Example sentences of "[art] number of [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 The number of surfaces where the test applies is extremely limited and includes :
2 Hd ( x , y ) is the number of positions where the two tuples have different entries .
3 The number of families where the head of household faced an implicit marginal tax rate greater than 70% in fact doubled after 1988 to over half a million .
4 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 .
5 Mike Eveling , of the Inland Revenue , said : ‘ If we iron out problems now we will reduce our own workload by cutting the number of appeals when the values are announced . ’
6 Ideally one could construct a model of the fossil to test out these various functions in experiments , but the number of examples where the analysis has been pursued this far are limited .
7 The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small .
8 I do not include in that 70 the number of occasions when the hon. Members for Brightside and for Dagenham have said contradictory things .
9 New ventures : LASMO is investigating new venture possibilities in a number of countries where the Company already has a presence , as well as countries in which LASMO is not presently represented , included the CIS .
10 We have encountered a number of difficulties where the calculation of the scheme charge is certainly not what the customer expects to see on his bill . ’
11 The atlas vertebra is distinctly more massive in the male ( Boyd & Trevor , 1953 ) with a number of dimensions particularly the breadth , greater than in the female .
12 There are also a number of cases where the Commission has held that the banning of meetings and procession for a restricted period because of fears for public safety , such bans being under the democratic laws of a State , were not in contravention of the Convention .
13 The dock strike failed because the transport workers did not have the strength to defend the labour monopoly enjoyed by registered dockers in a number of ports once the Government removed its statutory underpinning .
14 I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights .
15 To that general principle , however , there would seem to be a number of exceptions where the court will not simply accept the verdict of the solicitors as expressed in their own agreement .
16 Now is it not they 'll ask you , reasonable to recycle some of those savings and surely regain the into the provision of those ten fire officers that the service so badly needs for a number of years now the Fire Inspector 's report has identified the confidence levels as we in our service .
17 ‘ I have viewed a number of plants where the inception of computer equipment is viewed as a way to further de-skill the worker , and thereby lower his wage , ’ Melman added .
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