Example sentences of "of the [adj] number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Positional accuracy is achieved by means of the equal numbers of teeth on the stator and rotor , which tend to align so as to reduce the reluctance of the stack magnetic circuit . |
| 2 | Do the accounts ( and the notes ) take up less than 30% of the overall number of pages ? |
| 3 | There were no representatives from Contact on any of these committees , although the group constituted almost one-third of the overall number of users at one of the centres and almost one-half at the other two . |
| 4 | Take the 7th root of the average number of paths through our mid class utterances in order to estimate the average number of words over each region of the intended word : |
| 5 | Table 6.4 below gives a series of n th root of the average number of paths for the mid-class , mixed and fine-class sets . |
| 6 | A member who made less than 10 per cent of the average number of dealings in the year immediately preceding the general meeting may not exercise his voting right . |
| 7 | Taking each of his subject categories in turn he divides the total annual issues by the number of books in the category to achieve a nominal figure of the average number of issues per book . |
| 8 | Change for the Angel was one of the increasing number of plays in the late Fifties and early Sixties to confront audiences with working-class culture . |
| 9 | It was followed in 1987 , by ‘ New Directions ’ and ‘ A Transition to Adulthood ’ , in recognition of the increasing number of students with severe learning difficulties in the former case , and of students with considerable physical disabilities in the latter . |
| 10 | Dr Berg has suggested that the spread of family-based cottage manufactures played a part in determining the low status and value of women 's work even though it , and that of the increasing number of children they produced , was both necessary for the manufacture and significant for family earnings . |
| 11 | The order stated that the border post had been closed for " security reasons " because of the increasing number of attacks on tourist convoys by " highway robbers " . |
| 12 | The costs of the increased number of endoscopies after sclerotherapy ( £235 ) are lessl than 10% of those associated with surgery . |
| 13 | However , because of the increased numbers of applicants applying to polytechnics in the past few years , it will most probably decide to implement such a scheme . |
| 14 | Support staff , numerically increased in some areas , but threatened with further reductions in others , are able to reach only a minority of the estimated number of children in need of special attention . |
| 15 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 16 | To round off the evening the pope awarded prizes to the men who had enjoyed the favours of the greatest number of dancers . |
| 17 | Thus to the question ‘ Why do you feel affection for your children ? ’ or ‘ Why are you inclined to assist animals ( or fellow citizens ) in pain ? ’ , it would sound lame and otiose to reply that it is because your children are kind and decent , or that you assist others in the hope that they will assist you , or that you do both to contribute to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of creatures . |
| 18 | The triangular shape gave the maximum protection of the greatest number of traders ; but whether it represents a fairly general type of early plan — say pre-Conquest — I do not know . |
| 19 | Roh also visited Japan in May 1990 to mark the resolution of several outstanding issues between the two countries , including improvements in the position of the substantial number of Koreans resident in Japan , and the acknowledgment of Japanese remorse for the occupation of Korea between 1910 and 1945 [ see p. 37457 ] . |
| 20 | So far as the old , mutually dependent carers are concerned , this work is valuable in reminding us of the substantial numbers of men who perform these functions for their wives . |
| 21 | The use of girls above ground increased after 1815 , but the truth is that we really know very little of the actual numbers of women working in mines . |
| 22 | Martyn referred to Miller 's use of works by those better versed in scientific aspects of gardening , to whom due acknowledgment is given , and concluded with an appreciation of the author 's own industry : ‘ As to the practical part , he has given t is hardly anything but from his own knowledge and of the great number of plants mentioned in his book there are scarce any which he has not cultivated with his own hands . ’ |
| 23 | Depending on the type of stock , as indicated below , stock which is in excess of the relevant number of years ' usage should be provided against as follows : |
| 24 | By doing this , ‘ they have helped to set one area and one group of workers against another in the struggle to obtain a higher share of the inadequate number of jobs available . ’ |
| 25 | I am so convinced that this is a fact I often only half-fill the ‘ feeder so that I can cast more often and take advantage of the extra number of casts and splashes and those thirty-second deadly periods . |
| 26 | The reason for this will become clear when the fossil faunas are examined , for post-depositional breakage of the upper and lower jaws often removes any evidence of the jaws themselves so that only the teeth are left to provide an indication of the former numbers of jaws , and this index attempts to take this into account . |
| 27 | The second is that the person named in it was registered as the holder of the stated number of shares . |
| 28 | The special significance of this number is that a similar long-term cyclic pattern shows up in the record of the changing number of sunspots , modulating the stronger 11 year rhythm . |
| 29 | But the ( pull ) set is only one of many : the others , although often salient , are usually unsuitable for quantification throughout the range of speaker variables because of the low numbers of tokens attested ( many examples are listed in J. Milroy , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | Applied Geology was first used as a category by Rolfe in 1975-77 list , and formed almost one-seventh of the total numbers of theses in the 1984-85 list , probably reflecting changes in research priorities relating to the funding situation . |