I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/smash/number 1 etc hit
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the Beatles’ greatest hits
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Which band had a hit with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’?
a card number
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What's your card number?
a combination/variety/number of factors
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A combination of factors led to the closure of the factory.
a four/five/six etc figure number (= a number in the thousands/ten thousands/hundred thousands etc )
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Choose a four figure number that you can easily remember.
A growing number
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A growing number of people are taking part-time jobs.
a number of occasions
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The crowd interrupted her speech on a number of occasions.
a phone number
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Can I have your phone number?
a random number
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Pick a random number.
a record number/level/time etc
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Pollution in the lake has reached record levels.
a rise in the number of sth
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There has been a rise in the number of arrests for drug offences.
an equal number/amount
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Both candidates received an equal number of votes.
an infinite number/variety of sth
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There was an infinite variety of drinks to choose from.
An unknown number of
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An unknown number of people were killed.
atomic number
be equal in number/numbers
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In higher education, women are equal in numbers to men.
be equal in number/numbers
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In higher education, women are equal in numbers to men.
be ranked fourth/number one etc
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Agassi was at that time ranked sixth in the world.
box number
cardinal number
considerable amount/number etc of sth
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We’ve saved a considerable amount of money.
cushy number (= an easy job or life )
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a very cushy number
daytime telephone number (= the number of the telephone you use during the day )
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Can I take your daytime telephone number ?
double in size/number/value etc
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Within two years the company had doubled in size.
double the amount/number/size etc
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We’ll need double this amount for eight people.
double the size/number/amount etc (of sth)
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A promise was given to double the number of police on duty.
E number
extension number
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Do you know Mr Brown’s extension number ?
home address/number (= the address or telephone number of your house )
ICE number
insignificant number/amount
large number
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A large number of students have signed up for the course.
limited number/amount/time etc
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There are only a limited number of tickets available.
look out for yourself/number one (= think only of the advantages you can get for yourself )
maximum amount/number etc
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Work out the maximum amount you can afford to spend.
number 1/5/15 etc in the charts
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In 1962 'Love Me Do' reached only number 17 in the charts.
number cruncher
number crunching
number one
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The University of Maine has the number one hockey team in the country.
number one
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Until his marriage, his job was number one in his life.
number plate
Number Ten
number two
number/license/registration plate (= on a car )
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Did anyone see the car’s license plate?
ordinal number
personal identification number
prime number
production number
registration number
sb’s number one fan
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She told Dave that she was his number one fan.
serial number
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Each computer has a serial number on it.
sizeable amount/number
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a sizeable amount of money
small number
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Only a relatively small number of people were affected.
swell the ranks/numbers of sth (= increase the number of people in a particular situation )
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Large numbers of refugees have swollen the ranks of the unemployed.
telephone number
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What’s your telephone number?
the exact amount/number/figure
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I don’t know the exact amount, but it was a lot.
the flight number
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Write the flight number on all your luggage labels.
the number one suspect (= the main suspect )
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I was the one who found her. And that makes me the number one suspect for her murder.
the top/main/number one priority
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Controlling spending is his top priority.
three-digit/four-digit etc number
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4305 is a four-digit number.
twice the size/number/rate/amount etc
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an area twice the size of Britain
unlimited number
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The system can support an unlimited number of users.
vast amounts/numbers/quantities/sums etc (of sth)
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The government will have to borrow vast amounts of money.
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The refugees come across the border in vast numbers .
whole number
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
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There are thus a considerable number who appear in the autobiographies as simple vignettes.
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A review of several estimates of natural gas available between 1980 and 2000 reveals a considerable range of numbers and opinions.
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Besides such large and expensive works, Stanton produced a considerable number of relatively simple mural tablets, in a distinctive style.
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And a considerable number of economists, though not always in full knowledge of the implications, have conceded the point.
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There are a considerable number of provisions which the taxpayer must carefully take into account when setting up an overseas trust.
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While a considerable number of the best people stayed on, many also left.
