Sentence examples for act at a number from inspiring English sources

In November 2005, she appeared as the support act at a number of dates on Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers Tour.

Forces that act at a number of different spatial scales impact these processes.

Selenium is involved in various anticarcinogenic processes and may act at a number of stages in cancer development [ 13].

But the jury has now vindicated their belief that those tasked with his care could have saved his life if they had acted at a number of stages in the runup to his death.

At the cellular level, it appears that anesthetics act predominantly at a relatively small number of molecular targets, in particular, GABAA receptors, two-pore domain potassium channels, and NMDA receptors.

Consider what it would mean for the U.S. legal system if the decisions of the Supreme Court were not widely available for years, and legislative acts were available only at a limited number of national centers or libraries, chronologically stored and poorly indexed.

I did however, love that major international diplomacy had to happen between acts at the ballet, in front of large numbers of important people.

Another development is the number of female acts at what has always been a predominantly male bastion.

In a mixed review, Spin magazine Jonathan Bernstein was not impressed by songs such as "If I Had No Loot" and "What Goes Around Comes Around", and accused the group of competing with the growing numbers of R&B acts at the time, including Silk, H-Town, and Intro.

The writhe number quantifies the twisting force that acts at each point on the surface of a lesion.

Bastille is the English band behind the top-10 single "Pompeii"; it's also one of a sizable number of acts at Coachella this year -- along with Lorde, Pharrell Williams and Capital Cities, all due to perform Saturday -- whose success is happening squarely in the mainstream.