Example sentences of "the [det] number of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at that stage in the design process that he has the greatest opportunity to explore , and the least number of constraints . |
| 2 | However , it does have the least number of extras supplied with it , so it is basic in that sense . |
| 3 | Efficiency could be measured in terms of speed of performance , the least amount of storage required or the least number of program lines . |
| 4 | Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ? |
| 5 | Arrange the substitution items into groups with the same number of syllables , and as far as possible the same CV pattern , and the same length and stress pattern . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 9 | While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux . |
| 10 | The the exam , for part of your assessment will be in much the same form it 'll be in two parts er recreating to the two parts of the course and , yo , you 'll get roughly the same number of questions as the than the essay questions that you have with each each semester . |
| 11 | Does each answer describe the same number of students ? |
| 12 | Isotopes of an element have the same number of protons in the nucleus — and hence the same chemical properties — but different numbers of neutrons , and thus have slightly different masses . |
| 13 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 14 | As with all my ablutions , the shave follows a definite and predetermined pattern ; I take the same number of strokes of the same length in the same sequence each morning . |
| 15 | A normal domestic TV using the same LC technology with the same number of pixels — now 10 times larger — would be unacceptable to the consumer despite its feasibility . |
| 16 | By contrast , the number density of the ions and electrons falls in proportion to the square of the distance from the Sun , because roughly the same number of ions ( and electrons ) is being spread over a growing spherical area centred on the Sun . |
| 17 | Where data have a hierarchical structure or where units do not all have the same number of variates recorded ( due , for example , to different numbers of visits to a clinic ) , the more elaborate structure of a database will be needed . |
| 18 | A number of other areas of the curriculum — art and craft , PE , music , CDT , computers , dance and so on — were given comparatively little time , amounting to the same number of teacher-days between them as were spent on science alone . |
| 19 | Gloucester Collection ( Gloucester ) In addition to numerous estate records , the collection includes the Dancey Gift of works relating to the county ( 225 volumes , more than 300 pamphlets , almost the same number of prints and paintings ) . |
| 20 | In Scotland , sanitary waste made the biggest impact — 38 individual items were found per kilometre , compared with 27 plastic bottles and the same number of cans , and five plastic six-pack holders . |
| 21 | These generally refer to finding a self-indexing function for tables in main storage ; Jaeschke has developed a method originally proposed by Cichell , and he has shown that , however complicated the key sequence is , a self-indexing function can be found for up to 40 keys so that they fit exactly into a table with the same number of storage positions . |
| 22 | Let us imagine , for the sake of illustration , a company being able to change its production process so that it can produce the same number of widgets but with half the number of people . |
| 23 | The Pentium , explained Ian Pearson , director of Inmos 's Transputer Business Unit , is 30% bigger though it has the same number of transistors . |
| 24 | The Pentium , explained Ian Pearson , director of Inmos 's Transputer Business Unit , is 30% bigger though it has the same number of transistors . |
| 25 | Northcliffe had a bigger share of Fleet Street morning circulation in 1910 ( 39 per cent ) than Murdoch in 1989 ( 35 per cent ) and the same number of titles ( three ) ( Negrine , 1989 , p. 72 ) . |
| 26 | When interlining curtains , you will need the same number of widths of fabric as your outer curtain , but no allowance for patterns , hems or headings is necessary . |
| 27 | Cut out the same number of widths of interlining to the finished curtain length . |
| 28 | Paykel ( 1979 ) describes his research in New Haven in which the life experiences of 185 depressed patients receiving hospital treatment were compared with the experiences of a random sample of the same number of adults in the general population over a six month period . |
| 29 | Nippon Denso has bought a 53 acre green field site on the edge of rural Shropshire ; by 1995 a brand new plant should be producing 400,000 car heaters and the same number of air conditioners per year . |
| 30 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |