Example sentences of "of the number of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took about 300 hours , but it was time well spent , the practice believes , because of the number of inaccuracies in the FPC register — around 40 per cent . |
| 2 | As we outlined in our report ( footnote , p 151 ) there are an estimated 7800 full and part-time professional complementary therapists in the UK , which is equivalent to 28 per cent of the number of doctors in general practice . |
| 3 | Baumol 's theory of contestable markets states that consumer welfare can be maximised regardless of the number of firms in an industry , as long as it is greater than one . |
| 4 | This source can provide an approximation of the number of firms in Britain but can not allow a differentiation of firms according to their standing in the senior recruitment market . |
| 5 | ( 1982 ) have argued that resources will be allocated efficiently ( in the sense that prices will be equal to marginal costs ) in industries which are perfectly contestable and that this result holds irrespective of the number of firms in the industry . |
| 6 | However , the cost of the palace was almost negligible compared with the funds ‘ invested ’ in arbitrary economic projects and the rebuilding of all the major cities in Romania , and with what Ceauşescu intended to spend on ‘ rural systematization ’ ( which involved halving of the number of villages in Romania and constructing 558 ‘ agro-industrial ’ complexes ) . |
| 7 | In view of the number of changes in education , a fundamental strategic review of the Association 's role in this area was undertaken and approved by the Council in December 1992 . |
| 8 | The products of the number of papers in a given subject field and from a given country , and the mean citation rate calculated for each journal are summed by journal and compared with the observed citation rate . |
| 9 | From initial investigations , it appeared that some measure of the number of letters in a word , and the word shape , would be quite restrictive for the list of possible candidates ( for Case 1 ) , as discussed below . |
| 10 | The Crown had intended to introduce evidence of the number of transactions in shares between the members of the Stenhouse family and associated family trusts , and also of earlier agreements between the trustees and the Revenue as to the appropriate formula for valuing shares in H and SW . |
| 11 | However a worrying trend is the sharp rise in the number of accidents involving cyclists , but without further research it is not possible to say whether this is a consequence of the doubling of the number of cyclists in Buxtehude in four years , a trend encouraged by the introduction of environmental traffic management . |
| 12 | The Privy Council is then found referring to arbitration a dispute between two foreigners , hearing the submission and apology of a merchant for speaking offensively about the Queen , instructing sheriffs to send up a note of the number of prisoners in their gaols , ordering mayors of seaports to prepare private ships to serve in the navy against the expected Spanish invasion , telling its agents at the Hague to arrange for the purchase of matches for guns , sending off various warrants , organizing the acquisition of copper for the Queen 's service , delegating the decision in a legal action to the J.P.s of Bedfordshire , permitting the taking of a collection on behalf of a Cornish village despoiled by Spaniards , and writing to the Lord Mayor of London about a complaint against his predecessor . |
| 13 | Also in 1983 , young women constituted 38 per cent of the number of students in advanced-level courses in polytechnics . |
| 14 | Like the poll tax , the council tax would also take account of the number of adults in each household . |
| 15 | However , the measure is of the number of organisms in aerosol at the time of testing and not the dose of organism to which the patient was actually exposed . |
| 16 | The ratio of the number of molecules in an excited state to those in the ground state , assuming dynamic thermal equilibrium at room temperature , is , where E ν is the excess energy in cm -1 . |
| 17 | The Weather People , as they later called themselves because of the number of women in their ranks , were led by Bernardine Dohrn . |
| 18 | It is for British Coal to decide what manpower it requires However the Government need to make some estimate of the number of redundancies in order to seek the necessary estimate provision for restructuring grant . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ By the late eighties the global plans of the major US multinationals will have created a massive UK trade deficit of around seven billion pounds which will go on increasing with the growth of the number of vehicles in use . |
| 20 | Er I would also point out that erm even though there was a respectable response to the public consultation exercise , I think the number of respondents in total only represented something like seventeen percent of the number of households in the Harrogate and Knaresborough area . |
| 21 | The number of option contracts can not exceed 10 per cent of the number of securities in issue . |
| 22 | Mr Humphreys said they offered different versions of the number of beds in the hospitals ; the number of people working there ; the volume of traffic on Hollyhurst Road ; the number of parking spaces which were to be created by Bioplan and the shift patterns worked by staff at Bioplan . |
| 23 | Salford University , for instance , relegate on the basis of two features : a cut-off date of 1930 , and a measure of the number of uses in the previous five years . |
| 24 | The distribution of the number of photons in the fringe pattern is . |
| 25 | Proof of the number of seats in a passenger motor car or the maximum gross weight of a goods vehicle may be necessary to show this new offence applies to the vehicle in question , eg. ‘ The motor car had been adapted to carry 8 seated passengers in addition to the driver ’ ( but not more than 8 ) . |
| 26 | The school at present has no spare classroom space and no likelihood of the number of children in decreasing . |
| 27 | In any learning task , the proportion of cells in each chip which should be set to 1 is likely to be independent of the number of cells in the chip ; so the number of learning cycles will be roughly proportional to the size of a chip . |
| 28 | For example , frequency of nouns can be expressed as a percentage of the number of words in a text : X should normally be a more general , superordinate category including the feature being counted . |
| 29 | Also the size of the model is independent of the number of words in the dictionary . |
| 30 | This suggests that the size of the departures from the no-arbitrage condition will be a positive function of the number of shares in the index . |