Example sentences of "this number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 2 | The 3 = 10 9 years since the origin of life has been more than sufficient for this number of generations . |
| 3 | I know in our case , and therefore probably in a lot that it is n't always possible , they 'll always find a way in , but if there was some perhaps advice to people it might bring down this number of complaints , that you could perhaps do before the wasp season begins , I do n't know whether that 's a possibility or not . |
| 4 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 5 | Once this number of errors has been reported , LIFESPAN will stop writing error reports to the process log and will simply keep a cumulative total of the number of errors occurring . |
| 6 | This number of letters is approximately 1,700 words and is a relatively small sample set . |
| 7 | Now and then we would feed them twice this number of mice , just to vary their diet . |
| 8 | A figure of 40,000 a year is used ( though ‘ we have formed no final view about whether this number of demolitions will actually take place ’ ) . |
| 9 | Tony Geraghty twice mentions the disappearance of Leslie 's aircraft , and the reader will realise from the context in which Geraghty discusses this incident that a loss of this number of men from a small unit was a serious matter . |
| 10 | A student attending a well directed breast clinic may personally see this number of patients in less than a month and be taught to make an accurate clinical assessment . |
| 11 | This number of patients should allow us to detect a minimal relevant difference in the mean percentage reduction of the VHAI between both treatments of 20% ( 35 points ) ; the estimated standard deviation of the VHAI is 30 points , a value obtained from a previous study on patients with similar clinical characteristics . |
| 12 | This number of years is equal to 52 Vague Years and to 73 Sacred Years . |
| 13 | That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now . |
| 14 | The Railway had only sold this number of seats by mid-October last year . |
| 15 | Divide this number of degrees by 3 to get the number of seconds of turn . |
| 16 | Any candidate receiving this number of votes is declared elected . |
| 17 | Yet the plain fact is that this number of children are dying every day — dying from diseases we know how to cure . |
| 18 | No , I 've given ever such a lot of clues , do n't normally give this number of clues . |
| 19 | The economy finds itself in a suboptimal state of temporary equilibrium at point C owing to a sales constraint on output : firms would ideally like to produce Y * ; output and employ L * ; workers but , being unable to sell all of this output and employ this number of workers , they are obliged to produce a level of output Y 1 compatible with constraint on sales and hence employ only L 1 workers . |