Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect however that you have misquoted the number as the highest number I know is 57435 . |
| 2 | Other ancient manuscripts give the number as seventy-two which shows that even then there was some confusion about statistics ! |
| 3 | They expressed surprise at the figures I produced , and they were to be even more surprised in 1973 when a survey far more extensive than mine gave the number as 1,737,000 . |
| 4 | He tapped the number into the console of his desk-top computer . |
| 5 | He copied the number into his notebook . |
| 6 | He had read the number off the old-fashioned dial phone as he handed his last letter in . |
| 7 | Well I do n't know the number off the top of my head , but I do know |
| 8 | A local authority report on changes between 1979 and 1987 indicates that of the 16 600 pre-1919 dwelling in North Tyneside , the number without amenities had fallen from 2800 in 1979 to 262 in 1987 . |
| 9 | It is ‘ to maximise the number of ET leavers entering the labour market and minimise the number without employment ’ ( p. 9 ) . |
| 10 | However , examination of the actual numerical increases indicate that the number aged 85 + will increase by about 800,000 . |
| 11 | You tend to get one behind , then suddenly , before you know it , the number on the jetty seems to have multiplied . |
| 12 | Philip scrawled the number on the pad by the phone . |
| 13 | We are taught at school that if , when subtracting , the number on the top is smaller than that on the bottom , we have to carry ten from the left , take the bottom number from that ten and then add the top one — only sometimes we find that the top number on the left is a zero which means that we have to carry ten from the one to the left of that , turn the zero into a nine and then carry the ten … what a complicated process . |
| 14 | Taking out a pencil , she noted down the number on a piece of paper , and then peeped cautiously into the back of the car . |
| 15 | If you instruction is found , simply make your second move as shown by the number on your personal game card . |
| 16 | In a beat-up garage on a long stretch of road ; the number on this phone is unreadable . ’ |
| 17 | The mother , dialling the number on the phone , said , ‘ I 'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are . |
| 18 | It can address up to 256 logical paths , twice the number on IBM 's new controller . |
| 19 | He found the warehouse which corresponded to the number on the invoice lying beside him on the passenger seat and slowed the Golf to a halt in front of it . |
| 20 | The number on the register is far greater than the number formerly liable for domestic rates — one reason for the introduction of the new system — and it is correspondingly more difficult to prevent non-registration and evasion . |
| 21 | If you look at the number on the register , I 've got three and a half thousand |
| 22 | Okay No sorry I did n't make that clear erm mark every fifth put the number on every fifth one . |
| 23 | Yeah in the the number on the bottom is bigger but that just means you 've got to share it out between more people so do you get more or less if you share it between more people ? |
| 24 | So as the number on the bottom is getting bigger |
| 25 | The number on actual income support has doubled to 10.3 million since 1979 . |
| 26 | He did n't know why he kept them really , except that they helped to make up the number on the shelves . |
| 27 | Before adding or taking away we get the number on the bottom to be the same right . |
| 28 | How d how do we make sure that the number on the bottom is the same ? |
| 29 | He crossed to the VDU on his other desk and punched in a series of numbers , checking the number on Bryce 's file . |
| 30 | She checked the number on the polished brass wall-plaque and knew she had arrived . |