Example sentences of "the [adj] number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total number of sources in the IRAS catalogue — mainly clouds in our Galaxy — will probably run to two hundred thousand . |
| 2 | This brought the total number of projects to 470 and total spending to ECU8,200 million . |
| 3 | English Nature has announced the addition of four new projects to its Species Recovery Programme , bringing the total number of projects to 22 . |
| 4 | He asks what each legislator might do , in the position he happens to occupy , to reduce the total number of incidents of injustice or unfairness according to his own views of what justice and fairness require . |
| 5 | In Germany the total number of refugees from eastern Europe and from developing countries was expected to reach some 200,000 in 1991 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There are about 1.4 million breeding cows in the British beef herd and about 3 million breeding cows in the dairy herd ; the total number of cattle of all ages and types is about 12 million . |
| 9 | But blackspots remained : one third of the total number of houses in Manchester , for example , were classed as unfit at the outbreak of war . |
| 10 | In relation to the total number of nobles in Gascony , the proportion of knights was therefore relatively small . |
| 11 | In the foundation 's view , arthritis should be taken out of that conglomerate and set up in a new and separate institute , which would bring the total number of institutes at NIH to 12 . |
| 12 | The total number of members of parties and organisations of Southern Korea which made application for consultations is recorded in the list submitted by the American delegation as 70 million persons . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) Subject to subsection ( 9 ) and ( 13 ) below , a licensing board shall consist of not less than one-quarter of the total number of members of the district or islands council and in no case shall consist of less than five such members . |
| 14 | On May 4 the former Soviet republics of Armenia , Moldova and Tajikistan joined the WHO , bringing the total number of members to 174 . |
| 15 | You may be interested to know that in January 1993 , the total number of visitors to Winfrith Technology Centre was 1821 . |
| 16 | The total number of observations for each of the ten points in increasing order of risk rating are as follows : 532 , 230 , 146 , 75 , 64 , 24 , 13 , 16 , 9 , 11 . |
| 17 | % 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 ) . |
| 18 | If elimination of lead in petrol could reduce blood levels by half — as the study assumed — it would reduce average blood pressure levels by 1 to 2 points , thereby meaning that 12,000 fewer people would need treatment for hypertension annually , there would be 6,000 to 12,000 fewer heart attacks , and up to 2,655 lives would be saved — more than the total number of fatalities on the nation 's roads each year . |
| 19 | unc The number of figures after the point in the answer must always equal the total number of figures behind the point in the numbers which are to be multiplied . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Gradually the western territories became part of the Union , and the admission of Arizona and New Mexico in 1912 brought the total number of states to 48 ; the number was increased to 50 in 1959 by the addition of Alaska and Hawaii . |
| 22 | This brings the total number of birds in the UK to around 40 . |
| 23 | The left visual field would normally project to the hemisphere which is absent in this patient ; n above each bar refers to the total number of trials with that target . |
| 24 | They represented about half the total number of families of the country and more than 60 per cent of the population , and were those which were most afflicted by the economic ravages of the inter-war years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This would bring the total number of hours under both orders down to 240 . |
| 29 | Held : The Court had held in Evans ( 1976 ) 64 Cr.App.R. 127 that there was no reason why consecutive community service orders should not be made , but the total number of hours to which the offender was subject should not exceed , as a matter of principle , 240 at any one time . |
| 30 | 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 . |