Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of eggs a female lays , however , largely depends upon when she starts . |
| 2 | The number of prisoners a section has accumulated during a shift is used as a measure of performance and becomes one of the bases of competition between the sections . |
| 3 | Mitzi , who was Brown Owl 's assistant , told them when asked that there was no limit to the number of bridesmaids a bride could have , but that two or three was most usual , for various reasons that she explained . |
| 4 | As we saw in Chapter 10 , intermediate forms of imperfect competition require some economies of scale to limit the number of firms an industry can support . |
| 5 | The number of relatives a person may be expected to have is of importance to all students of kinship and the family in the past and in the present , and especially to those concerned with kinship support of the elderly . |
| 6 | Chapter 9 , however , relates to the special features within a markedly different environment of industrial relations in Third World , developing countries , where not only is the state the largest single employer and the number of wage-earners a small part of the economically active population , but in addition the trade unions perform a dual role . |
| 7 | Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring . |
| 8 | The conventional family division of labour not only reduces the number of hours a woman is available for paid work but also reduces the amount she could expect to earn per hour even in a non-discriminatory labour market . |
| 9 | The number of hours a week worked by juniors has come down by about 10 hours since the Labour party was in power . |
| 10 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The dilution factor : the number of times a sample of the odorous gas has to be diluted with odour-free air before 50 per cent of the panel of the six observers will just NOT detect an odour . |
| 13 | What does it profit us to list the number of times a mother rubs her baby 's back when we really want to know if she did it with affection or out of nervousness ? |
| 14 | It must not rely on the measurement of subjective impressions such as the number of times a child annoyed a parent ; it must be concerned with observable behaviour . |
| 15 | These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) . |
| 16 | To confine the interaction to what is known is the safest course , and there are limits to the number of times a teacher can reply — as primary teachers are encouraged to — ‘ I do n't know , but let's find out , shall we ? ’ without straining their credibility and frustrating their pupils . |
| 17 | A small button underneath the mouse can be pressed to reveal which channel it is set to by counting the number of times a neighbouring LED blinks . |
| 18 | The number of times a region was labelled as one of the above classes is shown as a percentage of the actual phonemes in the hand transcriptions . |
| 19 | The ability to determine this level , referred to as the ‘ odour threshold detection value ’ is provided by dilution techniques , the value itself representing the number of times an odour-bearing gas has to be diluted with clear air before 50 per cent of a panel of sniffers will just not detect it . |
| 20 | In the singulative mode there is a balance between the number of times an event occurs and the number of times it is narrated ( an event occurring once is narrated once and an event occurring x times is narrated x times ) . |
| 21 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 22 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 23 | Now since the number of waves a second is unlimited , this would mean that the total energy radiated would be infinite . |
| 24 | Reform groups have called for drastic measures , perhaps following California 's lead in limiting the number of terms a politician can serve in office . |
| 25 | However , the number of messages a horse conveys by sound alone is probably relatively limited . |
| 26 | Many of the refugees say that the restrictions on the number of children a family may have , now being enforced by the Chinese government with particular vigour , is the reason for their flight . |
| 27 | Southern California is moving towards replacing petrol with methanol , and — an important first — limiting the number of cars a family may own ; even insisting on radial tyres because they produce less dust . |
| 28 | One might suppose that the greater that number , the greater also the number of votes a party ought to receive . |
| 29 | A number of these are entirely legitimate and cause great excitement among devotees , who will be found anxiously scanning the title of Pickwick to see whether Sam Weller 's name on the inn sign-board is spelt with a W or a V ; and , indeed , that particular work is notorious for the number of points a copy needs to score before emerging triumphant . |
| 30 | It established mechanisms to ensure that the limits set by LEAs or governors on the number of pupils a maintained school admits are not lower than the school is physically capable of accommodating , normally the number admitted in 1979 , when school rolls were at their highest . |