Example sentences of "[prep] the number of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Subsequent appeals to the courts by disappointed students led the federal government to devise complex formulas that fix minima for the number of students each university department must take . |
| 32 | Almost as hard to credit , the figure for the number of nuclear explosions set off by the French in the Pacific since 1975 was said to be 52 . |
| 33 | There were , of course , many participants in this discussion , but Bukharin and Preobrazhensky stand out not only for the number of contributions they made but also because of the quality of these interventions . |
| 34 | He had become increasingly unhappy about the trackway theory , feeling it to be insufficient to account for the number of leys which seemed to exist , the tendency for parallel systems , the intersection of many leys at a single site , and the phenomenon which he discovered of patterns of concentric circles . |
| 35 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
| 36 | President Theodore Roosevelt holds the record for the number of hands shaken at an official function ? |
| 37 | Only trial and error will teach you the exact amount needed for the number of babies you have . |
| 38 | If we write x i j for the number of items sent from i to j , the problem can be written as an LP . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | A number of these are entirely legitimate and cause great excitement among devotees , who will be found anxiously scanning the title of Pickwick to see whether Sam Weller 's name on the inn sign-board is spelt with a W or a V ; and , indeed , that particular work is notorious for the number of points a copy needs to score before emerging triumphant . |
| 41 | Various statistical sources giving figures for the number of receivers show the country as having 120,000 sets . |
| 42 | As a result , the walls built so far in Scotland have proved inadequate for the number of people using them . |
| 43 | ‘ Such an antiquity , ’ he wrote , ‘ is necessary to account for the number of animal forms it possesses , which show no relation to those of India or Australia . ’ |
| 44 | A widely used measure which does to some extent standardize for the number of people in the household is ‘ Relative Net Resources ’ ( RNR ) . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | No figures were available for the number of works sold and the total turnover , but according to the organisers , the majority of participants were satisfied with the results : Connaught Brown sold all their Lucian Freud etchings ; the Salzburg gallery from Weihergut , Austria sold their entire stock . |
| 47 | 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 ’ . |
| 48 | That belief must have accounted for the number of those wanting to see him and the fevered state of his waiting-room . |
| 49 | Merely to stand in such a position will give you some idea of the strain such a position exerts on the groin and accounts for the number of injuries Wasim has incurred in that region . |
| 50 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 51 | The spectre of listing was blamed earlier this year for the number of important works of art from historic collections to have come onto the London market over a short period . |
| 52 | My career since 1982 has been remarkable for the number of men who have harboured exactly those prejudices that Smith speaks of — that is , that you ca n't do science and medicine and have children . |
| 53 | There is a clear trend for the number of older people reporting a home visit to increase with age from 18 per cent of those aged 65 — 69 to 62 per cent of those aged 85 + ( Figure 7.11 ) . |
| 54 | The single , simple reason for the biography 's size is that , in the effort to come up with what , if only for the number of facts it contains , must rank as definitive , Ackroyd has scoured not just every imaginable source but also quite a few unimaginable ones as well . |
| 55 | The official census gives the figures for the number of Chinese Muslims as fifteen million but independent estimates put it at between 30 and 40 million . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Of course it 's not a blank year for the hard pressed voters of Harlow because they 're all voting in the county council elections then for the , for the number of , for the , for the er county councillors who represent at Harlow erm at County Hall in Chelmsford . |
| 58 | Since we can not see how many , we will let the letter $ stand for the number of sweets in the box . |
| 59 | ( Let c stand for the number of balls . ) |
| 60 | But the best official estimates for the number of lone-parent families in 1981 suggest that there were in fact some 900 000 such families in Great Britain ( see Haskey , 1986 , who indicates that an estimate of 825 000 lone-parent families for 1978 was given to Parliament in 1981 ) . |