Example sentences of "[adj -er] numbers of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bakalov said Huron version 1.18 , expected in Q2 1993 , will support Motif for the first time as well as the RS/6000 , improved buffers support for larger numbers of terminals , Oracle server ( Unix ) and DB server(MVS) . |
| 2 | The large size of the chamber , which permits the introduction of several specimens at one time , and the reduction in preparation time by removing the need to coat specimens has made it possible to scan much larger numbers of specimens than would normally be possible . |
| 3 | But once you break that down and start to have lots of small independent production companies , then you find very many larger numbers of women and everyone can choose who they want to work with . |
| 4 | After 1870 rather larger numbers of companies were providing a wider range of provision , including in some cases , old-age pensions and health care . |
| 5 | This is even more true of real animals with their vastly larger numbers of genes . |
| 6 | Concessionaires usually employ their own staff , but are able to take advantage of the facilities offered by the department store , together with its advertising , and its larger numbers of customers . |
| 7 | This observation is relevant to the interpretation of much larger numbers of layers observed in the ocean , and may be seen in the context of the very general tendency , discussed in Section 23.4 , for layering to arise in double diffusive systems . |
| 8 | Other test batteries result in still larger numbers of dimensions of intellectual variation . |
| 9 | Documents can only be identified as relevant by scanning the rather larger numbers of documents listed under the broader heading . |
| 10 | The only real progress has come in learning how to drive those evaluation routines faster and faster , thus allowing larger numbers of positions to be examined in the time available . |
| 11 | Larger numbers of roe deer live near there and Czechoslovakia still has bears and wolves roaming in the wild . |
| 12 | This and the building of shopping centres and roads for larger numbers of cars created jobs in construction and materials . |
| 13 | There was a trend towards more intestinal pain in the women with hysterectomy and this might have become significant with larger numbers of subjects . |
| 14 | Larger numbers of subjects need to be studied to determine the significance of these preliminary findings . |
| 15 | However , a more recent study , with larger numbers of patients and controls , drawn from an identical ‘ genetic pool ’ has not confirmed the initial report ; not particular haplotype of either type I collagen gene was found to be associated with cirrhosis . |
| 16 | These results would suggest that endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography may be a better method of sampling for biliary cytology than percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography although larger numbers of patients within a randomised study would be required for conformation . |
| 17 | The analysis of much larger numbers of patients will soon be possible in this multicentre trial . |
| 18 | However , it is possible that the ratio of hidden to known use provided by Method 4 is nearer to the true ratio than the others because , although it involved less accurate determination of identity codes , the larger numbers of nominees involved may dilute the effect of extreme cases . |
| 19 | Because the numbers are small and the results could be due to chance , studies of larger numbers of children are needed . |
| 20 | Similarly , as observed by Bradford and Burdett ( 1989 ) , larger numbers of children in southern England go through the private education system than would be expected from the social class patterns there . |
| 21 | The other unauthorised absentees were a mixture of small numbers of ‘ ghost ’ pupils wrongly on the register , of pupils in trouble and temporarily avoiding school and larger numbers of pupils for whom authorisation was expected . |
| 22 | But applications for larger numbers of shares are likely to be scaled back substantially after the offer was oversubscribed by 4.7 times .. |
| 23 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 24 | The multidivisional enterprise : The tendency of the argument here is the following : if the exploitation of economies of scale on the part of capitalist enterprises primarily involved the development of ever larger units of production , in the technical sense , concentrating progressively larger numbers of workers into massive factories , then there could indeed be a conflict between the wish to retain the benefits of economies of scale on the one hand and the requirements of ‘ manageable ’ enterprise democracy on the other . |
| 25 | One-way streets expose larger numbers of people to higher levels of noise and pollution from more dangerous traffic ; there is thus decreased emphasis on their use in new schemes and conversion of existing one-way streets to two-way operation . |
| 26 | This implies a more elaborate division of labour : horizontally , in terms of there being larger numbers of people each doing different jobs at the work-place ; and also vertically , as new jobs are created among white-collar workers to co-ordinate and control the various semi-skilled or unskilled workers — a task made necessary because of the deliberate fragmentation of that labour . |
| 27 | He considers the ways in which oral conventions persisted in twelfth and thirteenth century English society at a time when larger numbers of people were beginning to use literacy for more purposes . |
| 28 | With the increasing growth and concentration of activities that accompanied urbanization , pollution nuisances occurred more frequently and affected larger numbers of people , yet pollution was essentially perceived to be a problem of dense smoke emission to be dealt with at the local level ( figure 8.1 ) . |
| 29 | Political power may be decentralized to some extent , made more democratic , involve the active participation of larger numbers of people , become less directly coercive , but there seems to be no ground upon which to base a theory of the total ‘ withering away ’ of the state and the whole political sphere . |
| 30 | It is recognized that any programme of improving information management will cost money , in the form of staff and equipment , but any money spent will result in opening up the wealth of our information resources to larger numbers of people . |