Example sentences of "the number of [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each authority will be responding to its local conditions , the numbers of SSD homes it has kept in reserve to manage the market , the extent to which it has created quasi-independent trusts , and the number of private beds in its locality . |
| 2 | Sampling saves time , labour and , therefore , money and by reducing the numbers of cases involved it allows for a concentration of effort on high quality information about the smaller number of cases involved . |
| 3 | Geneva states that in the 1980s , ‘ IVF and allied procedures changed from being purely experimental in character to become accepted treatments for certain types of infertility and the numbers of centres offering them increased rapidly ’ . |
| 4 | If a lifestyle can be accurately described , and the numbers of people following it quantified , then marketers can assign and target products and promotion upon this particular target life.style group . |
| 5 | From the number of resonances observed we conclude that d ( TG 4 T ) associates as a tetraplex with fourfold symmetry . |
| 6 | The number of listed companies rose by 428 during the four years , but the number of firms auditing them fell by 39 . |
| 7 | In other words , in a given time , the number of particles leaving the liquid equals the number of particles entering it . |
| 8 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 9 | GP Sandy Jordan , 63 , blasted the hearing as ‘ victimisation ’ after being asked to explain the number of night calls he makes . |
| 10 | As a result , the walls built so far in Scotland have proved inadequate for the number of people using them . |
| 11 | In the last two decades the number of people saying they could no longer do jobs about the house or enjoy their hobbies because of sickness has steadily risen . |
| 12 | This point emphasises why it has been so difficult to control the overall cost of benefits , which depends on both the level of benefits provided and the number of people claiming them . |
| 13 | This figure is known as the ‘ unit cost ’ , and is arrived at simply by dividing the total amount spent on a service ( e.g. nursery schools ) by the number of children using it ( expressed as ‘ full-time equivalents ’ , so that two part-time children would count as one full-time equivalent ) . |
| 14 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 15 | Return I do n't quite unders can somebody tell me what each indiv I mean basically I would have expected to see the money earned divided by the , the number of staff telling me how much |