Example sentences of "[prep] the number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the figures do not account for the numbers of unreported cases . |
| 2 | For most of the period 1279 to 1327 , we have documentary evidence for the numbers of dies made and coinage struck at the mints of London and Canterbury . |
| 3 | In February 1962 , Eddie McAteer asked Minister of Health and Local Government W. J. Morgan for the numbers of houses which the corporation and the NIHT expected to finish in Derry that year . |
| 4 | The habitats dealt with here are primarily of importance for the numbers of wildfowl and waders present during the winter months and at times of passage . |
| 5 | Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match . |
| 6 | Providing copious statistics for the numbers of bombers dispatched , those that reached their targets and those that did not for one reason or another , this book is a complete overview of a major aspect of the air war against mainland Germany . |
| 7 | These demographic forecasts for the numbers of older people are much more reliable as these people are already born . |
| 8 | There are no exact figures for the numbers of Salvadoreans who have been forced to leave their homes because of the civil war , Some are economic refugees , but the great majority have fled because of the repression . |
| 9 | In the table at the right of Figure 1 I have given rough figures for the numbers of neurons and synapses in the human neocortex . |
| 10 | The Galletti references are confusing , in that some are marked as page references ( sometimes incorrectly ) while others refer to the Roman numeration in the 19th-century edition ; and it seems dangerous to rely on Francesco Luisi for the numbers of the literary sources of the laude in question . |
| 11 | The second Act required every maintained school to have a governing body , and set a formula for the numbers of parent , voluntary body and LEA representatives , which depended on the type and size of the school . |
| 12 | Toy manufacturers also have to think ahead in order to cater for the numbers of school children and babies . |
| 13 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ The reason we chose Stewart Park for the roadshow was because car parking was far easier for the numbers of people we would expect . |
| 14 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 15 | For the number of someone to talk to telephone 081–455 8894 ( recorded message ) . |
| 16 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 17 | When Jack Hobbs was approaching W. G. Grace 's record for the number of first-class centuries the massive attention of the press actually caused him a brief loss of form . |
| 18 | In an almost throw-away sentence the book gives one of the highest figures for the number of those whom Stalin killed or imprisoned during collectivisation and the purges : ‘ According to preliminary estimates , the total number of victims of the repressions was around 40 million . ’ |
| 19 | Accurate figures for the number of animals caught in these remote freezing areas are hard to collect , but those we do know show the situation to be alarming . |
| 20 | Think in terms of ease more than possibility of movement for the number of people you anticipate . |
| 21 | At last I got through , demanded an ambulance , and had to ask Masha for the number of the room . |
| 22 | WALES holds the record among the regions for the number of organisations actively involving themselves in getting new lines opened , new stations added and services improved . |
| 23 | Critics of Scottish devolution have argued that it will inevitably lead to demands for the number of Scottish MPs to be cut by between 15 and 20 . |
| 24 | Effective : In an attempt to make distribution more controllable and easier , for the administrator rather than the user , it is common for the number of products distributed to be restricted . |
| 25 | Find a transformation suitable for the number of people per doctor . |
| 26 | These include : defining suitable values for the number of simulations required in a GIS environment rather than a statistical hypothesis-testing one ; assessing the utility of kernel estimators as an approximation that may allow smaller numbers of simulations to be used ; investigating the possibility of predicting the final output regions without performing large numbers of simulations ; and investigating possible hardware solutions to speed up the simulation process . |
| 27 | The farmers are also helped by a Government subsidy for the number of livestock they keep on the uplands . |
| 28 | One of his successors , Lord Fisher , explained that gaiters were for the restriction of blood circulation and possibly accounted for the number of swollen heads among their wearers , but he added that , ‘ I myself find them a very comfortable kind of bondage ’ . |
| 29 | George also holds the record for the number of goals scored in a single season from the flank with a fabulous 22 goals in 1927–28 . |
| 30 | Look in the telephone directory for the number of your local health authority , who can give you the address of your nearest menopausal clinic and ask , when you speak to the clinic , whether they will accept you without a doctor 's referral . |