Example sentences of "the number [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] " 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 | Though the number of cases where a link between HIV/AIDS and child sexual abuse has been made is relatively small , the long-term implications can not be ignored . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do not include in that 70 the number of occasions when the hon. Members for Brightside and for Dagenham have said contradictory things . |