Example sentences of "the number of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to single copy probes , the number of loci and their positions for multi-locus probes are usually unknown . |
| 2 | The study comes at a time when many health authorities are reducing the number of clinics and there has been a 35% rise in teenage pregnancy rates over the last 10 years . |
| 3 | So the number of women that we 'll want , is eight over six , times six . |
| 4 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 5 | This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time . |
| 6 | This observation is based on the high number of copies that there are of certain fabliaux and the number of variants that there are of others . |
| 7 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 8 | it 's just the number of boxes that you 're gon na change ! |
| 9 | I make no apology for the number of committees that we have and I make no apology for the numbers on the committee . |
| 10 | The software can load and save the results for a sample , characterised by the number of phrases and their depth and type , set up a continuous dialogue with the operator and update the database for tests in progress . |
| 11 | Three weeks is not a long time to debate a Bill , but the number of hours that we can devote to the Bill during that period will be perfectly adequate . |
| 12 | Against each one of these headings , you should have an estimate of the number of hours that you propose to charge the defendants . |
| 13 | The number of pages as they are |
| 14 | ‘ I sat in on the Jockey Club working party that drew up these latest proposals Their idea was to bring down the number of strokes and they did not seem very interested in what we , the jockeys , had to say . |
| 15 | Because there are , I do n't know how many sites Tarmac run , but there must be at least the number of sites that they 've ever run divided by two standard ways of planning , Tarmac . |
| 16 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 17 | Right , the degrees of freedom in the numerator just denote the number of restrictions that you are actually making the test . |
| 18 | Heclo points to the rapid expansion of the number of groups and their representatives in Washington in the 1970s . |
| 19 | Erm what will the the equation you get will be something like this , the weight is equal to a hundred times N okay where N is the number of engines that you 've got on . |
| 20 | Where N is the number of engines and it 's the weight in kilograms . |
| 21 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
| 22 | The first requirement is good system management to reduce the number of Suitcase that you have fonts stored in . |
| 23 | For example the number of times that one or other proton has a and the other then has A would be a number that I shall call unc Numbers unc are similarly defined . |
| 24 | Bulb-life is also related to the number of times that they are switched on and off . |
| 25 | Also , the z-axis is invariant under the flow , so any periodic orbits in the system can be partially described by an integer n specifying the number of times that they wind around the z-axis . |
| 26 | Pictures are taken at several ( eight ) different exposure levels and each point is weighted according to the number of times that it is seen . |
| 27 | In 1992 , we established similar share schemes in BP companies in Austria , Germany , Japan , Malaysia , Singapore , Southern Africa and the USA , bringing to 14 the number of countries where we operate share schemes for employees . |
| 28 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 29 | There is no legal limit on the number of ministers but there is a limit on the number who can sit and vote in the Commons ( House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 , s.2(1) ) , presently 95 and a limit to the number of ministerial salaries which can be paid ( Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 ) . |
| 30 | Accident estimate : ‘ I want you to estimate the number of accidents that you think actually occur at this junction . |