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There will often be a considerable number of courses of action which the system itself will not be able to choose between.
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A private company differs from a public company in a considerable number of ways.
equal
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For example, the customer might ask to be given equal numbers of 5p and 20p coins for use in a vending machine.
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Jinnah had an equal number of meetings with Mountbatten in the same period.
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The classes contain approximately equal numbers of members.
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One hundred fifty years after the event equal numbers of people might each choose one of the above descriptions.
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Foster's office bookcase contains about equal numbers of books on chemistry and on accountancy.
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Tracey made a tree with an equal number of rods protruding from each side and all of the same size.
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A new civilian police force has been created, with equal numbers of ex-soldiers and ex-guerrillas in its ranks.
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While a few felt that the social workers, were helpful and supportive an equal number considered them to be patronizing and authoritarian.
great
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It now covered a greater geographical area and involved a greater number of powerful States than ever before.
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We are in favor of abortion rights and reproductive freedom in greater numbers than men.
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To remove such a sacred mound would cause much distress to a great number of people.
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Obviously, Camby had great numbers , but how about Edgar Padilla?
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The strategy of continuing to exclude women from the union did not prevent their recruitment in ever greater numbers by the employers.
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The countryside has been buried under layers of concrete to facilitate its movement in ever greater numbers .
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And so ostensibly are the greatest cardinal number and the abominable snowman.
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Take the familiar mathematical example of the greatest cardinal number .
growing
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The old bill might be straight in Leyton but there are growing numbers who smoke weed and support calls for legalisation.
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A new report says growing numbers of tenants are facing illegal evictions or even threats of violence.
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Teachers were leaving the profession in growing numbers because of poor pay and conditions, especially in country areas.
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But it is a few rich people who are responsible for this, not the growing numbers of the poor.
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The first is the threat which a growing number of them see to the strength and stability of their currency.
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A growing number of black intellectuals, and white politicians, disagree.
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Another service attracting a growing number of subscribers is Commercial Payment Profile.
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We, like our growing number of thinking Ulsterfolk, envisage no future under Westminster dictatorship.
high
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Willesden County Court, has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country.
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The high number of craters suggest Mathilde has been taking hits for several billion years.
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We found a much higher number of HAPCs in children than previously reported in adults.
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Because demand is so high , the number of listings is at a historic low, too.
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Speyside had by far the highest number of farmers requesting the courses themselves - three out of every four.
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The company said job losses are likely to be minimal because of the high number of jobs currently open at Home Savings.
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He gave warning that the higher the number of small authorities set up, the more the cost would increase.
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Franken also avoided military service with student deferments while at Harvard and, ultimately, a high lottery number .
increasing
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In an increasing number of countries, use of seat belts in cars is now obligatory.
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The involvement of an increasing number of staff in financial planning is another interesting area.
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It is sold at the monuments, tourist information centres and through an increasing number of travel trade operators.
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These nouveau-riches elites were getting worried about the increasing numbers of poor families camped outside their large houses.
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An increasing number of studies using faeces as a sample source have been published recently.
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An increasing number of calls come from people looking for start-up premises for small businesses.
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An increasing number of builders now offer a service of drawing and submitting plans, although an architect may be more creative.
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Many women are teachers and there is an increasing number of women politicians, accountants, lawyers, doctors.
large
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Thus for large numbers of older workers, poverty is experienced to the official pension ages.
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Inclusion of large numbers of very old elderly in the study population will produce the opposite effect.
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However, warmth and moisture favour development and allow the accumulation of large numbers of infective stages.
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The tale of Gormenghast requires a large number of refractory animals, few of them capable of taking direction.
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After all, the Minister is surrounded by a large number of them on the Conservative Benches.
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Spread over 112,000 acres, the Sterkfontein and associated sites contain the largest number of fossils found anywhere in the world.
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A falling birth-rate is brought about by a large number of changes in society.
