Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the amount , just the number along side there . |
| 2 | Last year the number of bookings actually doubled , ’ he added . |
| 3 | According to the US Mortgage Bankers ' Association , the number of homeowners more than 30 days behind in their repayments fell in the second quarter of the year to its lowest level in 10 years . |
| 4 | The strike was never solid , supported by all NUM members , and as it progressed so the number of miners still holding out diminished . |
| 5 | Some parts of the country showed more significant growth than others : on the east coast , the number of sailings not only rose in absolute terms between the 1460s and the early sixteenth century , but the proportion of those by English ships approximately doubled , although there were some exports which were largely carried in foreign vessels . |
| 6 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 7 | The number of demonstrators outside on Victory Square had grown , meanwhile , to about 8,000 . |
| 8 | According to figures released by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and published in Le Monde of May 2 , the number of refugees worldwide was expected to exceed 15,000,000 during 1991 . |
| 9 | I refer to figures published by the Minister on 12 November , in which she sets out the number of prisoners currently held in police cells . |
| 10 | Since the important variable in population size is always the number of females rather than the number of males ( because one male can impregnate a large number of females but any female can only manage one pregnancy at a time ) , selective forces determine that the daytime gelada social structure is one in which a single dominant male forages with an attendant group of females and young . |
| 11 | Fighting my way through the milling crowds of private view enthusiasts which announce the opening of this years round of degree shows , my curiosity was aroused by the number of women consistently achieving standards of excellence . |
| 12 | The number of surfaces where the test applies is extremely limited and includes : |
| 13 | Incidentally , it enables the Census Dissemination Unit to monitor use of the data easily , both by counting the number of users currently registered and by using the project accounting package VMACCOUNT to find out the amount of CPU time which has been used and by whom . |
| 14 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 15 | The larger the number of firms already supplying a market and the more difficult it is for them to collude , the more competition there is likely to be . |
| 16 | To determine to which technical level an element belongs , one needs only to count the number of nodes downwards from the origin ( each element constitutes a node ) : the unique first element constitutes level 1 , all elements one node removed from the origin constitute level 2 , all elements two nodes removed constitute level 3 , and so on ( in a non-branching hierarchy , there is only one element at each level ) : |
| 17 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
| 18 | The judge found as a fact that the flats were ‘ substantially completed ’ and that payment was due to the plaintiff in respect of the number of flats substantially completed , which left an outstanding amount due from the defendants to the plaintiff in the absence of the payment of which the plaintiff was entitled to remove from the site . |
| 19 | If the pattern in Northern Ireland is the same as in the rest of the United Kingdom , the Minister will know that the number of persons there subsequently convicted under the Act is very small . |
| 20 | This tends to increase the number of offspring successfully reared by the beaver . |
| 21 | A successful subscription ‘ enabled us to exceed the number of plates originally proposed ’ . |
| 22 | The complexity increases as the square of the number of components so that simple analysis techniques can not be employed and catastrophe theory and perturbation analysis are examples of appropriate analysis procedures . |
| 23 | The probability of selecting the original address had been proportional to the number of electors originally on the register ; this was a sensible procedure if the number of electors had not changed . |
| 24 | In subsequent analysis , therefore , all responses from individuals at addresses which had changed electors were weighted by the number of adults at the address divided by the number of electors originally on the register for that address . |
| 25 | But I think the other incredibly important thing that you said was about the number of boys here from public schools as well and I think that |
| 26 | The number of boys quickly exceeded 250 — by the end of the year there were 256 ; by the end of the decade , 324 . |
| 27 | In 1992 , the number of injuries worldwide that caused employees to lose working time fell by [ 10% ] . |
| 28 | However , when the message did not allow unambiguous identification but instead could have referred to one of two items in the array , the number of shifts almost doubled in number . |
| 29 | The number of teams more than doubled as word spread round the pubs , and £120 was raised through sponsorship for charity . |
| 30 | Hd ( x , y ) is the number of positions where the two tuples have different entries . |