Example sentences of "[prep] number of [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet another concept is that of invariance of number of elements in a set . |
| 2 | Usually , as in most Italian towers , the window and belfry openings increased in number of lights as the stages ascended — commonly from one to five . |
| 3 | The Cathedral , begun 1160 , has a beautiful Romanesque façade ( 1196–1204 ) with a narthex , galleried and arcaded with screen gable and , beside it , a tall bell tower with typical Italian openings , increasing in number of lights towards the top . |
| 4 | When our locals assessed success story , the Nissan Plant , sells less cars , it 's an economic threat and could become an economic disaster , when the plant sells more cars , it adds to the increase in number of cars on the roads which represents a pollution threat and contributes to a pollution disaster , let alone traffic problems of course . |
| 5 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |