Example sentences of "[subord] the number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under proportional representation — the rule of all other EC member states — the British Greens would have been the largest national group in the Strasbourg Green firmament , where the number of those who regarded themselves as in some way Green had risen from 11 to 43 . |
| 2 | It can be seen that there is a wide variation , especially where the number of dies in a year is small . |
| 3 | This Darwinian recipe for solving the Travelling Salesman Problem has proved incredibly effective , rapidly finding the shortest routes between scores of towns , where the number of possible routes is so large it could never be written down . |
| 4 | Therefore , exposure to concentrations over and above the TLV may be permitted where the number of hours of exposure is less than those referred to above . |
| 5 | ‘ We are moving into an economic environment where the number of scheme members , the increasing number of pensioners , and the high level of holdings in the equity of public companies by pension funds mean that a situation of uncertainty is undesirable . |
| 6 | Digital variation ( where the number of elements in a motif varies ) |
| 7 | It can alternatively be stored in an array where the number of array elements is the number of words in the lexicon . |
| 8 | It does n't take a BSc to work it out , especially for a chunky machine where the number of rows given is often very few . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , especially in experimental work , cases often arise where the number of equations exceeds the number of unknowns . |
| 10 | Section 6(3) ( a ) envisages a school where the number of applicants for admission exceeds the available places . |
| 11 | In order to construct an arbitrage transaction where the number of futures exactly offsets the basket of shares in the index , it is necessary to be able to hold shares or futures in fractional quantities , which is not possible . |
| 12 | There should be nothing surprising about this : in a competitive market , where the number of would-be senior academics considerably exceeds the posts available , an ‘ objective ’ means is required to allocate the scarce goods . |
| 13 | Those working with invertebrates , such as Lamarck and Darwin , or with plants , such as Gray and Hooker , where the number of species was vastly greater than among vertebrates , were perhaps driven towards some more dynamic conception of a species , as something changing over time . |
| 14 | Sometimes the relationship is obvious , as in Alban Berg 's Lyric Suite , where the number of beats and bars , even metronome indications , are largely based on the number 23 and its multiples . |
| 15 | Where the number of shareholders is manageable , or the firm is undertaking the whole of the word processing , then it may be appropriate to arrange for mailing direct from the firm . |
| 16 | Reflecting the rapid spread of AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region , the Malaysian government in September 1989 announced it would begin random blood testing of Malaysian nationals returning from Thailand ( where the number of HIV-infected people was the highest in the region ) . |
| 17 | To illustrate , if an individual buys 10 ST3 contracts at 90.50 and closes the position 20 days later with a reversing sale of 10 contracts at 90.55 , the profit is , where the number of ticks gain is 5 ( i.e. ( 90.55 — 90.50 ) /0.01 , where 0.01 is the tick size ) . |
| 18 | Despite the above , it still remains valid that the importance of the covariances between the returns of securities is the mot effective method of reducing risk where the number of shares in a portfolio is necessarily limited . |
| 19 | Where the number of shares is exceeded by the number of options written , the position is known as a partially covered hedge . |
| 20 | Picture a town in Rwanda where 70% of hospital beds are occupied by patients with HIV-related diseases and where the number of AIDS-associated orphans increases inexorably . |
| 21 | However , the largest increase is recorded in the North , where the number of home-owners has risen almost a third from 48pc in 1981 , to 61pc in 1991 . |
| 22 | Cavaye recommends that caterers buy an extra 10% to 15% more than the number of covers on main items like knives , forks and spoons , double the number for teaspoons and a little over half for fish knives . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , wage costs , maintenance bills and interest charges grew more rapidly than the number of passengers . |
| 24 | But with four nuclear powers , six pairs could quarrel , while five powers provided ten possible pairs and so on , the likelihood of war increasing faster than the number of nuclear players . |
| 25 | It was rumoured that the number of staff who had responded was considerably smaller than the number of participants in the strike claimed by the AUT . |
| 26 | Some parasites of insect eggs , for instance , can stop a small population of pests from increasing , so application of a pesticide has to he timed according to the number of the larvae of the pests rather than the number of their eggs . |
| 27 | In two constituencies , Vale of Glamorgan and Bristol North West , the Tory majority was less than the number of expat voters . |
| 28 | The Tory , David Harris , held the seat by a mere 1,645 votes — less than the number of postal and proxy votes ( 3,355 ) . |
| 29 | In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people . |
| 30 | Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body . |