Example sentences of "many [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second stage is to use this figure ( of so many dies in a sample of so many coins ) to calculate the total likely number of dies which were originally made . |
| 2 | A pony will often find a ‘ fifth leg ’ when a big horse will fall flat on his nose , and although you do n't see any small ponies at the top in eventing , many riders like a bit of pony blood in their eventers ‘ to help them think more quickly ’ . |
| 3 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 4 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 5 | The entity-type hyper-medium is in a 1 N relationship with pathitem indicating that each hyper-medium object can appear many times as a path item but that each path item refers to only one hyper-medium object . |
| 6 | Later , ashamed , Two-Dogs would picket screenings of the films he had appeared in , although he admitted in private that many times as a young man he had eaten well at a movie commissary when he would otherwise have starved . |
| 7 | Derry is no stranger to Inchcolm , having visited the island many times as a boy . |
| 8 | The masterpiece of the monastery was the centrally placed Cathedral of the Assumption , built in the late twelfth century and , due to its fine proportions and construction , used many times as a model to later churches . |
| 9 | How many times during a day do we actually get through to the person we need to speak to ? |
| 10 | How many times on a visit to families in the neighbourhood , before being offered a cup of tea , had we been taken around a house — ‘ The grand tour again , ’ sighed Dad — to admire knocked-through rooms , cunning cupboards and bunkbeds , showers , coal bunkers and greenhouses . |
| 11 | However , in a sediment with a large proportion of lithic clasts this may involve changing many times to a different magnification ( generally larger , to identify the whole clast ) . |
| 12 | This means that the chain must be folded many times like a concertina to be accommodated in the crystal . |
| 13 | You will need to restring your racket as many times in a year as you play in a week . |
| 14 | Ample opportunities for many activities plus a varied programme of guided walks and events . |
| 15 | In fact , transport of materials around Coniston was quite well organised , with many roads in a fair state for the times . |
| 16 | Pete 's cooking was obviously the result of many hours over a hot Trangia . |
| 17 | " How many hours in a week ? " |
| 18 | I abridge the tale here , there being only so many hours in a day . |
| 19 | It must be wondered whether Eubank is jaded through having so many fights at a high level in such a short time . |
| 20 | Fault Diagnosis/Isolation : Aircraft have become ever more sophisticated , integrating many technologies within a single airframe . |
| 21 | Participant observation is employed in many cases as a complementary method . |
| 22 | At the same time , in much of the Western world there was a growth of social democracy through an extension of the civil , political and social rights of citizens , and their more effective implementation in many cases as a result of the campaigns of civil rights movements . |
| 23 | 5.3 There are two further reasons for not accepting any sort of identification between adverbal adjectives and predicate qualifiers , apart from the indications given by ambiguity , and by the fact that they correspond to different types of question , and by the intuitively close relationship which is found in many cases between a verb + adverbal adjective pair and a single lexical verb . |
| 24 | This encapsulation of the locals in their own village has also been reinforced in many cases by a physical separation of the two sections of the community . |
| 25 | Then , on average , if an individual fights many contests in a lifetime , a dove wins W÷2 from its fights with other doves . |
| 26 | In passing the NZRFU are evidently planning to overhaul their media relations systems — with Mains as a central figure — and one plan is to invite the media in their many forms to a cocktail party next month , and have the All Blacks there as waiters and drinks-carriers . |
| 27 | The design team may have many forms from a single individual working alone to a broadly based curriculum development team with specialists in curriculum design , graphics , programming and observation ; however , for our purpose it is useful to emphasize three roles — the curriculum designer who has overall responsibility for the program teaching unit and its associated written or audio-visual material , the program designer who realizes the computer program and the teacher developers in whose classrooms the material is tried and tuned . |
| 28 | Indeed , successful labour organisation could have been more firmly based on unions which each combined many skills within a single industry , rather than of related functions in a wide range of businesses . |
| 29 | Rather like that game where you had to memorise so many objects on a tray . |
| 30 | American Ed Webster , one of the Buxton speakers , said a few days after visiting the Roaches that he had never seen so many climbers at a cliff . |