Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cavaye recommends that caterers buy an extra 10% to 15% more than the number of covers on main items like knives , forks and spoons , double the number for teaspoons and a little over half for fish knives . |
| 2 | At a macro level the decisions could involve the option of a reduction in the number of teachers and the closing of some schools , which keeps the cost per child constant and reduces total expenditure ; or the improvement of educational standards through reducing the number of pupils per teacher and therefore increasing unit costs . |
| 3 | Potentially , RISC programs may have an even larger number of calls since the complex instructions found in CISCs are subroutines in RISC I. Thus the procedure call must be as short as possible , perhaps only a few jumps . |
| 4 | Broadly speaking , the increase in the postsynaptic response generated at potentiated synapses could be due to ( 1 ) presynaptic modifications which result in an increase in the amount of L-glutamate released per impulse , ( 2 ) postsynaptic modifications , such as an increase in the number of receptors or a change in their functional characteristics , ( 3 ) an extrasynaptic change , such as a reduction in uptake of L-glutamate by glial cells leading to increased neurotransmitter availability at the receptors , or ( 4 ) morphological modifications . |
| 5 | Thus , even if space is left within and at the end of each index , updating will involve the shifting and shuffling of a number of records or the use of pointers and links to the new records . |
| 6 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 7 | In another school the project became subsumed within a major review of the lower-school curriculum , and , as we have seen above , in School G the project gave birth to a completely new initiative , providing a mutual focus for the distinct aspirations of a number of departments and a shared resource base for more closely integrated interdisciplinary work . |
| 8 | If actually implemented , the plan would involve the largest UN force ever deployed , with up to 10,000 troops and an equivalent number of civilians and an estimated cost of £1,500 million ( approximately US$2,918 million ) . |
| 9 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 10 | It is true because Wirral , as a suburban borough with an interesting and extensive coastline , an impressive green belt , some extremely affluent townships , a large number of owner-occupiers and a thriving private schools sector , does have the look and feel of a very well-heeled community . |
| 11 | Certainly the number of offspring that a male may sire as a result of reciprocating coalitions will be greater than if he did not participate , while his lifespan is probably only slightly affected by such activity . |
| 12 | Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk . |
| 13 | The consequence of this is that clearing banks have a very large number of accounts but the average size of the accounts is comparatively small . |
| 14 | I can tell you you 're in for some trouble if you start that because I I is you you 're all in trouble if you want to start these smaller committees , we have looked at the committees and as I say we make no apology for the number of committees or the number that 's on 'em . |
| 15 | In 1958 , Doisneau was photographing a shepherd and his flock when a lorry careered out of control , killing a number of sheep and the shepherd 's two dogs . |
| 16 | We 've had a number of quotations and a number of reports here . |
| 17 | As Robert Sklar has suggested , there was no such thing as a typical depression movie ; rather there were a number of formats and an emphasis on production standards and conventions , but now in this new post-1933 dispensation there tended to be far less experimentation . |
| 18 | Er and we 're identifying that the clerical sections are required to do a certain number of things when the project arrives , like erm recording the project in the index book , creating a correspondence file , creating project admin wallets , and the like . |
| 19 | The first is inbuilt , or morphological colour , which depends on the number of chromatophores and the different pigments they contain . |
| 20 | No theme is ever omitted , but one of the individually distinctive aspects of the song is the number of times that a particular phrase is repeated . |
| 21 | He had , of course , the eternal delusion of strong young men , that women gauge passion by counting the number of times that the assault is renewed in the course of a single night . |
| 22 | One could predict the approximate number of times that the result would be A or B , but one could not predict the specific result of an individual measurement . |
| 23 | The File Revision Number is the number of times that the file has been opened for ‘ write ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ As a concession , ministers should increase the payment period to at least four weeks to reduce the number of times that the restriction is triggered by absences ’ , he said . |
| 25 | Each song was repeated a number of times until the audience had learned the tune , then copies of it were offered for sale . |
| 26 | The axes of the graph are the number of specimens and the number of dies . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 29 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 30 | We note your concerns regarding an increase in the number of berths and a consequent increase in the movement of craft in the vicinity of Port Edgar . |