Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the number [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 2 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 3 | Death rates were also calculated as the number of deaths per recorded discharge ( case mortality or fatal spell ratio ) . |
| 4 | On the basis of the figures given for the number of infants requiring blood transfusion there is no significant difference between the two groups for either ventilated infants or all infants ( χ 2 test , two by two analysis ) . |
| 5 | Figure 5.2 shows for the Earth , Venus and Mars the abundances of the inert gas isotopes as the number of atoms in the atmosphere per kilogramme of the whole planet . |
| 6 | An inquiry directed at a not necessarily random sample of employers in 1984 asked about the number of workers they had whose stay with the organisation was recognised by both sides as being temporary . |
| 7 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 8 | Let's think about the number of regions we have , the T & G have got seven , we 've got ten . |
| 9 | When 0 is given as the number of parses , this indicates that the parser exited cleanly with no parses being found , a dash ( - ) indicates that the system crashed before a parse was obtained . |
| 10 | The mass of the PFM is unknown and therefore the abundances are not to be regarded as the number of atoms per kilogramme of PFM , 20 Ne being arbitrarily placed at 10 22 atoms per kilogramme to facilitate comparison with the graphs for the planets . |
| 11 | A positive correlation has indeed been reported between the number of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs issued by general practitioners in England and Wales and the rate of deliberate self-poisoning , and it has been estimated that a reduction of 1000 psychotropic prescriptions would be associated with 3.8 fewer admissions as a result of deliberate self-poisoning ( Forster and Frost 1985 ) . |
| 12 | Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ? |
| 13 | If true , we might expect male peeking rates to increase as the number of females in the flock increase . |
| 14 | Advance booking is strongly recommended as the number of children visiting Santa may have to be limited . |
| 15 | The chance of recording a positive family history of sinistrality was found by Bishop ( 1980b ) to increase with the number of siblings respondents said they had . |
| 16 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
| 17 | Such an MNP will have to obtain separate indemnity cover for overseas branch offices ; only the gross fees of the MNP 's offices in England and Wales will be taken into account in calculating its indemnity contributions ; and those partners in the MNP who normally practise from overseas offices will not be included in the number of principals for the purpose of calculating the contributions . |
| 18 | My Lords , the , the point made by the Noble Lord is that it is an important one erm it is important that teachers do feel comfortable with this subject and to that end the erm grant for education support and training is making money available and religious education has been added to the number of subjects for which it can be made available to help with er improving specialisms in schools , but also pr improving co-ordination for religious education in schools . |
| 19 | Under this type of system , each frame of video picture is ‘ labelled ’ with its own reference number relating to the number of hours , minutes , seconds and frames which have elapsed since the beginning of the recording . |
| 20 | To qualify for the award , the companies submit their previous year 's accident rate , which is based on a formula relating to the number of days lost through injuries and accidents at work to the total number of employees . |
| 21 | No , I guess checking on the number of balls left in the over I think . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information he has on the number of orders , and for what types of vessels , held by shipbuilders in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what information he has on the number of jobs in the north-west region of England which are related to defence requirements . |
| 24 | Overwhelmed by the number of donors pushing their desire to lend , recipient governments were frequently unable to sort out their own priorities in a meaningful way . |
| 25 | A spokesman said they had been overwhelmed by the number of applications when the new disability living benefit was announced and said it had taken longer than anticipated to sort out . |
| 26 | Mr Philips further insisted : ‘ We were overwhelmed by the number of messages of support we received from across the North of Ireland , and we even got a phonecall from as far away as Greece . ’ |
| 27 | The odds of an outcome are given by dividing the number of times the outcome occurred by the number of times it did not occur . |
| 28 | Once an imbalance occurs between the number of males waiting to acquire units and the number of units that can be taken over or entered , the system could go into a series of oscillations which would be self-perpetuating , at least for some time . |
| 29 | ‘ I do not want to talk about the number of jobs likely to go because we are currently in discussion with the union . ’ |
| 30 | He said it was too early to talk about the number of jobs but the project would probably be less ambitious than the original scheme . |