Example sentences of "[noun] for the number of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 2 | These include : defining suitable values for the number of simulations required in a GIS environment rather than a statistical hypothesis-testing one ; assessing the utility of kernel estimators as an approximation that may allow smaller numbers of simulations to be used ; investigating the possibility of predicting the final output regions without performing large numbers of simulations ; and investigating possible hardware solutions to speed up the simulation process . |
| 3 | I think that , more , not sort of say a general question like that , but say that after the collection has happened that you want returns for the number of people in Oxford that have benefited from the number of groups in Oxford that have benefited . |
| 4 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the latest figure for the number of council properties left empty by the 10 councils with the most such properties . |
| 6 | Did you ever have not enough work for the number of men you had ? |
| 7 | Jean Parmiter apologised on behalf of the Training Committee for the number of changes which had had to be made in the advertised programmes for the training days in 1981–82 . |
| 8 | Subsequent appeals to the courts by disappointed students led the federal government to devise complex formulas that fix minima for the number of students each university department must take . |
| 9 | As I cycled faster and faster each morning as my legs grew stronger , I would imagine myself to be beating a world record for the number of times anyone could ride round our yard in one morning . |
| 10 | George also holds the record for the number of goals scored in a single season from the flank with a fabulous 22 goals in 1927–28 . |
| 11 | President Theodore Roosevelt holds the record for the number of hands shaken at an official function ? |
| 12 | Group Vacation Courses are run in the month of July , starting any Monday for the number of weeks requested . |
| 13 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that nothing is more insulting to women — whether it is said by women or men — than talk of setting targets for the number of women to be in top posts ? |
| 15 | And erm er they will s think about whether they 've got enough , be enough room for the number of people . |
| 16 | I make no apology for the number of committees that we have and I make no apology for the numbers on the committee . |
| 17 | I can tell you you 're in for some trouble if you start that because I I is you you 're all in trouble if you want to start these smaller committees , we have looked at the committees and as I say we make no apology for the number of committees or the number that 's on 'em . |
| 18 | Statistics for the number of recipients of all benefits are not collected on a regional basis . |
| 19 | Area analysis would then provide details of : * population according to Census statistics and population updates ; * population by ACORN category ; * statistics for the number of people who work in that area ( which may be significantly larger than the resident population ) . |
| 20 | It also points out in in in in the report , that this income has been to meet expenditure of thirty-two thousand pounds for the number of services , and the remainder of this , has been with additional insurance costs . |
| 21 | Examining July 1992 figures for the number of women councillors in district , regional and island councils , Labour had 703 of the 1,681 seats , of which 132 , or 19 per cent , were held by women . |
| 22 | ‘ Certified normal accommodation ’ ( CNA ) , the official figures for the number of prisoners which the system can officially cater for without overcrowding , allowed for 45,268 prisoners . |
| 23 | Various statistical sources giving figures for the number of receivers show the country as having 120,000 sets . |
| 24 | We will assume highly conservative figures for the number of households in 1995 and hold this number steady for the year 2000 . |
| 25 | I shall give the figures for the number of library books issued per hundred of the population across a sample of authorities . |
| 26 | Should the figures for the number of eye tests show an adverse trend compared with those of the past , will my hon. Friend consider the possibility of reintroducing free eye testing for the over-60s ? |
| 27 | Accurate figures for the number of animals caught in these remote freezing areas are hard to collect , but those we do know show the situation to be alarming . |
| 28 | As on Dartmoor , there were ancient tenements , in Withypoole and Hawkridge , and complex arrangements for the number of cattle which could be agisted on the commons . |
| 29 | The interest rate quoted is applied to the principal for the number of days of the advance divided by 365 if this is a domestic UK sterling deal ( 360 days for Eurosterling and most currencies ) , and the interest is repaid together with the principal at the maturity date . |
| 30 | WALES holds the record among the regions for the number of organisations actively involving themselves in getting new lines opened , new stations added and services improved . |