Example sentences of "as the number of [noun pl] in " in BNC.

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1 If true , we might expect male peeking rates to increase as the number of females in the flock increase .
2 Such lists as were drawn up by James are now thought to contain deliberate inaccuracies in details , such as the number of pages in certain books , thus enabling James to remove and offer pages from illuminated Qur'ans on the international market .
3 Although the section will be relatively small to start with ( because the number of students involved in pilots is only a small proportion of all those taking Advanced Courses ) , over the next few years more staff will move across from traditional examination work to work on quality assurance as the number of students in validated courses grows larger .
4 Figure 5.2 shows for the Earth , Venus and Mars the abundances of the inert gas isotopes as the number of atoms in the atmosphere per kilogramme of the whole planet .
5 If is defined as the number of atoms in the backbone chain of a polymer then typical values for c are 610 for polyisobutylene , 730 for polystyrene , and 208 for poly ( methyl methacrylate ) .
6 As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods .
7 If n is defined as the number of shares in issue in period t and m is the number of any new shares issued in period t+ 1 , Eq .
8 In the first experiment , we saw that as the number of possibilities in which the cards may be sorted increases , the reaction time required increases proportionally .
9 In the second experiment , again , it was found that as the number of digits in the memory set increased the time which the brain required before making a correct response increased almost linearly .
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