Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do the accounts ( and the notes ) take up less than 30% of the overall number of pages ? |
| 2 | There were no representatives from Contact on any of these committees , although the group constituted almost one-third of the overall number of users at one of the centres and almost one-half at the other two . |
| 3 | Take the 7th root of the average number of paths through our mid class utterances in order to estimate the average number of words over each region of the intended word : |
| 4 | Table 6.4 below gives a series of n th root of the average number of paths for the mid-class , mixed and fine-class sets . |
| 5 | A member who made less than 10 per cent of the average number of dealings in the year immediately preceding the general meeting may not exercise his voting right . |
| 6 | Taking each of his subject categories in turn he divides the total annual issues by the number of books in the category to achieve a nominal figure of the average number of issues per book . |
| 7 | Change for the Angel was one of the increasing number of plays in the late Fifties and early Sixties to confront audiences with working-class culture . |
| 8 | It was followed in 1987 , by ‘ New Directions ’ and ‘ A Transition to Adulthood ’ , in recognition of the increasing number of students with severe learning difficulties in the former case , and of students with considerable physical disabilities in the latter . |
| 9 | Dr Berg has suggested that the spread of family-based cottage manufactures played a part in determining the low status and value of women 's work even though it , and that of the increasing number of children they produced , was both necessary for the manufacture and significant for family earnings . |
| 10 | The order stated that the border post had been closed for " security reasons " because of the increasing number of attacks on tourist convoys by " highway robbers " . |
| 11 | The costs of the increased number of endoscopies after sclerotherapy ( £235 ) are lessl than 10% of those associated with surgery . |
| 12 | Support staff , numerically increased in some areas , but threatened with further reductions in others , are able to reach only a minority of the estimated number of children in need of special attention . |
| 13 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 14 | Roh also visited Japan in May 1990 to mark the resolution of several outstanding issues between the two countries , including improvements in the position of the substantial number of Koreans resident in Japan , and the acknowledgment of Japanese remorse for the occupation of Korea between 1910 and 1945 [ see p. 37457 ] . |
| 15 | Martyn referred to Miller 's use of works by those better versed in scientific aspects of gardening , to whom due acknowledgment is given , and concluded with an appreciation of the author 's own industry : ‘ As to the practical part , he has given t is hardly anything but from his own knowledge and of the great number of plants mentioned in his book there are scarce any which he has not cultivated with his own hands . ’ |
| 16 | Depending on the type of stock , as indicated below , stock which is in excess of the relevant number of years ' usage should be provided against as follows : |
| 17 | By doing this , ‘ they have helped to set one area and one group of workers against another in the struggle to obtain a higher share of the inadequate number of jobs available . ’ |
| 18 | I am so convinced that this is a fact I often only half-fill the ‘ feeder so that I can cast more often and take advantage of the extra number of casts and splashes and those thirty-second deadly periods . |
| 19 | The second is that the person named in it was registered as the holder of the stated number of shares . |
| 20 | The special significance of this number is that a similar long-term cyclic pattern shows up in the record of the changing number of sunspots , modulating the stronger 11 year rhythm . |
| 21 | As we discussed in Chapter 2 three cases ( out of 114 ) had one-third of the total number of pages devoted to rape cases , while nine cases had over half . |
| 22 | This is ‘ % of the total number of researchers . |
| 23 | This is ‘ % of the total number of researchers . |
| 24 | Table 6.2 shows the number of addresses that have been allocated the stated number of records per address ( up to seven ) , and the percentage of the total number of records in the file that was successfully allocated by each of the six algorithms used by Kaimann . |
| 25 | The packing density referred to here is measured in terms of the total number of records , both in the prime and overflow areas , divided by the prime data storage capacity only . |
| 26 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 27 | In 1975 , one-third of the total number of members covered by occupational pension schemes were in schemes which had equal pension ages and they hoped that even without legislation this number would be increased by negotiation and voluntary agreement . |
| 28 | ( 4 ) Subject to subsection ( 9 ) and ( 13 ) below , a licensing board shall consist of not less than one-quarter of the total number of members of the district or islands council and in no case shall consist of less than five such members . |
| 29 | For each site the coins were divided up into different periods and expressed as a percentage of the total number of coins recovered . |
| 30 | These financial burdens are magnified in the absence of other important sources of finance , and it is hardly surprising to find 99 per cent of the total number of firms going bankrupt located in the small firm sector . |