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

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1 The allocation of the number of broadcasts to the parties is a somewhat contentious one .
2 I was amazed during a recent visit to headquarters of the number of requests for posters and tickets I saw when I was leafing through that bible , the design it file .
3 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 .
4 I think in this day and age , there is probably a greater propensity to move and consequently there may well be an increased erm amount of vacancies occurring and that was why in our statement , we actually increased the number of vacancies , but I think that is a function of the number of houses on offer at the time .
5 The companies say that the finished product will manage every aspect of software , and all activities relating to software licences , including the all important tracking of the number of copies of an application relative to the number of licences held .
6 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 .
7 However due to the effective doubling of the number of paths through the dawg , making it bi-directional would increase its size ( Appel and Jacobson , 1988 ) .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 ( 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 .
11 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 ) .
12 Irrespective of the number of hours of formal teaching he is called upon to do .
13 The government has announced a near doubling of the number of cases of AIDS among heterosexuals , and says the disease is growing faster in this group than in any other .
14 The corrected sum of the number of cases with congenital abnormalities was calculated as unc where N i is the number of cases with congenital abnormalities out of n i births .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) .
18 Also provided , and not before time , are independent horizontal and vertical rules which means that keeping track of the number of lines of copy on a page is extremely easy , you simply set the vertical ruler scale to be the same as the leading .
19 Every family had to notify the police of the number of members of the family who would be present on the day , and give the names of any guests who would be staying in the house .
20 Our picture shows retail director standing in front of a fraction of the number of lorries at Buntingford depot that the Penny Back Scheme has kept off the road .
21 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 .
22 It is the ratio of the number of moles of gas a to the total number of moles of gas present .
23 The school will be monitored by means of the number of passes at 7 , 11 , and 14 that it can record .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Mr Eggar said : ‘ This has been the largest round , in terms of the number of blocks on offer , since the fourth round in 1972 .
27 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 .
28 The morning journey , in spite of the number of students on board the tram , was usually quiet .
29 It seems unfortunate , to say the least , that the premier public sector institution , in terms of the number of students on advanced courses , should , for a variety of historical and political reasons , have been denied any share in teacher training .
30 Also in 1983 , young women constituted 38 per cent of the number of students in advanced-level courses in polytechnics .
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