Example sentences of "[verb] [art] number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , both units limited the number of in-patients to two at any given time . |
| 2 | No distinction is made between a number that records salary and one that records the number of parts in a warehouse in St Louis . |
| 3 | He divided the number of crimes by the number of minutes in an hour to show how many crimes were committed in a certain time . |
| 4 | Given the number of groups in any organization , it is inevitable that conflicts will develop . |
| 5 | It contains a solution to the problem ( in Bayes 's words ) : ‘ Given the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed : Required the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named . ’ |
| 6 | Once in the polling booth , the voter is faced with a daunting array of candidates : given the number of offices to be filled and the number of people seeking to fill them , the number of names may be a three-figure one . |
| 7 | Words were recognised almost twice as quickly by the fast readers and , given the number of words in each sentence , this leads to a large efficiency difference between individuals . |
| 8 | Namaliu rode out the protest and was successful in seeing through an initial parliamentary vote on a constitutional reform which would restrict the number of votes of no confidence . |
| 9 | ERR The number of errors against the media unit is not zero . |
| 10 | Fourth , within 20 years , we will double the number of students in higher education , with at least in three young adults participating by the year 2000 . |
| 11 | It would be helpful , therefore , for Gould and colleagues to report the number of men with microalbuminuria in both samples and the size of the difference in height between men in this group and men without albuminuria when the means for both groups are standardised to the same age distribution . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , it is not a simple matter to estimate the number of children in such families . |
| 13 | But first of all let me explain how we come to agree the number of booklets on the and the individual financial target per assignment . |
| 14 | In addition sectarian killings resumed following the collapse of the Brooke initiative [ see p. 38402 ] and in September a Sinn Féin councillor was shot dead , bringing the number of killings in 1991 in Northern Ireland to 59 [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 15 | Estonia joined the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) on Jan. 31 , bringing the number of members to 136 [ see p. 38267 ] . |
| 16 | Until 1910 organized labour protest was subdued but as the industrial boom gathered pace , bringing the number of workers in mining and large-sale industry to over three million by 1914 , the relative industrial calm was broken . |
| 17 | To compare the number of patients with normal and abnormal gastric pH profiles the Fisher 's exact test was applied . |
| 18 | The child has initially been asked to compare the number of cars on the two shelves , and has done so correctly . |
| 19 | The first phase of her project was to study Ordnance Survey maps published from 1896 onwards , to compare the numbers of ponds in existence in the last century with those present today . |
| 20 | The bigram matrix is stored as a 1-dimensional array of length ( 109 * 109 ) , reflecting the number of tags in the tagset . |
| 21 | The mole fraction of component A in a mixture of A and B is given by where denotes the number of moles of denotes the number of moles of B and XA denotes the mole fraction of A. |
| 22 | The mole fraction of component A in a mixture of A and B is given by where denotes the number of moles of denotes the number of moles of B and XA denotes the mole fraction of A. |
| 23 | To adjust for the effect of clustering , χ 2 a d j was calculated by dividing the resulting χ 2 statistic by where m i represents the number of students in the n th cluster ( school ) and ρ represents the intracluster correlation . |
| 24 | I have listed the number of occurrences of each individual word occurring in the data in table 5.4 . |
| 25 | The ratio numbers quoted mean the number of turns of the propeller shaft for one turn of the road wheel . |
| 26 | ‘ Terminating the window-cleaning contract would not affect performance and would not affect the number of applicants for places . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Reducing the external painting cycle from five to eight years would not affect performance and would not affect the number of applicants for places . ’ |
| 28 | Abubakar Mgumia , minister for tourism , natural resources and environment , said : ‘ The hunting of a few elephants by tourists will not affect the number of elephants in the country . ’ |
| 29 | According to certain texts Isis and Nephthys buried each part of the body in the place where they found it , which could explain the number of sites in Egypt associated with the burial of Osiris . |
| 30 | The renovation forms part of an £80,000 cash package to help boost the numbers of visitors to the Rivington estate . |