Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Is that opposed to the number of adults |
| 5 | Lunch was taken on the terrace alone beneath the warming rays of the April sunshine , and after that she continued her exploration of the house , amazed at the number of rooms that were apparently shut up and wondering why it was that a man like Marc Alexander Vila would choose to live alone in this enormous and obviously expensive mausoleum . |
| 6 | He was probably the sort of liberal , Dexter thought , who boasted of the number of blacks he knew but whose acquaintance was limited to inviting them round to show off at trendy drinks parties . |
| 7 | Once more , Huy had no opportunity to see out , but guessed from the number of twists and turns it made that they were taking a deliberately tortuous route . |
| 8 | In 1870 the geologist de Rance commented on the number of idiots in the Lancashire Fylde , which resulted from ‘ the dislike of the people to marry outside the district ’ . |
| 9 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |
| 10 | Hence there was a serious distortion in policy which between 1981 and 1985 led to the number of places in private and voluntary residential nursing homes rising by 138 per cent , from 39,000 to 93,000 despite a policy commitment to community care . |
| 11 | The two committees were set up under the provisions of the European parliamentary elections act nineteen ninety three , to carry out the task of determining the European parliamentary constituencies into which England and Wales should initially be divided to give effect to the increase , the section one of that act , made to the number of constituencies . |
| 12 | There 's a serious , a serious side Lord Mayor , to that greeting cos I just looked at the number of companies that are owned this shareholders scheme that they like to promote , the number of companies that 're owned by foreign nationals . |
| 13 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 14 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 15 | The cash value to be placed upon a first appointment as writer or cadet is uncertain , for it obviously depended upon the number of years in which a candidate would draw the salary , but contemporaries no doubt took the possibility of an early death from disease into account when they spoke of a value of £1,000 . |
| 16 | Mr. Malone pointed to the number of countries likely to gain nuclear arms in the next ten years , and reminded the audience that there were still 27,000 nuclear warheads distributed around the remnants of the Soviet Union . |