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But large numbers of people set a value by this differential service, by no means restricted to those one could regard as rich.
limited
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The faculty receives a very large number of applications for the limited number of places available.
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These ten programs contend for a limited number of real and symbolic resources.
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There is a limited number of places available for our workshop.
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Active volcanism at any one time is normally confined to a limited number of centres within a particular cluster.
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The research will be conducted by means of a limited number of case studies and will include analysis at three levels.
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They suggest that peculiar factors may account for the high levels recorded on a limited number of ground-based instruments.
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A limited number of these vouchers were issued each year.
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It is only a limited number of pensioners who at present enjoy substantial occupational pensions.
maximum
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For the unfit individual, three times per week should be the maximum number of exercise sessions.
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It requires each clinic to have a written policy stating a maximum number of pregnancies per donor.
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This was done by giving subjects a maximum number of accidents which their estimates could not exceed.
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The maximum number of persons working on the site of the establishment and particularly of those persons exposed to hazard 3.
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The maximum number of rattles observed is 20.
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Action: The maximum number of modules in one package is 30.
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What is the maximum number of diners which will have to be accommodated at a sit-down meal?
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Finding the maximum number of customers a bank can serve is mind-numbingly complicated.
opposite
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He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror.
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Aki Hill is there, her opposite number at rival school Oregon State.
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So does his opposite number in the Senate, Bennett Johnston of Louisiana.
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Finding an opposite number is not always easy.
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My opposite numbers , you understand.
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His opposite number , Clive Lloyd, had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy.
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It has its opposite number which is opposed to its life-giving properties.
serial
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Training returns, ammo expenditure, equipment serial number , vehicle mileage - all have to be documented.
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They traced the serial numbers and found he had probably killed a military policeman.
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The number before each name is the serial number of each claim, and amounts are those due to each creditor.
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They arrested me for having a gun with an altered serial number on it.
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This register lists them by serial number , price, type of lathe, date sold and to whom.
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Each player attempts to fool the others about the serial numbers printed on the face of his dollar bill.
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Then, and only then, do the players reveal their serial numbers and determine who is bluffing whom.
significant
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Where a significant number of individuals share a colour that deviates from the species norm, we term it a colour morph.
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Morgenson said the letter went out to hundreds of potential supporters and has yielded a significant number of donations.
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In recent times, anthropologists have noted that Inuit had almost universally perfect eyesight until significant numbers of them became literate.
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Politicians have perceived little gain in granting petitions for something that offends the sensibilities of a significant number of the heterosexual majority.
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Macmillan was fortunate to have been granted a significant number of share options in his employer.
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But three other regulars also missed a significant number of games.
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However, some passenger seat cushions and a significant number of passengers' bodies were recovered and taken to Rhodes.
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Korda lacked the resources to lure away a significant number of Rank's key directors.
small
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Postgraduate Teaching Awards A small number of teaching assistantships and teaching supplements are available annually in some Faculties.
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A small number of new initiatives were launched.
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This latter point is not easily achieved, especially when questionnaires are used with small numbers .
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They did, in fact, take in a small number of elderly people.
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He has a scheme to take over a small number of simple churches and adapt them as retreats.
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This research aims to investigate, in detail, activity in a small number of committees which vary in operation and intentions.
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These large gametes will inevitably be produced in smaller numbers and they will lack mobility.
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Only a small number of men accompanied him into the forest.
total
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Multiply the number of widths by the number of pattern repeats per drop to give the total number of pattern repeats required.
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So the total number of dinners on the island is 200, eaten in the comfort of 90 huts.
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The total number of cells and of labelled cells within a randomly selected field of view were counted.
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The total number of adults diagnosed with diabetes in California is estimated to be 1,393,105.
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Multiply the total number of pattern repeats by the size of the repeat to give your total fabric requirement.
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The latest redundancies bring the total number of job losses at the factory to thirteen hundred, in less than three years.
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This combined number of fewer than 300 audit firms represents less than 3% of the total number registered.
