Example sentences of "number [prep] [n mass] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of offspring a male can produce depends on his ability to produce sperm and inseminate females . |
| 2 | A salesman who makes a large number of sales every day would probably prefer a weekly target to give him a continued sense of achievement . |
| 3 | The number of sales the trader could make was limited to the number of cars he could get . |
| 4 | Since then a number of people a great deal abler than ourselves have worked on the problem but , because of the sheer labour of handling the algebra they were forced either to assume that the crack tip was infinitely sharp , that is had zero radius , or else , with a finite tip radius , to use very approximate methods , or at least to map the stress system only in certain regions . |
| 5 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 6 | What seems to be important is the number of people the housewife sees . |
| 7 | You can work out the number of fish a pond is able to support from the surface area and size of fish . |
| 8 | In order to foster the feeling of family among such large numbers of staff the first edition of ‘ Laura Ashley News ’ was launched . |