he will get the right number . |
| 21 | Each er assignment has a unique number . |
| 22 | Representative oh well there you go , consultant number every assignment has a unique number . |
| 23 | Andrew might also consider it a useful opportunity to further his England captaincy claims , for which he has a growing number of supporters — although he expresses no such wish , since his old school-mate , Will Carling , currently holds the job . |
| 24 | The most striking feature of the rotor is that it has a different number of teeth to the stator ; the example of Fig.1.5 has four rotor teeth . |
| 25 | Within the area of segmental phonology the most obvious type of difference is where one accent has a different number of phonemes ( and hence of phonemic contrasts ) from another . |
| 26 | In ivory , black or petrol green , this stylish phone is Mercury compatible and has a ten- number memory , automatic security-coded line access , paging facility and battery back-up . |
| 27 | Of course he has a fair number of mares , which makes a great difference . |
| 28 | A typical andesite is light grey in colour , contains about 60 per cent of silica ( silicon dioxide ) and has a conspicuous number of small white crystals , a few millimetres across , scattered throughout a fine-grained homogeneous matrix . |
| 29 | YOUNG Jason Ennis is a superb illustrator and one who has a considerable number of strings to his artistic bow . |
| 30 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |