Example sentences of "[conj] [art] number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither figure displays the within-group variation or the numbers of subjects within each stratum , both of which are necessary to assess the meaningfulness of the between-group differences . |
| 2 | Indeed at secondary level the timetable of the week seems to blind one to considerations of the length of a course : the number of periods in a week or six days is debated , rather than the length of a period or the number of hours in a course . |
| 3 | Where the system falls down , of course , is when someone changes their mind about the typeface that 's going to be used or the number of columns per page . |
| 4 | In the case of a one-man company an independent auditor must be appointed , and if the registered capital exceeds 20 million forints or the number of members exceeds twenty-five or the number of employees on the average exceeds 200 , a supervisory board must also be created . |
| 5 | The base of the notation , or the number of characters in the character set . |
| 6 | What is most important is how classes are taught and how a school manages its teaching staff , rather than the actual number employed or the number of pupils per class . |
| 7 | It 's not yet clear whether the size of garden or the number of rooms with taps would be taken into account . |
| 8 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 9 | Digital variation ( where the number of elements in a motif varies ) |
| 10 | It can be seen that there is a wide variation , especially where the number of dies in a year is small . |
| 11 | Therefore , exposure to concentrations over and above the TLV may be permitted where the number of hours of exposure is less than those referred to above . |
| 12 | Despite the above , it still remains valid that the importance of the covariances between the returns of securities is the mot effective method of reducing risk where the number of shares in a portfolio is necessarily limited . |
| 13 | Section 6(3) ( a ) envisages a school where the number of applicants for admission exceeds the available places . |
| 14 | Lancaster too augmented his inheritance with purchases from lesser men , particularly in Lancashire and Cheshire , where a number of members of the knightly class conveyed manors to him . |
| 15 | A much better approach is modular software where a number of packages from a single supplier all share a common data format allowing information to be transferred easily but without requiring vast amounts of memory . |
| 16 | The role of providers , ie directly managed units , self-governing hospitals and private suppliers , is stated to be the delivery of ‘ contracted services within quality and quantity specification to one or a number of clients in return for agreed levels of income ’ ( DoH , 1989f ) . |
| 17 | Under such leases , the builder/developer would be responsible for erecting a building or a number of buildings upon a particular site , and detailed provision might be made for the manner of their construction and continuing maintenance , even down to the type of subsequent letting of the buildings which was to be permitted . |
| 18 | A parcel or goods , goods or a parcel , or a number of parcels from one address to another |
| 19 | Mr Organ thinks that the number of sites on the registers is bound to increase . |
| 20 | From a longer-term perspective , it can be said that the number of transactions per day has shown no tendency to increase since the mid-1970s ; there was a surge in total number of transactions during 1987 and 1988 due to a large number of deals between the newly established market makers but both transactions on behalf of customers and intra-market business has fallen back since then . |
| 21 | I leave Skye returning to Inverness with his account very similar to my own experience barring the missiles and the guides and honestly think once again that the number of visitors to some ‘ beauty spots ’ in the Highlands and Islands were far in excess of those of today . |
| 22 | Because of the financial value attached to insurance policies , records were preserved with extreme care and existing records migrated to a new medium only when two criteria were met : first , that the technology was completely proven , and second , that the number of policies in force made the transition practical . |
| 23 | The problem with that solution was that the number of positions to be evaluated expands to astronomical levels very rapidly . |
| 24 | Sometimes the measure would be evidence that the Japanese had changed a regulation ; sometimes that the number of distributors of foreign goods had grown , or the rate of acceptance of foreign bids for contracts . |
| 25 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 26 | Moreover , it remains a cause for considerable concern that the number of youngsters in the sixteen to nineteen age range who attend day release courses in Wales has been proportionally one of the lowest in England and Wales . |
| 27 | Suppose you and I were playing against each other , and suppose we both knew that the number of rounds in the game was to be exactly 100 . |
| 28 | The reason for this is that the number of tucks within the work distorts the knit stitches in such a way that they rise up above the surface of the knitting , forming a very three-dimensional effect . |
| 29 | I am delighted that the number of disconnections for debt has continued to fall . |
| 30 | Microsoft Corp says that the number of users of its Windows software now exceeds 25m and sales are still rising at over 1m copies a month , emphasising that the figure does not double-count users that have upgraded their to Windows 3.1 . |