Example sentences of "number of [adj] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a system in a given state , the entropy is related to the number of distinguishable arrangements the components in that state can adopt , and can be calculated from the Boltzmann law , where W is the number of statistical microstates available to the system . |
| 2 | Microsoft is unlikely to build into the operating system the number of invaluable features the folks at Central Point have stuffed into PC Tools 8 . |
| 3 | At a number of North-Eastern stations a porter would spend half an hour every Saturday or Sunday releasing pigeons from individual baskets , according to the instructions on the label . |
| 4 | In a number of decided cases a landlord has been held to be acting reasonably in refusing consent in these circumstances : |
| 5 | Hence , by performing the joint operation on a number of inserted assemblies the whole machine contents can be recalled . |
| 6 | When Jack Hobbs was approaching W. G. Grace 's record for the number of first-class centuries the massive attention of the press actually caused him a brief loss of form . |
| 7 | The context of a bus timetable does increase the number of possible ways the question might be done ; on one occasion when a member of the research team gave the test informally to a class , one pupil said he had found his answer ( several hours ) by adding up the intervals between all of the stops . |
| 8 | From the mid nineteenth century , their number grew consistently faster than the number of suitable openings the backward economy could provide . |
| 9 | Rather than focusing on wage inflation , there are a number of short-term measures the government could adopt to encourage investment in training and equipment , without altering its fundamental anti-inflation policy . |
| 10 | In a number of other areas the national perspective was maintained either by mini projects which provided a framework within which colleges could operate and develop their units , or by SCOTVEC providing advice , assistance and initial leadership ( together with on-going administrative support ) for groups of colleges in consortium — so called Nationally Led Consortia . |
| 11 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 12 | LET YOUR MONEY DO THE WALKING The number of new residents a tax haven can accommodate is limited , but it can hold any amount of companies , trusts and offshore funds |
| 13 | But poll tax capping means cuts in County Council budgets , and that means substantial reductions in the number of new books the library can buy . |
| 14 | After a number of such pairings a particular pattern of input will come to evoke a selected output pattern , without the ‘ output pattern generator ’ being activated . |
| 15 | If I make a large number of such measurements the theory enables me to calculate the proportion of times the electron will be found " here " and the proportion of times it will be found " there " . |
| 16 | This version of the story of the development of the state 's role in social welfare can be applied to a number of industrialized nations-to the United States , to most of the other countries of western and northern Europe and to Australasia — as much as to Britain . |
| 17 | While presiding over the implementation of a large number of separate projects the entire structure of the Urban Programme seems increasingly marginal to the problems of both urban decline and mainstream inner-city policy . |
| 18 | That rather ponderous phrase is used because in an unknown but not insignificant number of contemporary prisons the problem still exists , but the actual substance has changed . |
| 19 | Microprogramming was first used on a large scale in the IBM System/360 range of computers , where a common architecture and instruction set had to be implemented on a number of different models the range with widely-varying basic hardware . |
| 20 | Russell attempted to assess in a number of different ways the impact of wife rape on the victims in her survey . |
| 21 | There are twenty possible kinds of amino acid , so the number of different proteins a hundred amino acids long is twenty raised to the power of a hundred . |
| 22 | Also I think you 'd find that the erm er although , now I 'm suggesting you do this , but if you went through the Independent and you counted the erm number of different words the total vocabulary , I think you 'd find it 's many many many many many many many times bigger than the |
| 23 | By making a number of corporate alliances a company may also seek to solve the ‘ big and quick ’ problem — alliances often feature a corporate giant like IBM in alliance with , say , a small innovative specialist in some particular type of software . |
| 24 | First , the winning of civil rights during and after the eighteenth century : in a number of important cases the courts developed the doctrine that the individual was free to do anything which was not made unlawful by a specific law ; and the corollary of this approach was that the state could not interfere with the civil and political liberties of its citizens ( in those days ‘ subjects ’ ) unless the government could persuade Parliament to pass legislation authorising the interference . |
| 25 | However , he also points out that in a number of important companies a single family of entrepreneurial capitalists retain a majority of the shares . |
| 26 | But county councillors claimed it would reduce parental choice by restricting the number of 11-year-old pupils the popular school can recruit . |
| 27 | That 's the number of lucky motorists the Wolfsburg manufacturer has equipped with the Golf G60 Limited , a car that was the subject of over 1000 enquiries when it was announced to dealers in Germany last year but only had a production run of 70 . |
| 28 | The choice of dimensions appropriate to a quantum mechanical problem will depend on the number of independent possibilities the system possesses . |
| 29 | According to a number of reliable witnesses the assailant was a tall man in a grey coat walking towards Mahoney , a short woman in a green hat hiding in a doorway , a masked figure in the back seat of a car and an unseen person who fired from behind a parking sign . |
| 30 | The eastern diamondback and the western diamondback are regarded as the most dangerous snakes in North America and are responsible for a number of human fatalities every year . |