Example sentences of "[adj] number of [noun pl] in " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A student attending a well directed breast clinic may personally see this number of patients in less than a month and be taught to make an accurate clinical assessment . |
| 9 | The vast range of camellias now available is revealed in the unusually high number of entries in the annual competition . |
| 10 | POVERTY and cuts in social security payments are linked to the high number of deaths in Britain each winter , campaigners will tell the Health Secretary , Virginia Bottomley , today . |
| 11 | The result was evident not only in a growing emigration movement but also in the disproportionately high number of Jews in the most radical political parties . |
| 12 | Erm , now bearing in mind that half the year has gone , or will have gone by the time anybody arrived here , erm it seemed to me that where I , my analysis of that situation was that if we were going to achieve our target times , erm , then the theory would seem to be that we ought to make , er , two appointments now , I E two appointments for half the year will be equivalent to one appointment for the year , and that will produce the number of investigative hours which roughly that the formula says we need to knock off the required number of complaints in the required number of times . |
| 13 | Sam would surely sacrifice a rotten old motor-bike to the cause , in exchange for his team being terrorized into swimming the required number of lengths in four minutes ? |
| 14 | Mr Yeltsin secured the required number of votes in his third attempt in four days , just as President Gorbachov flew off for a visit to Canada prior to his summit with President Bush in America . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | An above average number of companies in the computer , telecommunications and microelectronics sectors appear in the lists of Queen 's Awards to Industry , published this morning . |
| 17 | The average number of conscripts in training has fallen from 80,000 to about 15,000 . |
| 18 | The figures included in the Jockey Club report show that , by the end of the year , the average number of horses in training will have fallen by 1,963 ( 16.2 per cent ) since 1990 , with significant reductions in both four-year-olds and jump horses . |
| 19 | If the average number of keys in the inverted file records is A then : since the total number of terms in both the original and inverted files must be equal . |
| 20 | Average number of students in class , 12 . |
| 21 | Over the past year our average number of trainees in the workshop has been 106 . |
| 22 | The average number of employees in each week during the period was : |
| 23 | In the Irish general election of February 1987 the average number of candidates in the fifteen five-member constituencies was 14.3 . |
| 24 | The calculation of loss per share is based on 708,790,691 shares for 1992 being the weighted average number of shares in issue during the year ended 31 December 1992 ( 1991 : 708,759,748 ) . |
| 25 | This is divided by the weighted average number of shares in issue calculated as 184,877,623 ( 1992 184,459,363 ) to give basic earnings per ordinary share of 27.1 pence ( 1992 26.0 pence as restated ) . |
| 26 | The language of the Code is taken to constitute the major premise so that Lord Herschell said in Bank of England v Vagliano Brothers [ 1891 ] AC 107 : " [ T ] he law should be ascertained from interpreting the language used instead of , as before , roaming over a vast number of authorities in order to discover what the law was … " ( p145 ) . |
| 27 | There are also a vast number of chemicals in food which have been recently introduced , the effects of which are unknown . |
| 28 | Allegations about racial harassment simmer away in the background , unhelped by the tiny number of non-whites in police forces up and down the country . |
| 29 | Far too many of them , however , soon started to produce technical problems of one kind or another which almost immediately swamped the tiny number of experts in organic materials who were available at the Royal Aircraft Establishment . |
| 30 | In a rights issue the purchaser offers to its existing shareholders the right to subscribe in cash for such number of shares in proportion to their existing holdings as will raise a sum ( after deduction of the rights issue costs ) equal to the consideration needed for the acquisition . |