Example sentences of "the number [prep] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education authorities are required to produce guidelines which describe how children are to be allocated to schools and which outline procedures for deciding between competing claims when the number of requests for a particular school exceeds the number of places available , and to publish information about particular schools . |
| 2 | Such an MNP will have to obtain separate indemnity cover for overseas branch offices ; only the gross fees of the MNP 's offices in England and Wales will be taken into account in calculating its indemnity contributions ; and those partners in the MNP who normally practise from overseas offices will not be included in the number of principals for the purpose of calculating the contributions . |
| 3 | How can a group be taken seriously , or be considered concerned , when it openly rejects co-operation with this two hundred and thirty million pound scheme which will very substantially increase the number of opportunities for the unemployed in Britain as a whole and in in particular . |
| 4 | The July 29 elections were preceded by a number of primary elections held on July 22 , reducing to 800 ( from over 2,400 ) the number of candidates for the People 's Great Hural . |
| 5 | Under the terms of Belau 's new electoral system the number of candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency had been narrowed to two through the holding of a first round elections on Sept. 22 , when incumbent President Ngiratkel Etpison was eliminated after finishing third with 24.8 per cent , behind Nakamura with 37.2 per cent and Toribiong with 37.9 per cent . |
| 6 | We are hoping to increase the number of classes for the elderly . |
| 7 | Yet , although the number of officials for every 2,000 head of population rose from one in the 1750s to about four in the 1850s , the proportion was still incomparably lower than that prevailing in the West . |
| 8 | His tabulator worked successfully , reducing the number of man-hours for the task by two-thirds . |
| 9 | His own analysis of government figures suggested that the number of prescriptions for the treatment of asthma had more than doubled to 27 million a year over the last decade . |
| 10 | The Iraqi newspaper Al-Iraq reported on Aug. 23 that the number of volunteers for the Popular Army had reached almost 5,000,000 . |
| 11 | In my local hospital in Withington , the number of beds for the elderly has decreased in the past few years from 140 beds to barely 20 . |