Example sentences of "for [art] number [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that nothing is more insulting to women — whether it is said by women or men — than talk of setting targets for the number of women to be in top posts ? |
| 2 | Now when it asks you for the sample statement , ah done it , right before , it will ask you for the sample statement er over what period would you like to estimate this equation , right instead of pressing the return key which gives you the default , right , if you specify nineteen twenty three to nineteen forty sorry just a a dash between it like that nineteen twenty three space nineteen forty okay it asks you for the number of observations to be used in the structural stability tests , right , erm if you er press the default er if you press the return key then it should give you the maximum number available right five observations in this case right and then it will perform the regression over the entire sample period , those will be the results you obtain , right , it will also er present Chow erm test statistics . |
| 3 | The ‘ doubling time ’ , defined as the taken for the number of theses per year to double , is somewhere between 12 and 15 years , so that within the 24 years covered by the present study , the population has only doubled once . |
| 4 | For the number of biomorphs in the land is half a trillion , and if no one of them is any more probable as a destination than any other , the odds of jumping to any particular one are small enough to ignore . |
| 5 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 6 | Statistics for the number of recipients of all benefits are not collected on a regional basis . |
| 7 | The autoradiograph was analysed by densitometry , the area under each trace was calculated and the values corrected for the number of methionines in each protein . |
| 8 | Birmingham City 's Peter Crawford , who claimed a ‘ school record ’ for the number of suspensions from Mirfield Secondary School , was taken , along with other pupils , to the then Aston Manor Club ( now Aston Villa ABC ) by ‘ a school teacher called Kane who 'd boxed for Ireland at one stage ’ . |
| 9 | Since we can not see how many , we will let the letter $ stand for the number of sweets in the box . |
| 10 | Find a transformation suitable for the number of people per doctor . |
| 11 | A widely used measure which does to some extent standardize for the number of people in the household is ‘ Relative Net Resources ’ ( RNR ) . |
| 12 | On the other hand , different types of household have very different incomes , even after standardizing for the number of people in the household and including all sources of income : households of elderly women living alone are poorer than other types of household . |
| 13 | I think that , more , not sort of say a general question like that , but say that after the collection has happened that you want returns for the number of people in Oxford that have benefited from the number of groups in Oxford that have benefited . |
| 14 | While British Standards ( BSi ) sets minimum requirements for the number of facilities for men and women , the provision of public lavatories is the responsibility of local authorities , so it differs from area to area . |
| 15 | The user has specified a value for the number of items in the named list which exceeds the valid range . |
| 16 | The interest rate quoted is applied to the principal for the number of days of the advance divided by 365 if this is a domestic UK sterling deal ( 360 days for Eurosterling and most currencies ) , and the interest is repaid together with the principal at the maturity date . |
| 17 | We will assume highly conservative figures for the number of households in 1995 and hold this number steady for the year 2000 . |
| 18 | ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said . |
| 19 | This relationship stands after adjustment for a number of factors including age , left ventricular function , radiological findings and exercise-induced ST changes and duration . |
| 20 | In the report CNP calls for a number of proposals including — abandoning the 1998 deadline for renewable energy subsidies ; enabling grants to run for 15 years from the start of any one project ; issuing planning policy guidance on how to deal with planning applications , and giving encouragement to offshore wind generation which they claim could provide 50% of energy needs . |
| 21 | Margaret inspected it and asked for a number of prints to be made . |
| 22 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
| 23 | Lorraine Gabriel , prosecuting , said Wennington received more than £260 for a number of hampers from the customer . |
| 24 | The woman , who will be scarred for life , was treated in hospital for a number of injuries including a 3in cut to her neck . |
| 25 | Previous convictions : both offenders had convictions for a number of offences including burglary , all dealt with summarily . |
| 26 | for a number of increase in employed . |
| 27 | While many hitherto disinterested onlookers could , perhaps , stomach the loss of several insect species ( even dragonflies and butterflies ) , there were few who were not moved by the prospect of extermination for a number of species of birds . |
| 28 | Institute Council member John Corrin spoke for a number of members in business when he said that ‘ after Cadbury , it is one of the daftest papers I have ever read ’ . |
| 29 | The Minister of Agriculture assumed direct responsibility for a number of services between 1937 and 1944 , and in the post-war years local authorities lost their hospitals to the National Health Service ( NHS ) and their gas and electricity undertakings to nationalised boards . |
| 30 | If we could do this for a number of stars in the same galaxy , and our calculations always gave the same distance , we could be fairly confident of our estimate . |