Example sentences of "the number of [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , just as the number of women on the list has increased , it is also important to increase the number of women appointed to various positions in the public service ? |
| 2 | Now Hewlett-Packard Co is following Digital Equipment Corp in — as an option — charging for all HP 3000 and HP 9000 software according to the number of users on the machine , regardless of the processor size , the idea being that customers get to pay for what they actually use . |
| 3 | The number of microorganisms on the skin at the time it is cut will depend on how recently the skin was washed or , in the case of surgery , how adequately skin preparation was undertaken . |
| 4 | This enables designers to leave unconnected pins floating and reduces the number of components on the circuit board . |
| 5 | Why do not the Government copy Labour 's policy of supporting our police forces by substantially increasing the number of bobbies on the beat in a self-financing fashion ? |
| 6 | Mr Taylor has already appealed to the Home Office for an extra 20 men in a bid to boost the number of bobbies on the beat . |
| 7 | On the same day each week , note the number of aphids on the plant . |
| 8 | Already , Cohen has isolated more than a thousand contigs , each containing an average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes ( YACs ) and covering more than 70 per cent of the genome , while the number of markers on the map that Weissenbach and his colleagues reported last year has since been more than doubled and is set shortly to double again . |
| 9 | Thus they decided that : the number of governors on the school 's policy-making group , the management board , should be increased by three ; the right of governors to attend the meetings of all other groups in the school 's internal consultative structure would be formalised ; the governors would continue to establish task groups and working parties of their own and these would continue to be open to all teachers . |
| 10 | Mr Organ thinks that the number of sites on the registers is bound to increase . |
| 11 | By 1983 almost all the major areas of the Polytechnic were represented in the modular programme , and the number of students on the modular programme was by now greater than the total numbers of students in some colleges . |
| 12 | Showing them is one thing , but will they be running — indeed what will they run — and will the audience be able to get close enough to count the number of pins on the things ? |
| 13 | In general , it can be shown that for a large sample of size , n , and where all the elements of the matrices and are unrestricted , the statistic : is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , once again , g is the number of restrictions on the model . |
| 14 | The number of dots on the screen ( in this case 640 by 400 ) defines the resolution of the screen . |
| 15 | The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws . |
| 16 | The mountain rescue organisation is getting bigger and it needs to be sustained — there has been a very dramatic escalation in the number of incidents on the hill in the last ten years . |
| 17 | When the number of members on the committee is small , it may be difficult to abide by the proviso that the amendment must be seconded by someone who has not spoken on the original motion , and in that case common sense prevails . |
| 18 | It is true that on the embryonic Budapest Stock Exchange only 10 ( ten ! ) shares were quoted on May 1991 , and the number of deals on the day were only 280 . |
| 19 | The number of walkers on the West Highland Way rose to 90,000 last year , generating income in local communities , but the visitors also brought problems of erosion and litter . |
| 20 | 1 Decide the number of shots on the basis of the budget and the interested media . |
| 21 | Those two would have filled the entire chart but compilers restricted the number of soaps on the list . |
| 22 | The tables below show the number of children on the rolls of two schools in rural districts of Bangladesh . |
| 23 | When the index is computerised it will be practicable to increase greatly the number of names on the index . |
| 24 | Despite the government 's efforts to reduce the number of cars on the roads , the number of new private car registrations has increased from 99 000 in 1989 to 140 000 last year . |
| 25 | Two years ago , the Dutch Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , put forward a plan to reduce the number of cars on the road to fewer than 4 million . |
| 26 | The child has initially been asked to compare the number of cars on the two shelves , and has done so correctly . |
| 27 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 28 | Councillor , my Lord Mayor , in accordance with standing order A seven B and D , I propose to Council that the debate on agenda item eleven , percentage for out policy and agenda item sixteen , notice of motion number nine , people disabilities , be combined with separate votes at the end of the debate and that a provision of the order A eleven J and A fourteen K be amended to limit the number of speakers on the combined debate to three from the controlling group and three from notion parties . |
| 29 | But first of all let me explain how we come to agree the number of booklets on the and the individual financial target per assignment . |
| 30 | The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership . |