Example sentences of "[adj] number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1982–83 nearly 800 children in England and Wales were made the subject of care orders as a result of divorce or other family proceedings and the cumulative number of children in care as a result of such orders was more than 7000 , costing approximately £400 million a year ( Family Courts Campaign , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | The rate is proportional to the derivative of the cumulative number of publications in a field , from the time of its origin . |
| 3 | A bird in the hand is never worth an infinite number of birds in the bush . |
| 4 | The interpretation of these observations , based on theory , is that there is actually an infinite number of changes like that from ( a ) to ( b ) or from ( b ) to ( c ) . |
| 5 | But even more , the student should come to understand that there are an infinite number of frameworks with which to describe the world ; and that none has any binding claim over the others . |
| 6 | To Malebranche , for example , it appeared not unreasonable that there were an infinite number of trees in a single seed ; this , he argued , would only seem extravagant to those who measured God 's powers by their own imagination . |
| 7 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 8 | The energies of all the infinite number of degrees of freedom would cause the apparent mass and charge of the electron to become infinite . |
| 9 | [ That would correspond to the ordered n-tuple unc I With a little care one can even have an infinite number of terms on the right hand side . |
| 10 | The fundamental problem confronting process measurement is that there is energy transfer taking place at what is effectively an infinite number of points in space and in time . |
| 11 | ( At one point it was commented that ‘ There are an infinite number of ways of organising our file references , and most of them have been used already ! ’ ) |
| 12 | There is no absolute way of describing or engaging with the world ; only an infinite number of ways of doing so . |
| 13 | There are an infinite number of ways of dividing it up ; indeed , there are an infinite number of ways of dividing it up systematically . |
| 14 | There are an infinite number of ways of dividing it up ; indeed , there are an infinite number of ways of dividing it up systematically . |
| 15 | For example unc In general , any singular matrix of order n and rank r is expressible in an infinite number of ways as the product of two matrices of order ( n × r ) and ( r × n ) , since r is the number of independent columns ( and rows ) . |
| 16 | There were an infinite number of ways in which the investigating magistrate could compromise or embarrass a police officer , whereas having the judiciary on your side was an invaluable asset . |
| 17 | Every year a bank statement informs us that the Trust has lopped a mildly painful number of pounds from our far from princely pensions and every year we wonder whether we should continue to belong or not . |
| 18 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 19 | If you do not like the idea of an infinite number you must still recognize that there must be some number of moments of slug pleasure which would outweigh any finite amount of joy on the earth . |
| 20 | Actually , I I think you 're all aware of , that we caused some number of issues on that Wednesday afternoon and for that half of our systems . |
| 21 | Although he spent a comparatively few number of years as a painter , it is for his paintings that his name is known worldwide . |
| 22 | Part of this study involved 2 number of case-studies of Access courses , and within these data was gathered on the performance of former Access students in higher education . |
| 23 | To this catalogue of inflectional variations he added a generous number of illustrations of the initial mutations . |
| 24 | However , this need not be the case , and there are situations in which a spread with a different number of contracts in each leg may be preferable . |
| 25 | The most striking feature of the rotor is that it has a different number of teeth to the stator ; the example of Fig.1.5 has four rotor teeth . |
| 26 | There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents . |
| 27 | This is the standard number of rows found between the cables , but while you are working a test piece you might like to experiment with dimensions to see if a different number of rows between cables might suit your work better . |
| 28 | The effect of connectivity can be assessed by calculating the entropy change associated with the different number of ways of arranging polymer chains and solvent molecules on a lattice and , as it will be demonstrated , this differs from that calculated for the ideal solution . |
| 29 | To some degree the decreasing number of workers on the typical farm makes this close personal contact inevitable . |
| 30 | It may also have been the case that magistrates were less willing to overturn the appeals of disappointed claimants , since they were well enough aware that the increasing burden of relief was being thrown on to a decreasing number of shoulders as the proportion of the village populations either needing assistance or at least no longer able to pay poor rates increased . |