Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The distance he 's travelled is equal to sixty miles per hour times the number of hours , he 's been travelling for okay ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was no association between the number of symptoms and the severity of DGR as determined by the sodium electrode ( Table I ) . |
| 4 | Will the Minister explain what he is going to say to the people of the Holloway area who find themselves in the unenviable position of having the jobcentre with the largest gap between the number of vacancies and the number of registered unemployed ? |
| 5 | On the housing front , the gap between the number of owner-occupiers has increased in all regions over the last decade , averaging at 68pc . |
| 6 | Alex Goldfarb , executive director of the ISF and formerly a biochemist at the Engelhardt Institute in Moscow , sees the gap between the number of applicants and the number of eligible scientists as a sign that many of his colleagues have left the country for greener pastures in the West or have taken up another occupation . |
| 7 | Perhaps our common reason is not any prediction about the number of cases of injustice that the checkerboard strategy would produce or prevent , but our conviction that no one should actively engage in producing what he believes to be injustice . |
| 8 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 9 | However , Mr Howell said ‘ it gave no indication of the number of transactions arranged , the income and expenditure they had produced , the type of risks involved , the scale of any potential gains and the exposure to loss ’ . |
| 10 | The box should give an indication of the number of times you have been in touch personally while nature and content can be filled in through what you enter in the rest of the sections space . |
| 11 | Steve Cropper says that Robert Cray and Bonnie Raitt are the only two artists in recent years that he 's watched from the audience — which is either a massive compliment , or an indication of the number of gigs our Steve attends these days . |
| 12 | THE Government is to carry out a study into the number of children injured in fireworks accidents . |
| 13 | The cut in the number of trainees has already been identified . |
| 14 | The guidance advises the accountant that test checks on a suitable number of controlled trust accounts may make possible a corresponding decrease in the number of checks in respect of other accounts . |
| 15 | Where there is sustained development of neighbourhood watch schemes , there is a sustained decrease in the number of burglaries . |
| 16 | One key influence in the loosening of the relationship between the press and political parties was the decrease in the number of titles published and , in particular , of evenings and provincials ( see Table 3. 1 ) . |
| 17 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 18 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 19 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) is to launch an enquiry into the sudden decrease in the number of elvers caught in the Severn , Britain 's largest fishery . |
| 20 | There is an apparent decrease in the number of polyps affecting each family member , but this may not be a valid observation due to the ages of the three daughters affected and the pattern of recurrence over many years ( 18 years in case 2 ) . |
| 21 | There was , however , no quota on the number of warrants issued to the security services . |
| 22 | What is likely to happen in the future to the number of children in the Hebrides ? |
| 23 | Any effect on the number of casualties in this category is likely to be detectable only in the longer term . |
| 24 | The recession has had surprisingly little effect on the number of titles agents have been able to place — especially by authors with a track record . |
| 25 | ( For example , to have increased numbers in computing , when this was a ‘ free choice ’ of increasing popularity , would have had no effect on the number of students graduating from the field of computer studies . ) |
| 26 | As the change of room will have no effect on the number of guests staying in the hotel , no entry is made in the column showing number of guests ( Fig. 3.27 ) . |
| 27 | There is a difference of opinion in the effect on the number of households produced by the way that the military |
| 28 | Could you put a figure on the number of runners who have finished in the race 's history ? |
| 29 | To calculate the amount of fabric that is left for the pleats , deduct the pole length from the finished fabric width , and divide the result by the number of spaces . |
| 30 | For three or four colours on the screen , multiply the number of squares high by two , then multiply this result by the number of squares wide . |