Example sentences of "the number of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's about the number of keys to the Cathedral . |
| 32 | Commencing with only three Divisions with their own examination structure , the number of Divisions in the RICS increased to seven and periodically the wheel is re-examined to establish whether it should turn full circle to produce a smaller number of specialist groups once again . |
| 33 | The labels on the boxes should include the address and telephone number of the sender and the consignee , a description of the contents ( species , strain , age , number ) and the number of boxes in the consignment . |
| 34 | The number of microorganisms on the skin at the time it is cut will depend on how recently the skin was washed or , in the case of surgery , how adequately skin preparation was undertaken . |
| 35 | it will vary depending upon the number of flats in the block , but gener |
| 36 | Reiman ( 1979 : 75 ) estimates that in 1972 the number of persons in the USA dying from occupational hazards ( diseases and accidents ) was 114,000 , whereas only 20,600 died from being shot , cut , beaten , or poisoned , and being recorded as a homicide case . |
| 37 | If he cares to count the number of persons in the Chamber , including you , Mr. Speaker , the Chairman of Ways and Means and his Clerk , he will find that there are 16 . |
| 38 | For plain fabrics Multiply the number of widths by the cutting length for your total fabric requirement . |
| 39 | Multiply the number of widths by the number of pattern repeats per drop to give the total number of pattern repeats required . |
| 40 | That will lead to an increase in the number of operations at the Royal . |
| 41 | On this graph each value represents the average output of a year , calculated by dividing the number of coins by the number of dies . |
| 42 | The contrast between the number of villas in the western half of the civitas of the Cantii and the comparative few in the east has long caused comment . |
| 43 | For the number of biomorphs in the land is half a trillion , and if no one of them is any more probable as a destination than any other , the odds of jumping to any particular one are small enough to ignore . |
| 44 | This enables designers to leave unconnected pins floating and reduces the number of components on the circuit board . |
| 45 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 46 | There was a rapid increase in the number of proposals before the Group in 1975 , and James Porter recalls taking part in two-day visits roughly every other week . |
| 47 | The ratio between the number of contracts in the two legs of a spread can be termed ‘ the spread ratio ’ ( denoted p ) , and has so far been unity . |
| 48 | During this stage there is a considerable increase in the number of teeth in the mouth , from 28 to 42 . |
| 49 | Why do not the Government copy Labour 's policy of supporting our police forces by substantially increasing the number of bobbies on the beat in a self-financing fashion ? |
| 50 | Mr Taylor has already appealed to the Home Office for an extra 20 men in a bid to boost the number of bobbies on the beat . |
| 51 | unc The number of figures after the decimal point , or number of decimal places , is needed to fix place value . |
| 52 | For example , if the category can take the values 1 to 7 , the factory number can be 01 to 11 , the product type can be 01 to 37 , and the number of products in the type can range from 001 to 999 , with 147 being the largest required at present ( the number varies with type ) , then we might have the following runs of continuous numbers made up of the digits representing the category , factory , product type and number of products : |
| 53 | Put a number of dashes to represent the number of letters in the word . |
| 54 | The number of letters in the consonant-group recalled after 0 seconds was compared with recall after longer delays . |
| 55 | If there are 39 more girls than boys , find the number of boys in the school . |
| 56 | Some of the archers thought that if the competition were restricted to longbows it would die out but , after a decrease when the steel bows first appeared , the number of longbows at the Scorton shoot is steadily increasing . |
| 57 | We shall index these markets or islands by the subscript , where z can be any number between 1 and the number of islands in the economy , N. We begin the model by writing down the supply of output in the th market as where is the quantity of output supplied in market in period t ; p ( ) t is the price of output in market in period t ; Formula ; is the expectation formed in market of the economy-wide average price of output in period t , p t , using all the information available in the th market at the beginning of period t ; and β and β : 1 are coefficients , where β 1 is positive . |
| 58 | In a study in which children 's eye movements were recorded while they scanned an array and listened to messages to focus on items in the array ( Lloyd , 1983 ) , it was found that the number of shifts between the items in the referent array varied significantly as a function of message adequacy . |
| 59 | On the same day each week , note the number of aphids on the plant . |
| 60 | He would make an annual report to parliament giving the number of exemptions to the basic ‘ pain condition ’ which he had allowed in the year . |