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The total number of academic staff has risen from 284 in 1987/88 to 348 in 1991/92.
vast
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Has not the experiment proved a disaster for vast numbers of national health service patients?
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Hospitals save a vast number of lives and prevent a vast amount of pain.
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There is obviously a vast number of such possible trajectories.
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Molly often stayed in her office late into the night, responding by hand to the vast numbers of letters we received.
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The South West Region plays host to a vast number of divers all over the country.
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Endemic diseases carried away additional vast numbers of people.
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After commissions were cut at Harvard, a vast number of Harvard dealers joined the search.
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There are a vast number of medicines used to treat troubled sleep, aching joints, headaches and other symptoms.
■ NOUN
phone
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He kissed her and pressed a list of phone numbers and dates and times into her hand.
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Call the phone number on the correspondence and explain clearly why you do not owe the tax.
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She knew their hotel's phone number .
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We cleaned up with Kleenexes, exchanged phone numbers .
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Most entertainers give out cards with their own or the agency's phone number on it.
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Give a phone number if at all possible.
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Customers must provide only their name, address and phone number to be eligible.
telephone
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For further details about transitional relief ask your charging authority - the address and telephone number are included with this bill.
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Rambam printed business cards carrying a working telephone number complete with voice mail.
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I have omitted the address and telephone number Take an imperial sheet of cartridge paper and a small roll of gummed tape.
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Selective blocking allows the telephone number to appear on all calls unless customers enter 67 before dialing.
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This feature enables both halves of postcodes to be kept together and similarly for telephone numbers .
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In his letter to the student the dean included his home telephone number .
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Distances to resorts, information on speed limits, tolls, accident procedure and useful telephone numbers are also mentioned.
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In the employee newsletter, telephone numbers are listed to report suspicions about co-workers.
■ VERB
double
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The move will double the number of people who can attend this popular event, from 4000 to 8000.
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Can you double the number of homes on a plot of land without making the residents claustrophobic or the neighbors ballistic?
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We will double the number of Safer Cities Schemes to cover 40 urban areas.
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With this aspect behind it, applications shot up, nearly doubling the number of EMs in the program.
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In Leicester youth court, the influx of 17-year-olds has doubled the number of juvenile offenders coming before magistrates.
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In one facetious article he promised to show the government how to double the number of jobs in the railroad industry.
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As to the enforcement of lorry weights, we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years.
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The way to outvote them was to double the number of people who held to the old ways.
grow
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A growing number of workers are put on short-term contracts which are renewed only if their work is up to scratch.
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Such conditions were ideal for spreading the disease; men contracted it in growing numbers and brought it home.
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This organism often grows in low numbers , and many laboratories still regard it as a contaminant.
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Brighter street lights, however, could not direct attention from the growing number of commercial eyesores taking power from the canal.
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A growing number had already been worrying about the social and corporate consequences of such massive restructurings.
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But a small rebellion has started and is growing , say a number of shoe designers and manufacturers and doctors.
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It was a good march, a splendid march which grew in numbers and confidence with every step along the way.
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There were, however, a growing number of black announcers, most notably Jack Cooper, whose career began in 1929.
increase
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A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article.
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An increasing number of parents are requesting this experience.
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A meeting with the Planning Inspectorate considered increasing the number of architect inspectors.
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Since then the number of dwellings has actually increased faster than the number of families.
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The local council in Yokohama hopes to increase the number of these trucks to 30 in the near future.
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Once uncommon in our waters, they have become more abundant as anchovies, a favored food, have increased in numbers .
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The poll tax will increase the numbers eligible for housing benefit.
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Inexpensive ways of getting online could increase the number in the next few years.
limit
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Like others, Alexander wants to cut congressional pensions and limit the number of terms that lawmakers can serve.
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Both are equally limited in the number of troops, tanks and artillery they can position near the border.
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They deliberately limit the number of guests to six at any one time as they aim to preserve the home-from-home atmosphere.
