Example sentences of "the number of [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of signatories to the letter — and up to 50 other House Democrats might agree with its terms , as well as perhaps 25–30 of the 56 Democratic senators — means that a ‘ UN ’ resolution could pass Congress only with a majority small enough to be politically unacceptable , and might well fail . |
| 2 | It would be desirable if we could reduce the number of smokers to the level found in the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 3 | It 's about the number of keys to the Cathedral . |
| 4 | He would make an annual report to parliament giving the number of exemptions to the basic ‘ pain condition ’ which he had allowed in the year . |
| 5 | In order to ensure an injunction will be available the vendor will wish to restrict the number of exemptions to the confidentiality obligation and hence minimise the risk of the injunction being overturned . |
| 6 | The allocation of the number of broadcasts to the parties is a somewhat contentious one . |
| 7 | Statistics for the years 1975 to 1987 show an 18 per cent drop in the number of visitors to the palaces , while the National Trust has seen a 48 per cent rise . |
| 8 | For example , the number of visitors to the Department of the Environment 's Ancient Monuments rose from 6.8 million in 1960 to 15.4 million in 1972 ; visitors to National Trust properties also increased in number from 1.02 million to 3.9 million over the same period . |
| 9 | last year , but the Northern Ireland tourist board is working with Bord Failte on a joint marketing programme designed to increase the number of visitors to the island of Ireland as a whole . |
| 10 | During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level . |
| 11 | During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level . |
| 12 | Since the number of visitors to the Exhibition Room is noted as a matter of routine at all times of the year , in theory no special effort had to be made to record the number of potential respondents . |
| 13 | Between 1870 and 1879 , the number of births to the families of male manual workers was 25 per cent higher than those to non-manual families , but this widened to 42 per cent for the period 1910–1924 . |
| 14 | The number of lines to the inch controls the coarseness of the final dot formation . |
| 15 | We can not completely rule out that treatment outcome would have been better if all patients would have received continued care and reinforcement by the investigator , but our study showed that there was no correlation between the number of visits to the Encopresis Clinic and treatment outcome ( p>0.1 ) . |
| 16 | On Feb. 24 Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the national conference , indicated that Nguza had abandoned the round table idea but was still expected to demand a reduction in the number of delegates to the conference . |
| 17 | The number of representations to the Home Office is running at 700 to 800 a year , but only about five of those cases are referred to the Court of Appeal . |
| 18 | A commonly cited piece of evidence for urban decline is the number of petitions to the Crown for relief from taxation , and equally common is the view of historians that these must be regarded with caution , as the towns were liable to paint their poverty in lurid terms , and to emulate each other in their appeals . |
| 19 | The number of steps to the ladder and number of trials for each step is negotiable , but the general principle of graded systematic exposure , facing up to the difficulty and learning to cope with it , holds for each of these cases . |
| 20 | During acceleration the number of steps to the target ( COUNT ) is compared to the number of deceleration values ( DECVAL ) . |
| 21 | This is because increasing the proportion of left handers in the overall population by shifting the criterion to the right takes in a larger segment of the RS — distribution , but this segment constitutes a changing proportion of the number of individuals to the left of this criterion ( i.e. the left handers ) . |
| 22 | Thus , the extent of habituation increases with the number of exposures to the stimulus and so does the magnitude of latent inhibition ( e.g. Lubow 1965 ; Lubow , Markman , and Allen 1968 ; Lantz 1973 ) . |
| 23 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |