Example sentences of "of the number of [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't want another body because of the number of rules and regulations , you want to reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't need another body . |
| 2 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 3 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 4 | The Americans , called on to prove their sincerity , could only do so in terms of the number of Hawks and TOWs that had already been shipped . |
| 5 | Heclo points to the rapid expansion of the number of groups and their representatives in Washington in the 1970s . |
| 6 | Against each one of these headings , you should have an estimate of the number of hours that you propose to charge the defendants . |
| 7 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I lost count of the number of bathrooms and lavatories … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Because of the number of agencies and interests in any policy issue , the conflict of competing interests means that rational approaches are unlikely to succeed . |
| 13 | This shows that the distance between the chain ends , for this model is proportional to the square root of the number of bonds and so , is considerably shorter than a fully extended chain . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | DesignaKnit will warn you of this and will also advise you of the number of stitches and rows needed for the best result , in terms of both detail and proportion . |
| 16 | our floor plan is , because of the number of moves and so on we 've got ta have |
| 17 | However , Monday morning is also busy because of the number of premises that are found broken into after the weekend . |
| 18 | He made a mental note of the number of coaches and freight cars . |
| 19 | Er , on paragraph nine the government 's own figures show that there is a shortfall of glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a and that they 've mixed , the site provision is n't keeping pace with the growth of the number of caravans and yet , what it 's proposing to do in this paper will make the situation worse by removing any incentive erm and any requirement on local authorities actually to provide the sites that are needed to make up that shortfall and it 's quite clear that what this is about is actually what it is happening in housing in general and that is shifting provision from the pri , from the public to the private sector . |
| 20 | It is worth reminding the House what the Bill , if enacted in its present form , would involve : the loss of 83 homes , the displacement of 326 residents , the demolition of four listed buildings , the destruction of well over 10 acres of property in two conservation areas , the destruction of a two-acre inner-city nature reserve of great value to the local community , the loss of 168 workplaces providing 1,620 jobs , the loss of 58 shops , 38 of which provide key services to local people , the diversion of a major traffic artery for a period of three years , a doubling of the number of rail passengers and a doubling of the number of cars and taxis coming to King 's Cross and St. Pancras during the morning peak hour . |
| 21 | The empirical formula shows the simplest ratio of the number of atoms or ions in a substance . |
| 22 | The predominance of a small minority of cases is further illustrated if we use two further measures of the extent of the coverage in addition to the gross number of reports , that of the number of days and the number of pages in which each rape case is featured . |
| 23 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |