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

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1 The number of surfaces where the test applies is extremely limited and includes :
2 Hd ( x , y ) is the number of positions where the two tuples have different entries .
3 The number of families where the head of household faced an implicit marginal tax rate greater than 70% in fact doubled after 1988 to over half a million .
4 A spokesman said they had been overwhelmed by the number of applications when the new disability living benefit was announced and said it had taken longer than anticipated to sort out .
5 Mike Eveling , of the Inland Revenue , said : ‘ If we iron out problems now we will reduce our own workload by cutting the number of appeals when the values are announced . ’
6 Ideally one could construct a model of the fossil to test out these various functions in experiments , but the number of examples where the analysis has been pursued this far are limited .
7 The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small .
8 I do not include in that 70 the number of occasions when the hon. Members for Brightside and for Dagenham have said contradictory things .
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