Example sentences of "[adj] number of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 2 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |
| 3 | Take the 7th root of the average number of paths through our mid class utterances in order to estimate the average number of words over each region of the intended word : |
| 4 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 5 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |
| 6 | We have however entered a large number of competitions over the years : the FA Cup , FA Vase , County Shield , Debenhams Floodlit Cup and the Sherpa Tensing Van Trophy to name but a few . |
| 7 | Bourdieu , though less witty and stylish , achieves a large number of advances over Veblen 's account in terms of the sophistication of his analysis and his ability to move this critique away from the characterization of a particular segment of the population to the analysis of French society as a whole , and from simple emulation and display to complex forces of strategy and social reproduction . |
| 8 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 9 | Councils have had an enormous amount of money through their hands , and have spent it in an equally enormous number of areas over the past 12 years . |
| 10 | Issued in part as a response to the growing number of appeals over controversial retail , industrial and other developments in sensitive areas . |
| 11 | A growing number of disputes over building contracts has inevitably led to more cases coming before the courts or arbitrators . |
| 12 | It will be difficult or impossible to establish a course of dealing on the basis of a small number of transactions over a long period . |
| 13 | Of course , the increase in the total number of firms over the period was not one third , but two thirds — to nearly 3 million , or an average increase of almost 500 every working day . |
| 14 | The maximum number of years over which a mortgage can be taken . |