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

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1 Multidisciplinary assessments are one of the principles of care programming , but staff indicated that they felt that increasing the number of meetings and the range of participants could be a disadvantage .
2 This increased as agriculture grew more intensive , and as the number of livestock and the application of fertilizer has been increased .
3 might have also mentioned that the number of scholarships and the funds available for them have been increased by 50 per cent and 500 per cent respectively .
4 As for licences , Momentum 's price will be based on the number of users and the number of objects purchased .
5 The result was a sharp rise both in the number of claimants and the fees charged by private homes , subsidised by the Exchequer to the tune of one billion pounds by 1988 .
6 The axes of the graph are the number of specimens and the number of dies .
7 The computer totals the number of responses and the correct answers ; then when the child can supply no more words a full list of all possible words will be displayed , with the child 's answers in colour .
8 When people know only the number of payments and the amount of each instalment , their choice of repayment period has to be guided by the relationship between two conflicting factors .
9 erm On occupational health , and I do n't plead for those figures , because for a time , until Helen left to have her baby , we were fully staffed , and the number of inspections and the number of notices served and the number of prohibition notices served are very encouraging indeed .
10 I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little .
11 Variance component analysis was used to estimate the number of crypts and the number of biopsy samples that must be evaluated for each method to classify an individual correctly .
12 At a macro level the decisions could involve the option of a reduction in the number of teachers and the closing of some schools , which keeps the cost per child constant and reduces total expenditure ; or the improvement of educational standards through reducing the number of pupils per teacher and therefore increasing unit costs .
13 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 ?
14 The first is inbuilt , or morphological colour , which depends on the number of chromatophores and the different pigments they contain .
15 In 1945 the Mail , Express , News Chronicle and Herald dominated the number of titles and the sales of the qualities and tabloids either side of them .
16 By ‘ optimum ’ we mean efficient , and by size we refer to the number of residents and the total expenditure on local public goods .
17 The nursing skills the camp followers brought with them , must have reduced the number of fatalities and the contribution made by those who donned male attire , and fought along side their men can not be counted .
18 And holders are also using them more frequently — the number of transactions and the amount spent increased by 90 per cent in 1991 .
19 That turned out to be true , but once the initial markdown had occurred the Footsie index traded in a fairly narrow band all day , although the number of transactions and the volume of shares traded held up strongly .
20 A reduction in the number of matches and the space of time in which they are played is something Mr. Robinson is pressing for .
21 But the number of thefts and the times at which they were committed suggests there are other criminals in the region in the same business .
22 The major problems faced in contig assembly are the management and visualisation of very large data sets , the efficient selection of probes to minimise the number of experiments and the resolution of contradictions in the experimental data .
23 The remarkable correlation between the increase in the number of lawyers and the increase in the volume of capital ( Smigel 1969 ; Auerbach 1976 ) is thereby explained .
24 You will see at a glance the number of calories and the quantity of dietary fibre ( when present ) in a whole average-sized eating apple , or a carrot , or a rasher of bacon .
25 In this we reveal the number of calories and the quantity of dietary fibre present in the useful canned and packaged foods .
26 ‘ As a result , the standard of competition , the number of tournaments and the list of entries are all constantly escalating . ’
27 The first is the number of relationships and the second is their quality .
28 While this would be possible , it would be hard to protect such rights in any great detail through , for example , some form of constitutional entrenchment since the standard of these rights depends very much on the state of the economy and on demographic factors such as the numbers of elderly in the population ( currently increasing greatly ) and the number of children and the size of the working population .
29 Five hundred picture sleeves can cost from £200 to £500 depending on the number of colours and the thickness of the card .
30 There is no clear correlation between the number of injections and the degree of abnormality recorded .
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