Example sentences of "[v-ing] the number [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 2 | Otherwise it is n-ary , with the value of ‘ n ’ equalling the number of entities . |
| 3 | He has also been a member of the actuarial profession 's working party on AIDS and developed a model suitable for forecasting the number of AIDS cases in the UK . |
| 4 | The association has avoided naming the number of councils it considers to be feasible . |
| 5 | Note : For Random Access media , there is no penalty for overestimating the number of blocks value as it is possible for LIFESPAN to detect when the media is full . |
| 6 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 7 | In addition sectarian killings resumed following the collapse of the Brooke initiative [ see p. 38402 ] and in September a Sinn Féin councillor was shot dead , bringing the number of killings in 1991 in Northern Ireland to 59 [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 8 | Estonia joined the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) on Jan. 31 , bringing the number of members to 136 [ see p. 38267 ] . |
| 9 | By that date 116 of 720 existing bases in western Germany would be closed , bringing the number of personnel stationed in that part of the country to 310,000 . |
| 10 | Sao Tomé and Príncípe acceded to the IMO Convention on July 9 , 1990 , bringing the number of member states to 134 ( 133 after the unification in May 1990 of Yemen ) . |
| 11 | The November results gave the locally based Union pour la démocratie et le développement à Mayumba its first seat , bringing the number of parties represented in the new parliament to eight . |
| 12 | As a result a further five political parties decided to withdraw from legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 26 , bringing the number of parties boycotting the elections to 21 . |
| 13 | In the Gaza Strip soldiers shot dead three Palestinians , bringing the number of deaths there in recent days to 11 . |
| 14 | Until 1910 organized labour protest was subdued but as the industrial boom gathered pace , bringing the number of workers in mining and large-sale industry to over three million by 1914 , the relative industrial calm was broken . |
| 15 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 16 | Where there has been suggestion that the new ‘ basic cycle ’ will involve shortening the number of years available to children ( in Sierra Leone , the 1973/1974 Educational Review originally suggested a two year cut from 7 to 5 years ) the reaction has been vehement . |
| 17 | The bigram matrix is stored as a 1-dimensional array of length ( 109 * 109 ) , reflecting the number of tags in the tagset . |
| 18 | It has been argued that factors in medical organisation , such as the use of deputies , may be more important than variations in patient demand in shaping the number of night visits . |
| 19 | Alias will provide on-site engineering resources at Industrial Light , potentially tripling the number of Alias users via a site-wide software licence . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | a careful reading of this study ( Carr-Hill and Stern ) shows that the authors never carried out the test in question … but instead test the contribution of unemployment to explaining the number of police per capita in each area . |
| 22 | Relating the number of customers of , say , a bank or building society branch to the size of the population in a media or postal area will give a much more accurate measure of the effectiveness of local promotion if the new census figures are used , rather than the latest population estimates . |
| 23 | ( One does n't make a mild curry hot just by upping the number of chillies . ) |
| 24 | A function returning the number of characters sent to the display since the last new line . |
| 25 | Reduce the average branching factor by keeping the number of arcs spanning n(1,2) , n(2,3) , and n(3,4) low and thus limit the combinatorial explosion of paths . |
| 26 | He crossed to the VDU on his other desk and punched in a series of numbers , checking the number on Bryce 's file . |
| 27 | These feature informative biogs detailing the number of kills and the preferred method of working as well as the gruesome details of their sicko frenzies . |
| 28 | It is surprising the number of skills machine knitters have besides using their machines . |
| 29 | It is necessary for you to take this kind of positive approach ; think in terms of maximizing the number of nutrients that you derive from food by eating the right kind of balance of different foods during meals . |
| 30 | About three-quarters of pupils in the lowest third knew how many days there are in certain months , although a number of pupils when interviewed said they had not been taught by their parents or at school any way of remembering the number of days in the months . |