Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any one time , then , the total quantity of plants in the sea may seem relatively small . |
| 2 | A more promising approach would be the comparative one , starting from the total distribution of pronouns in Shakespeare compared to other Elizabethan sonnet-writers . |
| 3 | The total number of sources in the IRAS catalogue — mainly clouds in our Galaxy — will probably run to two hundred thousand . |
| 4 | Although there was a small reduction in the total number of casualties in 1991 , it masked an increase in the number of children injured in cars who were not wearing seat belts . |
| 5 | That deal was followed by further purchases — including 128 pubs from Grand Metropolitan for £21 million and 80 from Brent Walker for £16 million — to bring the total number of pubs in the group to the present 820 . |
| 6 | But blackspots remained : one third of the total number of houses in Manchester , for example , were classed as unfit at the outbreak of war . |
| 7 | In relation to the total number of nobles in Gascony , the proportion of knights was therefore relatively small . |
| 8 | % max. with zygomatic : the numbers of maxillae with part of the zygomatic process remaining compared with the total number of maxillae in the sample ( given in the appendix ) . |
| 9 | The decline in the total number of farms in the Cantal LFA , though similar proportionally to the decline in Powys , is almost certainly more due to French national policies for improving farm structures ( including remembrement ) than to aspects of the UK 's LFA , there is much less direct official encouragement to improve agricultural structures ; rather it is the result of the way the LFA Directive is implemented , in particular the HLCA payment system . |
| 10 | This brings the total number of birds in the UK to around 40 . |
| 11 | In 1934 , there were 8,600,000 families , about 73.5 per cent of the total number of families in Britain , living on less than £4 per week . |
| 12 | Even if mansi absi , or aprisiones , or hospitia , as a proportion of the total number of holdings in any area , remained small , they were a sign of " dynamism " particularly visible in the heartland of the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 13 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 14 | The total number of hours in the two orders was 270 , which exceeded the maximum aggregate number of hours which the court would order on the same occasion by virtue of Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 , S. 14(3) in its original form . |
| 15 | Table 6.2 shows the number of addresses that have been allocated the stated number of records per address ( up to seven ) , and the percentage of the total number of records in the file that was successfully allocated by each of the six algorithms used by Kaimann . |
| 16 | An alternative method , and one that is nearly as good , is to express the distribution of skeletal elements against the total number of bones in the sample . |
| 17 | First , there is no consistent trend in the number of strikers who receive supplementary benefit as a proportion of either those who are ‘ eligible ’ , or as a proportion of the total number of strikers in any one year . |
| 18 | They are simply the total number of biomorphs in the space . |
| 19 | The total number of in-patients in Northern Ireland , including day cases , increased by 9 per cent . |
| 20 | The commission later decided to restore the seat and today its interim report said : ‘ At present the Commission is not minded to recommend a reduction in the total number of constituencies in Scotland from 72 to 71 . ’ |
| 21 | This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory . |
| 22 | The total number of installations in the Russian Federation is put at 200 . |
| 23 | They said two more people had been arrested yesterday , taking the total number of arrests in the case to 11. — Reuter and AP |
| 24 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 25 | Northallerton had the lowest level of accommodation provision in Hambleton and the loss of the Sundial Hotel would result in a 33 per cent reduction in the total number of beds in the town , the inquiry heard . |
| 26 | Labelling index per cent ( LI% ) was measured by counting the number of bromodeoxyuridine-positive cells and expressing the result as a percentage of the total number of cells in a crypt . |
| 27 | The total number of cells in the body ( of a human ) is about 10 trillion . |
| 28 | Slotting the survey findings together , the authors found that the total number of landfills in America might be anything from 4,462 to 10,467 . |
| 29 | A break-point can be picked out from the graph of employees in employment ( Figure 2.1(a) ) : 1966 was the peak year for the total number of jobs in the economy . |
| 30 | The prime report is in the form of a ‘ tear chart ’ ( fig 2 ) , where analysis of the sentences in the text is presented as a series of points on an XY graph ( box 1 ) of the number of long words in a sentence plotted against the total number of words in the sentence . |