Example sentences of "[noun pl] the number [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After only 40 doublings the number of cells is more than a trillion . |
| 2 | In some individual cases the number of items posted will decrease and in other cases there will be a change in the pattern of consumer spending , customers perhaps making use of private sector delivery services . |
| 3 | Weight is equal to a hundred times the number of engines . |
| 4 | The weight in kilograms is a hundred times the number of engines we 've got . |
| 5 | The weight of the lorry , see the lorry weighs something itself so its total weight when it 's got its load on is eight hundred plus a hundred times the number of engines on it . |
| 6 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
| 7 | But it does have seven times the number of homicides . |
| 8 | This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time . |
| 9 | This is something like twelve times the number of flights G-BEBP had carried out when the failure occurred . |
| 10 | This is four times the number of cases of AIDS actually reported to the WHO ( 501,272 to April 1992 ) . |
| 11 | Rotorway International reported that a number of aircraft had achieved , without sprocket bolt failure , many times the number of hours at which the bolt on this aircraft failed , but that several failures of these bolts had occurred at a life similar to that at which the failure occurred . |
| 12 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 13 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
| 14 | Using these in different combinations the number of phrases you could cope with is almost limitless . |
| 15 | For a trial distance of 50 steps the number of steps executed at the maximum is obtained by subtracting the steps executed during acceleration and deceleration . |
| 16 | Latest provisional figures for in-patients and day cases for September 1991 show that in the past six months the number of patients waiting over a year fell by 7 per cent . |
| 17 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 18 | In rats the number of cells increases rapidly in the four to six days before birth , and the proliferative compartment — the proportion of β cells able to replicate — is thought to fall from 10% during fetal life to 3% in young adulthood . |
| 19 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 20 | In many insects the number of veins is less than in the hypothetical type , and the reduction has been brought about by the degeneration or complete atrophy of a vein , or of one or more of its branches , or by the coalescence of adjacent veins . |
| 21 | Selwyn was the smallest of the colleges of the University , also its students lived in , and during my three years the number of students never exceeded 150 . |
| 22 | On the other hand , in the past few years the number of students in further education colleges in Wales has increased very considerably . |
| 23 | In the following years the number of papers rose , culminating in sixteen in 1988 ( during which Pons wrote 36 papers but still none relating to test-tube fusion ) . |
| 24 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
| 25 | In the last couple of years the number of connections for fax terminals alone has doubled , and is now around a million — and that 's just in the UK . |
| 26 | In recent years the number of initiatives have been increasing rapidly with development concentrated in deprived urban communities . |
| 27 | In February 1974 a mobile library service was inaugurated and at the end of its first ten years the number of books lent should have grown to nearly twenty times as many . |
| 28 | For the last three years the number of fires recorded during the Amazon burning season , July to October , has fallen , partly because of government action and partly because the economic slump has affected cattle ranchers and farmers . |
| 29 | Mr Milburn said latest figures showed that over the last three years the number of patients removed from waiting lists without having received treatment had increased 145pc . |
| 30 | These are the first answers given , but in reply to further questions the number of women making at least one negative reference increases to twenty-seven — sixty-eight per cent of the sample . |