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A college football association is charged with conspiring to limit the number of college games that football fans can see on television.
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They would limit the number of performance quality breakthroughs in round two to between twenty and twenty-five.
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She is most strict on where we go and limits the number of our visitors.
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What is needed is a system rather than a handful of programs limited to a small number of schools and companies.
reduce
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Polio, apparently passed on from a human epidemic in the region, had already reduced their numbers .
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What more would local leaders and social service providers like to see done to reduce the ominous numbers ?
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Meanwhile police have launched a new campaign to reduce the number of distraction burglaries, which increased by fifteen percent last year.
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Those who stayed in business reduced their herd to numbers which they could more easily feed and take care of year round.
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This helps to reduce the number of green tubers.
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Amanda immediately hired additional support personnel and reduced the number of calls each of her teams were expected to make each week.
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If the drill is a success, it could reduce the numbers of offshore rigs needed for drilling at sea.
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The Clinton administration has pressed all agencies to reduce the number of supervisors.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
X number of people/things
a fair size/amount/number/bit/distance etc
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But a fair number of them went on to greater things.
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It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.
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Scientists must proceed cautiously, moving ahead only with the assent of a fair number of their colleagues.
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Thanks to the inherently leaky nature of the water industry, there is already a fair amount of information to go on.
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That involved a fair amount of travel.
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There was a fair amount going on.
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They'd have a fair bit of tidying up to do before they left.
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You may also be involved in a fair amount of travel.
a goodish distance/number etc
a goodly number/sum/amount etc
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It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen.
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Small Dave had spent a goodly amount of time impressing upon him the importance of finding a camel.
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The Thatcher Years have been splendid ones for a goodly number of golf members throughout this Royal and Ancient land of ours.
back issue/copy/number
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A little later Bacon appeared, walked up to their table and asked Minton why he did not look after his back numbers.
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Anyway, I thought you ought to know you have your reader back , and I enclose £4 for 4 back issues.
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Lifelong readers who kept the back issues piled in their attics renewed their subscriptions like clockwork at the five-year rate.
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Mackey had seen handbooks on guerrilla tactics, back issues of a racist magazine Guy published.
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My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s.
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Six issues cost $ 39, and new and back issues are available.
bring the total/number/score etc to sth
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A $ 7 parking fee and an automatic $ 12. 15 tip brought the total to $ 93. 15.
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By the time it was eventually closed in 1988, new investors had brought the total to £116 million.
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Cruz also said Muni planned to hire at least 12 additional safety staffers, bringing the total to 72.
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It is estimated that this element would bring the total to over 20,000.
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Michael Forbes of New York, already had declared his opposition to Gingrich, bringing the total to four.
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More than 30 square miles have been annexed into the city, bringing the total to 193.
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The armed forces are said to have sent an extra 2,000 troops to the border area, bringing the total to 3,500.
contact number/address/details
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Books can be entered and modified as can contact details.
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Frequently there is no contact number, so even if we like the music, we can't do much about it.
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Gave the name of his solicitors in London as his contact address.
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The video box illustration carries various official body contact addresses on the back for further information on the river.
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These advertisements generally use a Box number at the publication as the contact address and may be placed by the client.
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These provide the contact details and an indication of charges for more than 20 online brokers.
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This time we have remembered to put our contact numbers below.
crunch (the) numbers
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Linked together, they can crunch numbers as fast as any mainframe, but at a fraction of the cost.
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One crunched numbers; they were very important to him.
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She lived for the day when she could crunch numbers in the dry air of West Texas.
look out for number one
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We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
magic number/word
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The Maharishi's followers say that 7000 is a magic number.
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Al knew at once that he had heard A very secret magic word.
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Bacon could argue that Antichrist would invoke stellar influences and magic words having the power to produce physical effects.
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Charles would capture one of the boys and only release him if he said the magic word.
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For Geteles and others, potential was the magic word, the answer to all the talk about standards.
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If that magic number is reached, the deal becomes an international treaty.
