Example sentences of "there [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 2 | A hall in the Andersonian University was procured , and meetings were held there for a number of years , with periods spent in Balfour 's School , North Portland Street ( 1848–1850 ) , the Young Men 's Christian Association , North Frederick Street ( 1857–8 ) . |
| 3 | They may be absolutely fine , and if you 're going there for a number of years , you 've probably got no er problem with them , but of course the smaller the organization the simpler is , it is for other erm factors to creep in . |
| 4 | the Boy Scouts can on there for a number of years , back to the fifties , there 've been excellent tenants of that piece of land . |
| 5 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 6 | He has convictions there for a number of theft and similar petty crime offences since leaving St Patrick 's . |