Example sentences of "[conj] [art] number [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the exact Ea copy number of the transgenic mice from other groups is not known , and/or the number of mice tested was not large . |
| 2 | Large geographical areas have thus been classified as being ‘ less favoured ‘ and individual farmers qualify for supplementary assistance no matter what their financial position may be or the number of farms which they own . |
| 3 | However , if the score is less than five , you will need to increase the amount of time spent or the number of times a week you practise it . |
| 4 | However , the grammar must be able to correctly distinguish word hypotheses or the number of paths will grow exponentially . |
| 5 | Once you are a policyholder , premiums will not be increased on account of age or the number of claims made . |
| 6 | During the night the police sealed off the hospital so that no one might know precisely who was wounded or the number of casualties . |
| 7 | Indeed at secondary level the timetable of the week seems to blind one to considerations of the length of a course : the number of periods in a week or six days is debated , rather than the length of a period or the number of hours in a course . |
| 8 | ‘ It does n't matter how beautiful the catalogue , how important the cause , how many people have been tortured in Iran or the number of pandas left in southern China , ’ says Paul Hawken of Smith & Hawken , a California gardening-supply service . |
| 9 | The need for the recommendation of a high-ranking scholar provided a control on the quality of the intake-as long , of course , as the scholar were reasonably honest-while the quantity could be controlled by altering a number of factors , for example , the period at which the regular investiture took place , the number of ceremonial occasions on which special investitures might occur or the number of students the holder of any given office might invest as Interesting , though extremely belated , attempts to control both the quality and the quantity of are represented by two decrees of the year 1715 , by which time the system had very nearly completely broken down . |
| 10 | In the case of a one-man company an independent auditor must be appointed , and if the registered capital exceeds 20 million forints or the number of members exceeds twenty-five or the number of employees on the average exceeds 200 , a supervisory board must also be created . |
| 11 | Where the system falls down , of course , is when someone changes their mind about the typeface that 's going to be used or the number of columns per page . |
| 12 | I 've lost count of the number of late-night movies we 've watched in this way or the number of dawns we 've seen together . ’ |
| 13 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 14 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 15 | Wordsworth , Blake , Chaucer , George Eliot , she knew well , but not the name of the capital of Chad or the number of trade union-sponsored MPs in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | In the case of a one-man company an independent auditor must be appointed , and if the registered capital exceeds 20 million forints or the number of members exceeds twenty-five or the number of employees on the average exceeds 200 , a supervisory board must also be created . |
| 17 | The base of the notation , or the number of characters in the character set . |
| 18 | In most cases there is no limit on the number of individual models , or the number of units , other than that imposed by the points values . |
| 19 | In most cases there is no limit on the number of individual models , or the number of units , other than that imposed by the points values . |
| 20 | In most cases there is no limit on the number of individual models , or the number of units , other than that imposed by the points values . |
| 21 | For example , if Keith destroys ten brick towers and stabs six dolls with a plastic sword during his play therapy and subsequently attacks only one child during one day at nursery school , are we to record the number of towers , the number of stabs or the number of attacks ? |
| 22 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 23 | What is most important is how classes are taught and how a school manages its teaching staff , rather than the actual number employed or the number of pupils per class . |
| 24 | The indicators that are traditionally used are the money spent on health care or the number of health workers per head of population . |
| 25 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 26 | It 's not yet clear whether the size of garden or the number of rooms with taps would be taken into account . |
| 27 | Rather than on the single channel current or the number of channels . |
| 28 | There was no significant correlation between the improvements in bone mineral density and the patients age or the number of years postmenopause . |
| 29 | NatWest refuses to disclose any figures for its Tessa accounts or the number of holders . |
| 30 | Where the number of shareholders is manageable , or the firm is undertaking the whole of the word processing , then it may be appropriate to arrange for mailing direct from the firm . |