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Once a patient has his magic number, does it have any effect?
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The magic words had been uttered.
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This is done by listening to a tape and writing on your application form a magic number.
number one/two/three etc seed
odd number
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An odd number of classes provides a neutral mid-point.
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An individual scorer might be useful where an odd number of people are concerned.
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Clearly the northern fleet is being reinforced from the southern; but why the odd numbers?
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Erect verticals upon the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
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He said that we have to prove that no odd number can be perfect.
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I have no idea why it is always an odd number.
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Three arrangements with eight fences; five with ten fences ... odd numbers ... Was there a pattern?
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You need to have an odd number of colours, including the background.
premium rate number/line/service
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Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information, Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service.
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Choice has not been considered in premium rate services.
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That is certainly true in the context of telecommunications and, more specifically, in premium rate services.
public enemy number one
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Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
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She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
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Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
public enemy number one
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She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
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Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
sb's opposite number
shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc
there is safety in numbers
total number/amount/cost etc
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Additional disk space is a dollar or two per megabyte per month, depending on total amount.
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Microcell bid only in southern Ontario for a total cost of $ 19.2-million.
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Multiply the number of widths by the number of pattern repeats per drop to give the total number of pattern repeats required.
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The total amount of contributions and tax paid by each employee is entered on the P35.
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The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted.
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The total number of jobless rose to 615, 830 from 609, 670.
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The total number of registered voters was 1,732,000 aged 16 and over.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"The show's not very good." "We can leave after this number if you want."
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A large number of reporters had gathered outside the house.
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All the doors on this side of the street have odd numbers.
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An enormous number of people wrote to complain about last night's show.
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Ann's phone number is 555-3234.
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By next year, the number of homes with either cable or satellite television is expected to be just over 10 million.
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Cast members performed the new dance number .
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Double check the account number to make sure it's right.
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Each player has a number on the back of their shirt.
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I live at number 12 Liverpool Road.
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May I please have your Social Security number ?
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Nell Carter also appeared and performed a couple of upbeat numbers.
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Pick a number between one and ten.
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Raffle ticket number 241 wins the dinner for two at La Fiorentina.
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Take a look at question number three.
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The number of cars on the roads increased by 22% last year.
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The number of working days lost through strikes has continued to rise.
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The game works best with an even number of children.
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The regulations limit the number of students in each class.
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There have been several cases of tuberculosis, and the number is rising.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the end of last month, the number had increased to 41. 2 percent.
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DeBuono attributes the higher number of cases in Monroe County to better hospital reporting.
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He mentioned the number eight or nine times.
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However, the grammar must be able to correctly distinguish word hypotheses or the number of paths will grow exponentially.
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It is directly responsible for 35,000 deaths from lung cancer and twice this number from other diseases every year.
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The number of police officers has increased enormously during the past 10 years.
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The rain had stopped but the mosquitoes were out in alarming numbers and there was no jeep to ride in.
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The result was a large number of takeovers and mergers.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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By 1907 it had its own herdbook and numbered about 35,000.
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The attempt at adding-machine accuracy shows how serious the priests were about numbering the new saints bound for heaven.
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At the rally, numbering about 1,500 as Scargill predicted, I eavesdrop unashamedly.
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The whole community with their servants numbered about thirty.
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The music-loving elector had immediately installed a substantial orchestra, which by 1777 numbered about 45 players.
around
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A count of women and children at copper mines in 1787 suggests that then women workers may have numbered around 1,500.
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We pass our phone numbers around for various league-ball possibilities.
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Nevertheless the future of the red kite looks secure, numbering around forty eight pairs in recent years.
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Today its workforce numbers around 100.
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The Karavas, whose traditional occupation was fishing, numbered around ten percent of the Sinhalese population.
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The vast army numbered around 100,000 cavalry and 25,000 musketeers as well as divisions of war elephants and camel-artillery.
consecutively
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Each pad has an identifying number , and each check is numbered consecutively .
