Example sentences of "[prep] the number of [noun pl] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I make no apology for the number of committees that we have and I make no apology for the numbers on the committee . |
| 3 | Yes , yes , I mean this year , with the formula obviously , because the number of fire calls has dropped , it impacts upon er , as I say that , I do n't know whether the actual , the cost , the differential between the number of calls that have dropped and the drop in the S S A , whether it 's comparable , and I do n't suppose they 've got a measure of the drop , in S S A terms it 's far greater than the actual marginal costs of er , not attending those er , extra , extra fire calls . |
| 4 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 5 | Against each one of these headings , you should have an estimate of the number of hours that you propose to charge the defendants . |
| 6 | This gives a rough idea of the number of choices that have to be carried forward in order to produce word graphs of this size . |
| 7 | Apart from the question of the number of dimensions that space-time appears to have , string theory still has several other problems that must be solved before it can be acclaimed as the ultimate unified theory of physics . |
| 8 | But I mean it 's it er it was great I mean the fact that I was I mean in in Aberdeen I was away from home , I mean you did n't even notice it , because of the number of Orcadians that popped in by the hospital and as I said sent cards and letters , it was great . |
| 9 | In a quantitative sense , in terms of the number of laws that have been passed in the past 12 years , that is correct , but if the totality of the laws represent a house , it will ensure that the laws that it changes will result in the foundations being decimated , with the result that it will fall down . |
| 10 | However , Monday morning is also busy because of the number of premises that are found broken into after the weekend . |
| 11 | If you open your mind to all possibilities , you might surprise yourself ( and the rest of the team ) with the number of opportunities that exist for selling on . |
| 12 | Until we do , I would suggest , and it 's not just about until we do , then , I do n't think we 're going to make really serious dint with the number of children that we now have in care . |
| 13 | % mand molar loss : numbers of empty alveolar spaces in the mandibles compared with the numbers of teeth that should be present , which is given by empty alveolar spaces plus molars still present . |
| 14 | % max. molar loss : numbers of empty alveolar spaces in the maxillae compared with the numbers of molars that should be present , which is given by the empty alveolar spaces plus the teeth still present in the maxillae . |
| 15 | ‘ As far as I am concerned diving is not an excessive calorie-consuming sport , and certainly from the numbers of divers that I see who are overweight , I do not actually believe that the statement in ‘ The Great Diving Adventure ’ , by Horace Hobbs , is actually borne out . |
| 16 | But it was not in the number of hours that the factory system brought a new dimension . |
| 17 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 18 | Also supported is a 64-port Asynchronous Controller , said to provide a fourfold increase in the number of devices that can attach to the 220 . |
| 19 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
| 20 | The use of syntactic information led to a 30% reduction in the number of words that were incorrectly transcribed . |
| 21 | But concern is expressed in the number of jobs that the perfect minister is expected to do . |
| 22 | I have been interested in the number of representations that I have received from country areas and I see no reason why the Bill can not apply to villages , too . |
| 23 | Culture defines status , and fro women and men in many societies achievement or retention of status depends upon the number of children that one has ; for the women , having many children may be the only means of acquiring status within the family and the community . |
| 24 | Consequently , the ‘ law ’ on the subject of Musgrove v. Pandelis ( strict liability for petrol in the tank of a car ) may depend upon the number of appeals that the client is prepared to take . |
| 25 | The chief pharmacist , for example , has no control over the number of prescriptions that come into his department . |
| 26 | And , since there is no limit to the number of hypotheses that can fit a given body of data , what reason have we to suppose that we are capable of producing , and finding plausible , an hypothesis that is on the right lines ? |
| 27 | The Save The Children Fund programme with the motorcycles has made a very big difference to the number of visits that health assistants can make to villages . |
| 28 | The number of particles in the baby universe will be equal to the number of particles that have fallen into the black hole , plus the number of particles that the black hole emits during its evaporation . |
| 29 | We ca n't give a precise answer to the number of generations that would be necessary . |
| 30 | It also recognises that there is a limit to the number of changes that a school can undertake in one year . |