Example sentences of "small number [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X . |
| 2 | The quota is the smallest number of votes to allow five candidates to be elected and is just big enough to prevent the election of more than five . |
| 3 | This should mean that smaller numbers of students have access to a larger range of resources than formerly . |
| 4 | Specials organised by InterCity became geared towards smaller numbers of passengers paying premium fares for VIP treatment in Pullman standard coaches with catering of comparable quality . |
| 5 | The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively . |
| 6 | In 1983 , when a much smaller number of students completed IT Advanced Courses , 14 per cent were unemployed at the end of their courses ( 1 ) , a figure which halved in the following six months ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | Sampling saves time , labour and , therefore , money and by reducing the numbers of cases involved it allows for a concentration of effort on high quality information about the smaller number of cases involved . |
| 8 | This was because of the the smaller number of cases reported ( 99 by June 1984 , with 5 deaths ) and the fact that blame was laid mainly at the feet of absorbency , synthetic fibres and deodorising tampons ( much more common in the States than here ) . |
| 9 | A smaller number of studies have dealt with closely related dialects or languages , for example , Blom and Gumperz 's 1972 study of code-switching between " official " and " local " varieties of Norwegian in a small town . |
| 10 | A smaller number of techniques based on the polymerase chain reaction is available for the routine detection of known mutations . |
| 11 | Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence shows that the really notable change between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries was in the smaller number of people living in other people 's homes as servants or lodgers . |
| 12 | Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks . |
| 13 | The concentration of blast furnaces at a smaller number of plants meant that the rolling mills at Corby and Shotton , for example , would henceforth receive their raw steel from other parts of the country . |
| 14 | A proportion of CH 4 producers ( three of six in this study ) , however , may also harbour small numbers of sulphate reducing bacteria ( not detectable with the methods used in this study ) . |
| 15 | We could not grow CTL to 1s6 from all B53-positive donors during the low transmission season for malaria but , as previous work suggested , detectable CTL to P. falciparum may be relatively short-lived in the absence of boosting , and low precursor frequencies may be common because of the very small numbers of hepatocytes infected by each sporozoite inoculum . |
| 16 | The alert might recall that various groups have made unusual , tenuous ‘ crystals ’ out of small numbers of ions suspended in a magnetic field ; the pair of mercury ions in the new experiment constitutes the simplest such crystal . |
| 17 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 18 | The Lord Chancellor was also concerned at the small numbers of women becoming eligible for appointments . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it was impossible to make such measurements on individual theses in the present study , because of the small numbers of citations involved . |
| 20 | The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence . |
| 21 | The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence . |
| 22 | The system also provides the facility to transfer small numbers of entries chosen from any part of the dictionary to the typesetting contractor and to the Working-Set . |
| 23 | Small numbers of French had been parachuted into Indochina under SEAC auspices before the Japanese coup but a much larger and perhaps more effective intervention by the French Corps Léger d'Intervention , a specialist unit of some five hundred men recruited and waiting in Algeria , was frustrated for various nominal reasons ; the effective one being that the US , until the very last moment , was unalterably opposed to French units participating in the war against Japan , and especially , if this involved Vietnam . |
| 24 | Small numbers of Highlanders had been recruited to serve as scouts and guides and installed in four fortified barracks , each with a garrison of 30 . |
| 25 | A firm statement could not , however , be made because of the relatively small numbers of patients taking the individual NSAID with or without second line drugs in this study . |
| 26 | Because of the small numbers of patients studied , our findings are only preliminary . |
| 27 | Small numbers of patients aged less then 55 make interpretation of a sex effect in this group inappropriate . |
| 28 | These results have to be treated with some caution because of the small numbers of subjects involved ( though most studies have this limitation ) and the weaker effects for conditions ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 29 | Indeed the report says ‘ small numbers of households found that the combination of high motoring costs and acceptable levels of public transport such that they were simply not bothered about learning to drive , or getting a car . |
| 30 | Responses have to be shared , first , in the relative safety of small numbers in order to enable participants to build up confidence in coping with the frequently painful nature of talk about disruption . |