Example sentences of "assume [conj] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Belfast we assumed that the number of socially-patterned variables that we might uncover could well run into the hundreds . |
| 2 | If we assume that the number of professional programmers , these are people who are competent to use and develop software , is roughly proportional to the number of commercial computers in operation , this means that if the trend continues , in ten years time , there will be a need for roughly a hundred times as many computer programmers than we 've got as present . |
| 3 | Assuming that the number of aliens in the UK is ⅓%; of the population and that a football crowd is a random sample of the population , how many aliens would you expect to find in a crowd of 60000 ? |
| 4 | Secondly , JPAC has assumed that the number of consultant posts will consistently increase by over 4% a year . |
| 5 | It is also assumed that the number of arrivals of information per time period varies . |