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Except in the shortest of particulars of claim, allegations should be divided into paragraphs and numbered consecutively .
nearly
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All told, the assault force and its reserves probably numbered nearly 15, 000 men.
now
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His days are now numbered as Chancellor, but who the Hell cares about Norman Lamont?
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Republicans now number 3 million and Democrats 3. 5 million.
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Over 23,000 new members joined thanks to the 1990 campaign and membership currently stands at 190,000, with Governors now numbering 29,676.
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It still seems like a recession to the unemployed workers, now numbering 5 percent of the workforce.
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The student body now numbers some 500, of which about seventy per cent come from the department of Ayacucho.
only
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By 1640, 100,000 planters had arrived in Ireland when the native population numbered only one million inhabitants.
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But after the hoopla, the exposition slumped, admissions at first numbering only fifteen or twenty thousand per day.
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These pioneer clinics, which numbered only sixteen even by 1930, had treated only 21,000 women by that time.
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army
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The vast army numbered around 100,000 cavalry and 25,000 musketeers as well as divisions of war elephants and camel-artillery.
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Later it was recorded that the castellan of Amboise's army numbered 200 knights and 1,000 footsoldiers.
days
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After you have numbered the days , you tear off the page.
group
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Most meat distributions involve a local group numbering between fifty and one hundred individuals.
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This group numbers 167. 5 million, of whom half are adolescents.
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The caretaking group numbered nine men.
man
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A very substantial force, perhaps numbering 15,000 men , assembled at Portsmouth in July 1346.
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The caretaking group numbered nine men .
million
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They numbered about a million people.
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This group numbers 167. 5 million , of whom half are adolescents.
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Individual recipients numbered 14. 2 million , including 9 million children.
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Republicans now number 3 million and Democrats 3. 5 million.
page
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Similarly, each page is uniquely numbered .
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One of the fastest ways to list is simply to drop your points on the page , numbering as you go.
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Select option 6 for page numbering in the bottom center of every page.
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And leafing through the book, I read the page numbers out loud, too.
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This is another annoying trend among some of the slicker glossies: leaving page numbers out whenever they feel like it.
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The page numbering will now begin with this page, the first page of actual text. 4.
phone
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We pass our phone numbers around for various league-ball possibilities.
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They include: How new local phone numbers would be created.
population
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By 1640, 100,000 planters had arrived in Ireland when the native population numbered only one million inhabitants.
security
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The firm began making Social Security numbers available through its P-Trak service last year, something competing firms have done for years.
telephone
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On one he found four telephone numbers with out-of-state area codes.
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There are spaces for emergency telephone numbers , parents' and neighbors' numbers and additional numbers.
thousands
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Outside the breeding season they form flocks, sometimes numbering thousands .
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Rules numbered in the thousands , requiring a large investment in experts' time, rule development, and rule maintenance.
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But since those men were numbered in thousands - with every opportunity in the world for rekindling those ugly sparks of revolution.
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Their flocks numbered in the thousands , earning them the nickname of migrating millionaires'.
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The private Acts of Parliament affecting local authorities were numbered in thousands .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
X number of people/things
a fair size/amount/number/bit/distance etc
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But a fair number of them went on to greater things.
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It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.
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Scientists must proceed cautiously, moving ahead only with the assent of a fair number of their colleagues.
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Thanks to the inherently leaky nature of the water industry, there is already a fair amount of information to go on.
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That involved a fair amount of travel.
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There was a fair amount going on.
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They'd have a fair bit of tidying up to do before they left.
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You may also be involved in a fair amount of travel.
a goodish distance/number etc
a goodly number/sum/amount etc
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It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen.
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Small Dave had spent a goodly amount of time impressing upon him the importance of finding a camel.
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The Thatcher Years have been splendid ones for a goodly number of golf members throughout this Royal and Ancient land of ours.
back issue/copy/number
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A little later Bacon appeared, walked up to their table and asked Minton why he did not look after his back numbers.
