Example sentences of "of the number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Estimates of the number of adults with cystic fibrosis in different age groups alive at the middle of 1990 were obtained from the United Kingdom Cystic Fibrosis Survey ( J Dodge , personal communication ) . |
| 32 | Like the poll tax , the council tax would also take account of the number of adults in each household . |
| 33 | If the anticipated growth of the number of entry-versions of text were to prove inaccurate by more than 15% , then the system would become more difficult to manage . |
| 34 | If you 're knitting a round neck and have stitches held on waste yarn , you should make a note of the number of stitches on waste as you knit them off . |
| 35 | However , the measure is of the number of organisms in aerosol at the time of testing and not the dose of organism to which the patient was actually exposed . |
| 36 | To test this hypothesis a number of stream patterns are generated using the program described above and a count made of the number of streams with no tributaries ( these are called first-order streams ) , then the number of streams formed by the junction of two first-order streams ( these are second-order streams ) and so on . |
| 37 | The geologist A. N. Strahler showed that if the logarithm of the number of streams of each order is plotted against stream order then a straight line will fit the resulting scatter of points . |
| 38 | The ratio of the number of molecules in an excited state to those in the ground state , assuming dynamic thermal equilibrium at room temperature , is , where E ν is the excess energy in cm -1 . |
| 39 | The Weather People , as they later called themselves because of the number of women in their ranks , were led by Bernardine Dohrn . |
| 40 | Over these years the size of special employment programmes increased substantially , largely as a consequence of a tripling of the number of places on the Community Programme . |
| 41 | It is for British Coal to decide what manpower it requires However the Government need to make some estimate of the number of redundancies in order to seek the necessary estimate provision for restructuring grant . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ By the late eighties the global plans of the major US multinationals will have created a massive UK trade deficit of around seven billion pounds which will go on increasing with the growth of the number of vehicles in use . |
| 43 | Er I would also point out that erm even though there was a respectable response to the public consultation exercise , I think the number of respondents in total only represented something like seventeen percent of the number of households in the Harrogate and Knaresborough area . |
| 44 | The number of option contracts can not exceed 10 per cent of the number of securities in issue . |
| 45 | To this end he makes periodic counts , from the issue records , of the number of books on loan in each category . |
| 46 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |
| 47 | Mr Humphreys said they offered different versions of the number of beds in the hospitals ; the number of people working there ; the volume of traffic on Hollyhurst Road ; the number of parking spaces which were to be created by Bioplan and the shift patterns worked by staff at Bioplan . |
| 48 | • Estimates of the number of journalists at the S-class release varied between 600 to 700 . |
| 49 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 50 | Salford University , for instance , relegate on the basis of two features : a cut-off date of 1930 , and a measure of the number of uses in the previous five years . |
| 51 | The distribution of the number of photons in the fringe pattern is . |
| 52 | Proof of the number of seats in a passenger motor car or the maximum gross weight of a goods vehicle may be necessary to show this new offence applies to the vehicle in question , eg. ‘ The motor car had been adapted to carry 8 seated passengers in addition to the driver ’ ( but not more than 8 ) . |
| 53 | This is because increasing the proportion of left handers in the overall population by shifting the criterion to the right takes in a larger segment of the RS — distribution , but this segment constitutes a changing proportion of the number of individuals to the left of this criterion ( i.e. the left handers ) . |
| 54 | But it reveals that a shortage of staff to deal with the removal of youngsters from the register gives a ‘ totally inaccurate picture ’ of the number of children at risk of abuse . |
| 55 | For instance , the value of the total toy market is a function of the number of children of the relevant ages , the access of these children ( as permitted by their parents ) to retail outlets , and industry or market research figures for per capita expenditure per child on toys , suitably adjusted for inflation , increased in personal disposable income ( etc ) . |
| 56 | The school at present has no spare classroom space and no likelihood of the number of children in decreasing . |
| 57 | In any learning task , the proportion of cells in each chip which should be set to 1 is likely to be independent of the number of cells in the chip ; so the number of learning cycles will be roughly proportional to the size of a chip . |
| 58 | in word processing , the automatic adjustment of the number of words on a line of text to match the margin settings . |
| 59 | For example , frequency of nouns can be expressed as a percentage of the number of words in a text : X should normally be a more general , superordinate category including the feature being counted . |
| 60 | Also the size of the model is independent of the number of words in the dictionary . |