Example sentences of "number of [noun sg] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were four such systems : Acorn , Pin , Mosaic and Superprofiles , all of which took a number of census variables and turned them into groups . |
| 2 | The very exhaustive treatise Contemporary Percussion by Reginald Smith Brindle ( O.U.P. ) goes in great detail into the technique of writing for and playing a vast number of percussion instruments and contains quotations from many modern works , as well as a 45 rpm recording of the sounds of many of the tuned and untuned instruments which have been used by modern composers . |
| 3 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 4 | Following his appointment Lee immediately announced that he intended to close the DSC interrogation bureau , reduce the total number of intelligence agents and streamline the organization 's structure . |
| 5 | Its amazing the number of computer users that pick up a pen or pencil to take a telephone message when they 're sitting in front of a working PC ! |
| 6 | One of the chief effects of enclosure was to reduce the number of yeoman farmers and to increase the number of landless workers . |
| 7 | The three parties signed on Oct. 19 a formal coalition agreement which included commitments to relax citizenship legislation , to establish a nationwide state broadcasting service , to reduce the number of government ministries and to cut government staff . |
| 8 | She submitted a list of 16 queries , including ones on annual figures on deliveries , the average number of internal examinations , the average number of scans per pregnancy , details on pain relief in labour , and the number of caesarian sections or forceps deliveries . |
| 9 | In practice variations so caused are few : in every land the total number of list seats nearly always turns out to be either the same as the total number of constituency seats or to differ from it by only one or two . |
| 10 | By concentrating on that , they 've not only improved their service level remarkably but they 've also reduced their stock levels at a number of warehousing points and reduced their cost structure . ’ |
| 11 | To reduce the central directorate to a small number of enterprise directors and to limit their influence ; |
| 12 | With the number of pilot schemes that preceded the introduction of statutory LMS , many heads now have considerable experience of the issues traditionally addressed by LEAs . |
| 13 | Working with the BRE and with TRADA , he carried out a number of pilot schemes and produced a manual of timber frame design and construction . |
| 14 | Fig. 6. 19 shows the improvement that can be achieved in 80/20 type files — those in which 80 per cent of the accesses are to 20 per cent of the records — for buckets holding one , two , three and four records over a wide range of packing densities , and Table 6.8 provides figures for a number of bucket sizes and packing densities . |
| 15 | In recent decades the most important factors have probably been the increasing number of home owners and rises in house prices . |
| 16 | the number of test cases that have failed to date due to errors . |
| 17 | The two most immediate priorities are to increase the number of Society members and to provide more classes , which , of course , means training more teachers . |
| 18 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 19 | There is a growing trend in the textile trade for designers to make use of computer-aided design , in order to explore a greater number of design ideas and to shorten lead times on production . |
| 20 | However , it is quicker , more convenient , and produces social control more economically , to deal with a small number of organization leaders than to seek to achieve a dialogue directly with citizens . |
| 21 | In addition , the program tallies the number of punctuation marks and calculates the average space between them . |
| 22 | n , Number of AER forelimb or hindlimb pairs analysed . |
| 23 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 24 | There are often complaints of bullying in primary schools and there have been a number of research studies that have highlighted the problem . |
| 25 | The young Einstein was unable to find an academic position , went to work in the Bern patent office , and in one incredible year ( 1905 ) , at the age of 26 , wrote a number of research papers that laid the foundations of no less than three major branches of modern physics — statistical mechanics , the quantum theory and special relativity . |
| 26 | In the mid 1970s , for example , the police fell out with a number of crime reporters and charged them in separate proceedings with a variety of criminal offences . |
| 27 | But there are a number of crime novels that make use of the immediate past to excellent effect ( Gladys Mitchell 's Late , Late in the Evening is one ) , and if the root causes of today 's events are something that set your imagination bubbling then perhaps this is the sort of book you would be best to write . |
| 28 | The number of information sources that exist only in electronic form continues to multiply . |
| 29 | It was Stellar ( 1954 ) who put the finger on the hypothalamus as the seat of motivation , basing his arguments on a number of lesion studies that had shown quite specific disturbances of motivation after lesions in this region . |
| 30 | He says the plan will be to open up a number of railway lines and connect local communities and they 'll make good family cycling ; not the steep gradients mountain bikers like , but nice gradients related to the old gradients of the railway lines . |