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Anyway, I thought you ought to know you have your reader back , and I enclose £4 for 4 back issues.
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Lifelong readers who kept the back issues piled in their attics renewed their subscriptions like clockwork at the five-year rate.
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Mackey had seen handbooks on guerrilla tactics, back issues of a racist magazine Guy published.
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My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s.
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Six issues cost $ 39, and new and back issues are available.
contact number/address/details
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Books can be entered and modified as can contact details.
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Frequently there is no contact number, so even if we like the music, we can't do much about it.
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Gave the name of his solicitors in London as his contact address.
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The video box illustration carries various official body contact addresses on the back for further information on the river.
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These advertisements generally use a Box number at the publication as the contact address and may be placed by the client.
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These provide the contact details and an indication of charges for more than 20 online brokers.
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This time we have remembered to put our contact numbers below.
look out for number one
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We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
magic number/word
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The Maharishi's followers say that 7000 is a magic number.
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Al knew at once that he had heard A very secret magic word.
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Bacon could argue that Antichrist would invoke stellar influences and magic words having the power to produce physical effects.
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Charles would capture one of the boys and only release him if he said the magic word.
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For Geteles and others, potential was the magic word, the answer to all the talk about standards.
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If that magic number is reached, the deal becomes an international treaty.
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Once a patient has his magic number, does it have any effect?
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The magic words had been uttered.
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This is done by listening to a tape and writing on your application form a magic number.
number one/two/three etc seed
odd number
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An odd number of classes provides a neutral mid-point.
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An individual scorer might be useful where an odd number of people are concerned.
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Clearly the northern fleet is being reinforced from the southern; but why the odd numbers?
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Erect verticals upon the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
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He said that we have to prove that no odd number can be perfect.
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I have no idea why it is always an odd number.
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Three arrangements with eight fences; five with ten fences ... odd numbers ... Was there a pattern?
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You need to have an odd number of colours, including the background.
premium rate number/line/service
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Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information, Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service.
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Choice has not been considered in premium rate services.
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That is certainly true in the context of telecommunications and, more specifically, in premium rate services.
public enemy number one
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Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
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She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
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Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
public enemy number one
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She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
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Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
sb's opposite number
sb's/sth's days are numbered
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I think Harry's days as a bachelor are numbered.
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But if the church has its way, the garden's days are numbered.
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He knows his days are numbered.
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If Gordon Gekko is still around, his days are numbered.
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My image flickers and your days are numbered.
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Whatever the protests, it seems that Hospital's days are numbered.
there is safety in numbers
total number/amount/cost etc
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Additional disk space is a dollar or two per megabyte per month, depending on total amount.
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Microcell bid only in southern Ontario for a total cost of $ 19.2-million.
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Multiply the number of widths by the number of pattern repeats per drop to give the total number of pattern repeats required.
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The total amount of contributions and tax paid by each employee is entered on the P35.
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The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted.
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The total number of jobless rose to 615, 830 from 609, 670.
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The total number of registered voters was 1,732,000 aged 16 and over.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fifteen years ago, Kenya's elephant population numbered 65,000.
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If you don't number your answers, how will I know which questions they refer to?
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In the capital, unemployed workers now number 12% of the workforce.
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Our student body numbered 400 last year.
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The crowd of students numbered at least 2000.
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The program will automatically number the pages of your reports.
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The streets in the Bronx are numbered.
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This function numbers all the pages in a document.
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We finished numbering the seats just as the audience began to arrive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It still seems like a recession to the unemployed workers, now numbering 5 percent of the workforce.
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Outside the breeding season they form flocks, sometimes numbering thousands.
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Republicans now number 3 million and Democrats 3. 5 million.
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The first batch of railcoaches took fleet numbers 200-224, and a second was delivered in 1935 numbered 264-283.
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The street door was locked so I pressed the button numbered 11 on the squawk box built into the porch.
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We will use squares numbered 2 to 41 on the width and squares 2 to 38 high, or multiples of this.