Example sentences of "the number of [noun pl] per " in BNC.

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1 The number of papers per researcher , or per dollar — a measure of output in relation to input .
2 The ‘ doubling time ’ , defined as the taken for the number of theses per year to double , is somewhere between 12 and 15 years , so that within the 24 years covered by the present study , the population has only doubled once .
3 This can either be calculated using total variance in breeding success or using only variance attributable to differences in the number of mates per individual ( see Wade & Arnold , 1980 ) .
4 For this reason , counting the number of syllables per word is a more convenient measure of complexity .
5 Using this concept , Rouse considered a molecule in dilute solution under sinusoidal shear and derived the relations where η and η s are the viscosities of the solution and the solvent respectively , n is the number of molecules per unit volume , k is the Boltzmann constant , and ο is the angular frequency of the applied stress which is zero for steady flow .
6 In the West Country woollen region it has been noted that from the 1780s the number of women per cloth fell by 1802 to only 18 per cent of its former level .
7 When training for size the number of reps per set ranges between 8 and 12 .
8 The findings were similar , although the number of controls per case was small .
9 If the resolution is increased to 2048 x 2048 then the number of bits per second to be transmitted rises to 209 715 200 .
10 There is no limit to the number of resources per project .
11 It is the same form of strain energy function as is found by using the Gaussian random walk theory of molecular configurations , in which case the constant C has the value , where n is the number of chains per unit volume .
12 Later in the century , income figures , data on the number of persons per room from the census after 1891 ( Hole and Pountney 1971 ; Benjamin 1964 ) , public health reports , and nutritional surveys ( Burnett 1968 , Drummond and Wilbraham 1938 ) all show trends which are ecologically unfavourable to the spread of tuberculosis , especially trends in overcrowding ( figure 2.6 ) .
13 But changes in its relative abundance may not give an entirely accurate picture of population trends for any species , so the number of contacts per hour of counting for each species is added as an individual measure of abundance .
14 Let the packing density be p and the number of records per bucket be r .
15 As the packing density is usually lower than this and the number of records per cylinder greater , overflow from a cylinder is not usually a problem .
16 This means that an extra search will be added only for every additional ( 2n + 1 ) or ( 3n + 1 ) records , where n is the number of records per track .
17 Table 3.3 Turnover in British government securities 1985 – 1991 Since the reform , the number of bargains per day has averaged nearly 3,300 with the average size of bargain reaching nearly £1½m in 1990 .
18 The v in [ 1 ] is the number of vibrations per second .
19 For instance , the still birth ratio ( the number of still births per 1,000 live births ) or the masculinity ratio ( the number of males per 1,000 females ) .
20 Although the number of cases per head of population is less in England , the trend is similar , as it is in nearly all other temperate climates with predominantly white-skinned populations .
21 They are used by the HARDCOPY FORMATTER to control the format and characteristics of the volumes , for example the number of pages per volume and the type of media chosen ; they also control the amount of space available for use within the hard copy workspace during the hard copy run .
22 PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format :
23 During the period from five to 30 hours in culture the number of receptors per cell fell from 2.3×10 5 to 1.1×10 5 .
24 Where the system falls down , of course , is when someone changes their mind about the typeface that 's going to be used or the number of columns per page .
25 But the number of students per school in the state sector is considerably greater than in the private sector .
26 This academic year the number of students per firm has increased to eight and we are collaborating with the department of oncology at the Whittington Hospital , which undertakes a fifth of the teaching .
27 In a national sample of primary classrooms , four fifths were divided into groups and the number of groups per class averaged four to five , with a mean group size of 6.1 .
28 This means that the number of dots per square inch are much smaller and the amount of processing required by the sending fax machine is much less .
29 The number of dots per inch in the horizontal and vertical directions can be set to 72 to ensure equal vertical and horizontal scales .
30 Two measurements were made : the number of dots per unit subarea ( sweat spot test score ) and the % number of abnormal subareas ( with less than six spots ) .
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