Example sentences of "[prep] the number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that nothing is more insulting to women — whether it is said by women or men — than talk of setting targets for the number of women to be in top posts ? |
| 2 | Now when it asks you for the sample statement , ah done it , right before , it will ask you for the sample statement er over what period would you like to estimate this equation , right instead of pressing the return key which gives you the default , right , if you specify nineteen twenty three to nineteen forty sorry just a a dash between it like that nineteen twenty three space nineteen forty okay it asks you for the number of observations to be used in the structural stability tests , right , erm if you er press the default er if you press the return key then it should give you the maximum number available right five observations in this case right and then it will perform the regression over the entire sample period , those will be the results you obtain , right , it will also er present Chow erm test statistics . |
| 3 | The ‘ doubling time ’ , defined as the taken for the number of theses per year to double , is somewhere between 12 and 15 years , so that within the 24 years covered by the present study , the population has only doubled once . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Statistics for the number of recipients of all benefits are not collected on a regional basis . |
| 7 | The autoradiograph was analysed by densitometry , the area under each trace was calculated and the values corrected for the number of methionines in each protein . |
| 8 | Birmingham City 's Peter Crawford , who claimed a ‘ school record ’ for the number of suspensions from Mirfield Secondary School , was taken , along with other pupils , to the then Aston Manor Club ( now Aston Villa ABC ) by ‘ a school teacher called Kane who 'd boxed for Ireland at one stage ’ . |
| 9 | Since we can not see how many , we will let the letter $ stand for the number of sweets in the box . |
| 10 | While British Standards ( BSi ) sets minimum requirements for the number of facilities for men and women , the provision of public lavatories is the responsibility of local authorities , so it differs from area to area . |
| 11 | The user has specified a value for the number of items in the named list which exceeds the valid range . |
| 12 | The interest rate quoted is applied to the principal for the number of days of the advance divided by 365 if this is a domestic UK sterling deal ( 360 days for Eurosterling and most currencies ) , and the interest is repaid together with the principal at the maturity date . |
| 13 | We will assume highly conservative figures for the number of households in 1995 and hold this number steady for the year 2000 . |
| 14 | As the number of tenants of each sex was to be the same , Agnes Bolton and Margaret Tinkler were also chosen . |
| 15 | If true , we might expect male peeking rates to increase as the number of females in the flock increase . |
| 16 | The data in table 5.9 show that bond enthalpies increase as the number of bonds between two atoms decreases . |
| 17 | It is normally expressed as the number of grams per mole . |
| 18 | Second , three of the variables incorporated into it have negative signs , indicating that as the number of pixels of these types increases , so population decreases . |
| 19 | It is usually expressed as the number of moles of solute in one litre ( that is , one cubic decimetre ) of solution : where n(X) denotes the amount of solute X , Vdenotes the volume of solution and [ X ] denotes the concentration of solute X in solution . |
| 20 | Molality can be expressed as the number of moles of solute in one kilogram of solvent . |
| 21 | But the effective address is then used , not to specify a store location , but as subsidiary information for the operation to be performed ( such as the number of bits to be shifted ) . |
| 22 | We have seen the subsidiary information field as providing parameters needed by an operation , such as the number of bits to be shifted or the length of an operand . |
| 23 | As the number of transactions per time period falls the understatement increases ; for example , for ten transactions per time period the understatement is about 49% . |
| 24 | Such lists as were drawn up by James are now thought to contain deliberate inaccuracies in details , such as the number of pages in certain books , thus enabling James to remove and offer pages from illuminated Qur'ans on the international market . |
| 25 | Although the section will be relatively small to start with ( because the number of students involved in pilots is only a small proportion of all those taking Advanced Courses ) , over the next few years more staff will move across from traditional examination work to work on quality assurance as the number of students in validated courses grows larger . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If is defined as the number of atoms in the backbone chain of a polymer then typical values for c are 610 for polyisobutylene , 730 for polystyrene , and 208 for poly ( methyl methacrylate ) . |
| 29 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
| 30 | If n is defined as the number of shares in issue in period t and m is the number of any new shares issued in period t+ 1 , Eq . |