Example sentences of "[adj] number [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high number of injuries the bombers clearly hoped for were averted by the caution of the police . |
| 2 | Of course some pound notes may be used more frequently than others , and some may not be used at all , but the velocity of circulation measures the average number of times a unit of currency is used . |
| 3 | Irving Fisher 's version of the quantity theory can be explained in terms of the following ‘ equation of exchange ’ : where M is the nominal stock of money in circulation and V is the transactions velocity of circulation of money ( that is , the average number of times the given quantity of money changes hands in transactions ) ; P is the average price of all transactions and T is the number of transactions that take place during the time period . |
| 4 | Notice that k is the reciprocal of the income velocity of circulation of money ( which can be defined as the average number of times the money supply changes hands in financing the national income ) . |
| 5 | ( The fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would have if she lived to the end of her child-bearing years and bore children at the prevailing rate for each age during that period . ) |
| 6 | This measures the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced the prevailing age pattern of childbearing throughout her reproductive lifetime . |
| 7 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 8 | Even if you had a single gene which is terribly important , erm because human beings are complex everything they do is affected by large numbers of genes a number of examples that contradict that . |
| 9 | In order to foster the feeling of family among such large numbers of staff the first edition of ‘ Laura Ashley News ’ was launched . |
| 10 | Moreover , for large numbers of individuals the new per capita charge represented a considerable increase over their equivalent share of the rates which had hitherto been based on notional values of the homes which they occupied . |
| 11 | On a large number of matches the extra few fish that this may put in their net will not make any difference between winning or losing , but it may affect the deficit or margin by which they win or lose . |
| 12 | In a large number of cases the egg would develop quite normally into a swimming tadpole and then an adult toad . |
| 13 | In a large number of cases the cover will be restricted to ‘ third party ’ only which is still within the requirements of section 145 above , at ( B ) 7 . |
| 14 | In a large number of cases the licence is issued to a firm , i.e. a limited company , then the company secretary is liable for the misuse of the trade plate on behalf of the company . |
| 15 | As we have seen , in a large number of colonies the authorities had been involved in publishing newspapers , Using both the colonial and local languages , they had tried to put over the official point of view , often in an attempt to forestall or counter alternative interpretations and opinions . |
| 16 | A large number of firms the Joint Monitoring Unit visited last year are failing to meet one or more of its criteria for good audit procedures , according to the first annual review of audit regulation . |
| 17 | But it is evident that publishers , to stay in business , need to bring out a large number of titles every year . |
| 18 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 19 | Mr Kinnock 's voice was choked with emotion as , refusing to concede defeat , he said : ‘ Even now as the recounts are going on in a very large number of seats the results of this election is not decided . ’ |
| 20 | Since there is a large number of nerves the number of possible combinations and sequences of stimuli is enormous so it is possible for a system like that , in principle , to produce a very large number of possible reactions . |
| 21 | The move from ‘ arranged marriage ’ to ‘ marriage based on free choice ’ , as described in a Zhongguo Qingnian article ( 1988 , 5 : 27 ) was to be welcomed in many ways because a large number of graduates every year were wrongly placed . |
| 22 | A salesman who makes a large number of sales every day would probably prefer a weekly target to give him a continued sense of achievement . |
| 23 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
| 24 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 25 | For motors with a large number of phases the torque reduction at low speeds is less pronounced . |
| 26 | In a rather larger number of situations the authorities will have quite explicit duties but will not have been given detailed guidance on how to carry them out . |
| 27 | It produces a good number of peaches every August but the greenhouse is in desperate need of replacement and she does n't have to , want to have to put another one in that position so is there anything cheap , she says , that she could do to help the tree to survive and fruit in a large open garden in Preston in Lancashire without the greenhouse , Walter ? |
| 28 | The quota is the smallest number of votes the candidate has to get in order to be sure of getting a seat . |
| 29 | On a select number of occasions the licensing authority has decided not to disclose to the medical profession and patients the data behind reasons for its decisions — for example , those relating to Opren ( benoxoprofen ) and Halcion ( triazolam ) . |
| 30 | Even so , the margin for error is so huge that the upshot of the calculation remains valid : among the world 's population of E. coli , every possible mutation is occurring an enormous number of times a day . |