Example sentences of "[art] number of [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When determining the size of the advanced further education pool for 1982 , the DES allowed for a drop in the number of new students by 4,000 to 50,000 , despite the fact that the local authorities predicted a further rise in intake , to 56,000 in 1982–3 . |
| 32 | There had been a significant fall in the number of new arrivals since the October agreement — only seven between January and mid-May 1992 , compared with 3,920 in the corresponding period in 1991 . |
| 33 | Curran 's arrival brings the number of new signings at Scarborough this week to five as boss Ray McHale looks ahead to next season . |
| 34 | Again , before offering in 1985 to put health warnings on shop facias and canopies , the industry expanded hugely the number of such signs without warnings . |
| 35 | The apparent excess of fathers monitored for radiation among children with leukaemia does not seem to be because the number of such fathers in the control group was unusually low by chance . |
| 36 | The 30MW sets were extremely conservative ( the first set with the standard conditions had been commissioned as long ago as 1929 ) , but Pask , the chief engineer , resisted pressure to reduce the number of such sets in the early years and concentrate more on the 60MW design . |
| 37 | Furthermore , though the number of persons suffering from a mental disorder who can not be helped on a voluntary basis is relatively small , the number of such persons in the community is likely to increase . |
| 38 | We have seen ( pp. 30–1 , above ) that the vast expansion in the number of such fires in the postwar years had provided consumers with a way of avoiding the consequences of coal rationing , but the effects on the electricity supply system were devastating . |
| 39 | A further possibility is an instruction to count the number of one bits in a computer word , and place the result in a suitable register ; this is useful in the calculation of parity . |
| 40 | The Government has pledged to increase the number of assisted visits to two a month , and is putting more resources into prison visitor centres . |
| 41 | Professor Hawkridge quotes , for example , a 1981 prediction that the number of installed microcomputers in the United States in 1984 will be 3 million of which 750000 will be in homes and 300 000 in educational institutions . |
| 42 | The number of rail–served collieries in South Wales declined dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 43 | where P d = P + Al = dirty bond price ( clean price plus accrued interest ) , rm = yield to maturity , N tc = number of days between current date and next coupon payment date , S = number of coupon payments before redemption ; if T is the number of complete years before redemption , then S = 2T if there is an even number of coupon payments before redemption , and S = 2T+1 if there is an odd number of coupon payments before redemption . |
| 44 | The number of committed liberals among the middle-ranking landowners who dominated the zemstvos was not large . |
| 45 | Nevertheless , the number of committed Jacobites in Parliament , although greater than at any other time in Anne 's reign , was still a small minority , and most Tories appear to have been committed to the Hanoverian Succession , though with varying degrees of enthusiasm . |
| 46 | As more animals are introduced , males seek to maximize the number of compatible relations with females while the latter seek to make their relation with a particular male exclusive . |
| 47 | The proposed development at Meadow House , though not associated with any community , would more than double the number of habitable dwellings in the immediate vicinity . |
| 48 | Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question . |
| 49 | The period saw a similar decline in the number of live births for both manual and non-manual families but the differential between these groups remained great , and indeed widened , until the inter-war years . |
| 50 | FAMILY SIZE — Though , in other contexts , it may refer to the size of the family ( i.e. the number of family members ) , in connection with fertility studies it usually denotes the number of live births to a woman ( sometimes only those children who are alive at a given time , e.g. at the time of the observation ) . |
| 51 | Between 1959 and 1977 , the number of female offenders per 100,000 of the population aged 14 to under 17 increased by 379 per cent ( compared to a 148 per cent increase for males of the same age group ) . |
| 52 | The following table shows a surge in the number of female actuaries over the last decade an also demonstrates how male dominated we were 60 years ago . |
| 53 | Republicans are likely to pick up seats in the House , so he might have more leverage there , but this will be counter-balanced by the probable increase in the number of Democratic seats in the Senate . |
| 54 | One of the major components of the fight against such disorders is to reduce the number of affected births by means of health education , laboratory screening and genetic counselling . |
| 55 | showed that the number of full-time male employees of local authorities increased by only 13 per cent during the critical period of 1964–74 while the number of part-time women in local authority employment rose by 86 per cent during the same period . |
| 56 | The extension of the fixed penalty system that is now projected will reduce the number of small cases in magistrates ' courts . |
| 57 | One of the delights of the Seychelles is the number of small hotels with only about ten rooms , where you can enjoy personal and friendly service and the careful attention of the owners . |
| 58 | Exports to western countries increased from US$ 6.1 billion to nearly US$7.3 billion ; the number of joint ventures from 1972 to 1989 was ( in round figures ) 1,000 , whereas in 1990 alone the number of new joint ventures reached 4,000 perhaps with the help of a revival of commercial law the ‘ tortuous and costly road of socialism which leads from capitalism to capitalism ’ is made smoother and swifter . |
| 59 | A Wilcoxon signed rank test on the number of retrospective completions per patient showed significantly more ( p<0.002 ) retrospective completions in the evening . |
| 60 | For a closer indication of the Authority 's priorities , we have therefore incorporated the length of each course and the number of participating teachers into an index of teacher-days : for example , a three-day course for eight teachers would involve twenty-four teacher-days ( 3 × 8 = 24 ) , while a half-day course for seventeen teachers would involve eight and a half teacher-days ( 3 × 8 = 24 ) . |