Example sentences of "or number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Welch earned his nickname ‘ Neutron Jack ’ when he committed GE to stick only with businesses that were number one or number two in their markets : a policy since copied by Siemens of Germany and Electrolux of Sweden , among others . |
| 2 | However , many of the more advantaged peasants ( either in terms of household labour power , control over land , or number of bullocks for ploughing ) might like to grow crops for the market . |
| 3 | We are also not bothered about being famous or number one in the charts . |
| 4 | The indemnity under Paragraph D for damages in respect of any one claim or number of claims arising out of any one cause shall not exceed £500,000 . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the Exeter guarantees renewal up to any age regardless of size or number of claims made . |
| 6 | A shoal of bream , whatever the size of individual fish or number of fish in a shoal , behave as one . |
| 7 | Providers would place no restraint on the services provided or number of cases treated , since they would be certain of payment . |
| 8 | there is a relationship between type of hunting behaviour of the predator and the diversity of its prey assemblage : opportunistic predators hunt a wide variety of habitats and produce high prey species diversities ( high in heterogeneity , or number of species , and high in equitability , or evenness of distribution of species ) ; and selective predators hunt a more limited habitat range ( often requiring a nomadic life style ) and produce low prey species diversities ; |
| 9 | Figure 2 shows the results of some work using an atomic beam containing all the stable isotopes of the element samarium ( atomic number , or number of protons , 62 ) . |
| 10 | Very little attempt is made to suggest alternatives in the syllabus plan or teachers ' books , very little attempt made to design or recommend more flexible materials such as reading or number cards , and this , despite enormous variations in ages , abilities and background of children . |
| 11 | You then ask a series of other questions such as do they prefer hearts or spades , red or black suits , or number or picture cards . |
| 12 | Also , the guitar has no official model name or number . |
| 13 | Some banks , such as National Westminster , charge a one-off rate of £3.50 per transaction regardless of the amount or number of different currencies required . |
| 14 | There are various tests for colour perception , some using plates of solid colour , but the most usual one is the Ishihara Test which presents a symbol or number depicted in coloured dots against a background of dots of another colour . |
| 15 | MT-1 , knit 2 rows ( or number chosen ) . |
| 16 | The fact that an infant child can complete correctly such sums as 9 + 3 = 12 and work through page upon page of identical problems is no indication that that child 's understanding of mathematics ( or number ) is being deepened . |
| 17 | If , however , we are talking about the number two or number three in a particular market , they may not be of sufficient size to achieve these objectives . |
| 18 | How could a single letter or number possibly tell as much , for example , as is contained in descriptive reports or profiles like those above . |
| 19 | Activity-induced changes in the morphology or number of spines may also contribute to changes in synaptic efficiency , as suggested by a number of electron-microscopic studies . |
| 20 | The new flexible licencing programme will also — for the first time — allow users to take a product licence for a given number of users on a local area network , irrespective of hardware platform or number of systems . |
| 21 | On each check the waiter or wine waiter must fill in the date , table or room number and details of the order and sign his or her initials or number ( Figs. 6.14(b) and ( c ) ) . |
| 22 | This form is to be completed if a group or number of groups wish to have a status report on the entries they are presently working on . |
| 23 | The form only requires a box or number of boxes to be filled out with the Group(s) identifier ( typically A1 etc . ) |
| 24 | Their task becomes one of being able to reduce the tone or number of audible clicks as they relax more and more deeply . |
| 25 | The word length for the store of a particular computer is chosen to hold a maximal numeric value or number of characters appropriate to the application area and cost to which the computer is designed . |
| 26 | Feature Marks available or number of levels Knowledge decided by experience of Understanding requisite standards Communication Inventiveness Technique and skills An alternative way of providing foci for assessors is to split the work undertaken by pupils and its write-up into phases . |
| 27 | Feature Marks available or number of levels Aim ( e.g. ) judged by experience or Method by reference to specific skills Results Conclusions |
| 28 | The next most highly rated questions , in terms of pupils ' experience , were on computation or number concepts . |
| 29 | Some further condition or number of conditions is needed . |
| 30 | One is the number of people committed to prison in any one year ( referred to as the rate of imprisonment or number of prison receptions ) ; the second is the length of sentence actually imposed by the courts ; and the third ( over which the courts have no direct control ) is the operation of the various forms of executive release , such as parole ( and , formerly , remission ) , which we will be looking at in Chapter 6 . |