Example sentences of "the number of [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each authority will be responding to its local conditions , the numbers of SSD homes it has kept in reserve to manage the market , the extent to which it has created quasi-independent trusts , and the number of private beds in its locality . |
| 2 | Sampling saves time , labour and , therefore , money and by reducing the numbers of cases involved it allows for a concentration of effort on high quality information about the smaller number of cases involved . |
| 3 | For each of the 51 case children whose mother was interviewed at least one mother of a corresponding control was also interviewed : the numbers of cases having one , two , three , four , five , and six corresponding interviewed control mothers were one , three , three , 21 , 15 , and eight respectively . |
| 4 | For the 49 case children whose father was interviewed the numbers of cases having one , two , three , four , five , and six corresponding interviewed control fathers were one , three , five , 18 , 15 , and seven respectively . |
| 5 | The numbers of cases having one , two , three , four , five , and six controls with obstetric data were one , none , two , two , 11 , and 21 respectively . |
| 6 | Geneva states that in the 1980s , ‘ IVF and allied procedures changed from being purely experimental in character to become accepted treatments for certain types of infertility and the numbers of centres offering them increased rapidly ’ . |
| 7 | The fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina , coupled with the forced expulsions of one ethnic group by another ( in particular of Moslems by Serb forces ) — a practice widely referred to as " ethnic cleansing " , precipitated a major increase in the numbers of people fleeing their homes in June and July . |
| 8 | If a lifestyle can be accurately described , and the numbers of people following it quantified , then marketers can assign and target products and promotion upon this particular target life.style group . |
| 9 | Overwhelmed by the number of donors pushing their desire to lend , recipient governments were frequently unable to sort out their own priorities in a meaningful way . |
| 10 | But , although these two set precedents , there was no conspicuous increase in the number of slaves gaining their freedom . |
| 11 | The assumption that politics is not a place for women persists and must itself reduce the number of women putting themselves forward . |
| 12 | From the number of resonances observed we conclude that d ( TG 4 T ) associates as a tetraplex with fourfold symmetry . |
| 13 | The number of listed companies rose by 428 during the four years , but the number of firms auditing them fell by 39 . |
| 14 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |
| 15 | From this information it will be possible to identify the number of nurses needed who have gained post-.registration qualifications in particular nursing specialties . |
| 16 | In other words , in a given time , the number of particles leaving the liquid equals the number of particles entering it . |
| 17 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 18 | GP Sandy Jordan , 63 , blasted the hearing as ‘ victimisation ’ after being asked to explain the number of night calls he makes . |
| 19 | The number of Germans registering their official exit from the church — the only way to avoid the charge — surged to a record last year as people sought to offset the one-off ‘ solidarity surcharge ’ imposed to meet the astronomical costs of unification . |
| 20 | As a result , the walls built so far in Scotland have proved inadequate for the number of people using them . |
| 21 | A proposal to increase the number of people poisoning our rivers or those producing carcinogenic substances would not be too popular . |
| 22 | The number of people identified who have made the move to the community was 768 at the last count , up to about September 1988. 526 are included in the evaluation , so we are already getting a lot of information about the potential of community care . |
| 23 | This is certainly a problem which mitigates against the widest acceptance of the language , though the number of people resisting its use today is probably very small , composed of the older and the less well educated . |
| 24 | Is my hon. Friend aware that there was a serious fall-off in the number of people presenting themselves for eye tests for a considerable period after the charges were introduced and that the current figures show that we have not yet made up that gap ? |
| 25 | In the last two decades the number of people saying they could no longer do jobs about the house or enjoy their hobbies because of sickness has steadily risen . |
| 26 | With the increase in the number of people having their own transport , those who have left the area are able to return for the show . |
| 27 | Protester Richard Keeble , a Labour member of Braintree District Council , said the number of people having their water supplies disconnected — which they put at nearly 2,000 — meant more would be suffering from ill health including dysentery . |
| 28 | This point emphasises why it has been so difficult to control the overall cost of benefits , which depends on both the level of benefits provided and the number of people claiming them . |
| 29 | This figure is known as the ‘ unit cost ’ , and is arrived at simply by dividing the total amount spent on a service ( e.g. nursery schools ) by the number of children using it ( expressed as ‘ full-time equivalents ’ , so that two part-time children would count as one full-time equivalent ) . |
| 30 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |