Example sentences of "as the number of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysis of the structure of households can provide indicators of shortage such as the number of families doubling up , and show changing patterns of housing needs . |
| 2 | As the number of tenants of each sex was to be the same , Agnes Bolton and Margaret Tinkler were also chosen . |
| 3 | If true , we might expect male peeking rates to increase as the number of females in the flock increase . |
| 4 | The data in table 5.9 show that bond enthalpies increase as the number of bonds between two atoms decreases . |
| 5 | It is normally expressed as the number of grams per mole . |
| 6 | As the number of species studied increases the simple classification into adaptive grades begins to break down as the variance within species and between species begins to exceed that between the categories described as grades . |
| 7 | Second , three of the variables incorporated into it have negative signs , indicating that as the number of pixels of these types increases , so population decreases . |
| 8 | In addition it was found that as the number of choices which could be made , when choosing the cards , increased by a factor of 2 ( another bit of information was required ) , the time required for the brain to make this choice increased at a constant rate . |
| 9 | It is usually expressed as the number of moles of solute in one litre ( that is , one cubic decimetre ) of solution : where n(X) denotes the amount of solute X , Vdenotes the volume of solution and [ X ] denotes the concentration of solute X in solution . |
| 10 | Molality can be expressed as the number of moles of solute in one kilogram of solvent . |
| 11 | This increased as agriculture grew more intensive , and as the number of livestock and the application of fertilizer has been increased . |
| 12 | This may be information such as the number of strokes used , the order in which the strokes are written , the direction of the writing , and even the speed of the writing for each stroke . |
| 13 | But the effective address is then used , not to specify a store location , but as subsidiary information for the operation to be performed ( such as the number of bits to be shifted ) . |
| 14 | We have seen the subsidiary information field as providing parameters needed by an operation , such as the number of bits to be shifted or the length of an operand . |
| 15 | It must be expressed as the number of periods . |
| 16 | The level of natural unemployment can be defined as the number of persons who are unemployed even when the labour market is in an equilibrium state : that is , when the total demand for labour is equal to the supply of labour at the prevailing level of real wage rates . |
| 17 | As the number of states contractually linked to the Soviet Union in this manner increased , it became apparent that Moscow hoped to construct a network of loose understandings on military security with Third World states and establish Soviet relations with them on a firmer institutional basis . |
| 18 | As the number of transactions per time period falls the understatement increases ; for example , for ten transactions per time period the understatement is about 49% . |
| 19 | Such lists as were drawn up by James are now thought to contain deliberate inaccuracies in details , such as the number of pages in certain books , thus enabling James to remove and offer pages from illuminated Qur'ans on the international market . |
| 20 | On a much more ambitious scale , Lindsay and Paton-Saltzberg ( 1987 ; see Table 6.2 ) analysed data from 36,984 student assessments in arts , social studies , science and applied areas , to show that the frequency of high grades decreases and that of lower grades incl-eases as the number of students enrolled on a module increases . |
| 21 | Although the section will be relatively small to start with ( because the number of students involved in pilots is only a small proportion of all those taking Advanced Courses ) , over the next few years more staff will move across from traditional examination work to work on quality assurance as the number of students in validated courses grows larger . |
| 22 | And as the number of women appointed to the judiciary increases , we feel certain that the definition developed will be in the best interests of the victim ’ |
| 23 | As the number of fossils increased , more and more examples of fairly continuous fossil sequences were discovered , allowing paleontologists to analyse the historical development of some groups with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 24 | This calculation is based on various factors , such as the number of school children , miles of roads to be maintained , police and fire service requirements , etc. in each local authority . |
| 25 | As the number of companies leading the law-breaking campaign is small , he has a viable means of enforcing the law but he refused to do so — |
| 26 | A measure of the errors was agreed as the number of errors expressed as a percentage of the number of drawings issued . |
| 27 | Factors such as the number of letters different , and word length are often involved . |
| 28 | Other studies have used ‘ strike activity ’ ( such as the number of stoppages due to industrial action ) as an indicator of militancy . |
| 29 | One way to handle different bit mapping schemes is to include in the header details such as the number of bit planes , bits per pixel , pixels per scan line , and the number of scan lines . |
| 30 | Note that as the number of users specified at this keyword increases so does the USER DETAILS data transfer time and the response time of the USER DETAILS related views . |