Example sentences of "total [noun sg] of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | How could a human being experience such total contrast of feelings in a matter of seconds . |
| 2 | Ablation of area 17 leads to almost total loss of cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate body , a process known as retrograde degeneration . |
| 3 | ‘ It would be consistent with the data ’ , he writes , ‘ and defensible on logical grounds to argue that the growth and decline in the designated areas merely reflects , after an appropriate time lapse , the gains or losses to the total stock of G.P.s in the country . ’ |
| 4 | At any one time , then , the total quantity of plants in the sea may seem relatively small . |
| 5 | A more promising approach would be the comparative one , starting from the total distribution of pronouns in Shakespeare compared to other Elizabethan sonnet-writers . |
| 6 | After several months of a total dearth of exhibitions in grander dealers ' galleries , there are signs of something approaching the usual seasonal increase . |
| 7 | It is true that there are a limited number of agreements between canoeists and landowners and other groups but these cover less than 0.5% of the total length of rivers in Britain . |
| 8 | This brings the total number of birds in the UK to around 40 . |
| 9 | Even if mansi absi , or aprisiones , or hospitia , as a proportion of the total number of holdings in any area , remained small , they were a sign of " dynamism " particularly visible in the heartland of the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 10 | In relation to the total number of nobles in Gascony , the proportion of knights was therefore relatively small . |
| 11 | Table 6.2 shows the number of addresses that have been allocated the stated number of records per address ( up to seven ) , and the percentage of the total number of records in the file that was successfully allocated by each of the six algorithms used by Kaimann . |
| 12 | % max. with zygomatic : the numbers of maxillae with part of the zygomatic process remaining compared with the total number of maxillae in the sample ( given in the appendix ) . |
| 13 | Although there was a small reduction in the total number of casualties in 1991 , it masked an increase in the number of children injured in cars who were not wearing seat belts . |
| 14 | The decline in the total number of farms in the Cantal LFA , though similar proportionally to the decline in Powys , is almost certainly more due to French national policies for improving farm structures ( including remembrement ) than to aspects of the UK 's LFA , there is much less direct official encouragement to improve agricultural structures ; rather it is the result of the way the LFA Directive is implemented , in particular the HLCA payment system . |
| 15 | First , there is no consistent trend in the number of strikers who receive supplementary benefit as a proportion of either those who are ‘ eligible ’ , or as a proportion of the total number of strikers in any one year . |
| 16 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 17 | But blackspots remained : one third of the total number of houses in Manchester , for example , were classed as unfit at the outbreak of war . |
| 18 | The total number of hours in the two orders was 270 , which exceeded the maximum aggregate number of hours which the court would order on the same occasion by virtue of Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 , S. 14(3) in its original form . |
| 19 | In 1934 , there were 8,600,000 families , about 73.5 per cent of the total number of families in Britain , living on less than £4 per week . |
| 20 | That deal was followed by further purchases — including 128 pubs from Grand Metropolitan for £21 million and 80 from Brent Walker for £16 million — to bring the total number of pubs in the group to the present 820 . |
| 21 | They are simply the total number of biomorphs in the space . |
| 22 | The total number of sources in the IRAS catalogue — mainly clouds in our Galaxy — will probably run to two hundred thousand . |
| 23 | An alternative method , and one that is nearly as good , is to express the distribution of skeletal elements against the total number of bones in the sample . |
| 24 | The ruling National Front coalition ( Barisan Nasional — BN ) admitted another party on July 29 , bringing the total number of parties in the coalition to 12 . |
| 25 | The method of arriving at cost by applying the latest purchase price to the total number of units in stock is unacceptable in principle because it is not necessarily the same as actual cost and in times of rising prices , will result in the taking of a profit which has not been realised . |
| 26 | The commission later decided to restore the seat and today its interim report said : ‘ At present the Commission is not minded to recommend a reduction in the total number of constituencies in Scotland from 72 to 71 . ’ |
| 27 | The total number of passengers in fact doubled between 1982 and 1992 from just under five million to ten million . |
| 28 | To calculate the room occupancy percentage accurately , the number of rooms out of service ( OSS ) for any reason such as maintenance or redecorating must be deducted from the total number of rooms in the hotel . |
| 29 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 30 | Northallerton had the lowest level of accommodation provision in Hambleton and the loss of the Sundial Hotel would result in a 33 per cent reduction in the total number of beds in the town , the inquiry heard . |