Example sentences of "[prep] the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As on Dartmoor , there were ancient tenements , in Withypoole and Hawkridge , and complex arrangements for the number of cattle which could be agisted on the commons . |
| 2 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that nothing is more insulting to women — whether it is said by women or men — than talk of setting targets for the number of women to be in top posts ? |
| 4 | Examining July 1992 figures for the number of women councillors in district , regional and island councils , Labour had 703 of the 1,681 seats , of which 132 , or 19 per cent , were held by women . |
| 5 | As I cycled faster and faster each morning as my legs grew stronger , I would imagine myself to be beating a world record for the number of times anyone could ride round our yard in one morning . |
| 6 | If the results are corrected for the number of alleles screened , the significance of the reported associations disappears . |
| 7 | The ‘ slow growth ’ fields include palaeontology , where the doubling rate ( the time taken for the number of papers to double ) is 35 years , whereas rapidly changing research areas such as marine geology and geophysics may double every five years . |
| 8 | Now when it asks you for the sample statement , ah done it , right before , it will ask you for the sample statement er over what period would you like to estimate this equation , right instead of pressing the return key which gives you the default , right , if you specify nineteen twenty three to nineteen forty sorry just a a dash between it like that nineteen twenty three space nineteen forty okay it asks you for the number of observations to be used in the structural stability tests , right , erm if you er press the default er if you press the return key then it should give you the maximum number available right five observations in this case right and then it will perform the regression over the entire sample period , those will be the results you obtain , right , it will also er present Chow erm test statistics . |
| 9 | If you are not too bothered erm , if you do n't know a priori where the break comes , you can just split the sample size in half and just estimate erm an equation for each , not less , you wo n't but the computer will , if you just specify half the sample size , right , and when it asks for the number of observations failure or Chow tests you just press the return key and it will use all the remaining observations , right , but when you are doing the empirical work you should always test for structural stability , right , and er either of Chow 's tests will , will suffice , right , but if you 've got a very small stock sample where there are fewer observations than there are parameters to be estimated you will have to use Chow 's second test failure . |
| 10 | ‘ Certified normal accommodation ’ ( CNA ) , the official figures for the number of prisoners which the system can officially cater for without overcrowding , allowed for 45,268 prisoners . |
| 11 | On the basis of the figures given for the number of infants requiring blood transfusion there is no significant difference between the two groups for either ventilated infants or all infants ( χ 2 test , two by two analysis ) . |
| 12 | The ‘ doubling time ’ , defined as the taken for the number of theses per year to double , is somewhere between 12 and 15 years , so that within the 24 years covered by the present study , the population has only doubled once . |
| 13 | They then analyse the interrelationship of these data using various statistical techniques in an effort to isolate the importance of the various factors for the number of hours worked . |
| 14 | Gary Speed is now top of the list for the number of letters sent in asking for signed photos since batty left , closely followed by Macca , Strach and Deane . |
| 15 | For the number of biomorphs in the land is half a trillion , and if no one of them is any more probable as a destination than any other , the odds of jumping to any particular one are small enough to ignore . |
| 16 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 17 | For the number of members required for a quorum , see s.5(3) . |
| 18 | It also points out in in in in the report , that this income has been to meet expenditure of thirty-two thousand pounds for the number of services , and the remainder of this , has been with additional insurance costs . |
| 19 | Merely to stand in such a position will give you some idea of the strain such a position exerts on the groin and accounts for the number of injuries Wasim has incurred in that region . |
| 20 | I think it 's they look for the number of stamps used rather if it 's what you |
| 21 | Statistics for the number of recipients of all benefits are not collected on a regional basis . |
| 22 | He had become increasingly unhappy about the trackway theory , feeling it to be insufficient to account for the number of leys which seemed to exist , the tendency for parallel systems , the intersection of many leys at a single site , and the phenomenon which he discovered of patterns of concentric circles . |
| 23 | I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’ |
| 24 | Prospective payment systems have the advantage that health care suppliers are paid for the number of cases treated and are encouraged to be aware of the costs per case . |
| 25 | Jean Parmiter apologised on behalf of the Training Committee for the number of changes which had had to be made in the advertised programmes for the training days in 1981–82 . |
| 26 | The autoradiograph was analysed by densitometry , the area under each trace was calculated and the values corrected for the number of methionines in each protein . |
| 27 | Subsequent appeals to the courts by disappointed students led the federal government to devise complex formulas that fix minima for the number of students each university department must take . |
| 28 | I make no apology for the number of committees that we have and I make no apology for the numbers on the committee . |
| 29 | I can tell you you 're in for some trouble if you start that because I I is you you 're all in trouble if you want to start these smaller committees , we have looked at the committees and as I say we make no apology for the number of committees or the number that 's on 'em . |
| 30 | Birmingham City 's Peter Crawford , who claimed a ‘ school record ’ for the number of suspensions from Mirfield Secondary School , was taken , along with other pupils , to the then Aston Manor Club ( now Aston Villa ABC ) by ‘ a school teacher called Kane who 'd boxed for Ireland at one stage ’ . |