Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of eggs a female lays , however , largely depends upon when she starts . |
| 2 | The number of prisoners a section has accumulated during a shift is used as a measure of performance and becomes one of the bases of competition between the sections . |
| 3 | Mitzi , who was Brown Owl 's assistant , told them when asked that there was no limit to the number of bridesmaids a bride could have , but that two or three was most usual , for various reasons that she explained . |
| 4 | Prout in nineteen ninety two a hundred and seventy patients and again found the number of tumours the most important feature . |
| 5 | As we saw in Chapter 10 , intermediate forms of imperfect competition require some economies of scale to limit the number of firms an industry can support . |
| 6 | The number of relatives a person may be expected to have is of importance to all students of kinship and the family in the past and in the present , and especially to those concerned with kinship support of the elderly . |
| 7 | Chapter 9 , however , relates to the special features within a markedly different environment of industrial relations in Third World , developing countries , where not only is the state the largest single employer and the number of wage-earners a small part of the economically active population , but in addition the trade unions perform a dual role . |
| 8 | Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring . |
| 9 | Some data analysts prefer to use the outer quarters ( Open University 1983 ) ; the larger the number of cases the less the decision matters . |
| 10 | The conventional family division of labour not only reduces the number of hours a woman is available for paid work but also reduces the amount she could expect to earn per hour even in a non-discriminatory labour market . |
| 11 | The number of hours a week worked by juniors has come down by about 10 hours since the Labour party was in power . |
| 12 | The need for the recommendation of a high-ranking scholar provided a control on the quality of the intake-as long , of course , as the scholar were reasonably honest-while the quantity could be controlled by altering a number of factors , for example , the period at which the regular investiture took place , the number of ceremonial occasions on which special investitures might occur or the number of students the holder of any given office might invest as Interesting , though extremely belated , attempts to control both the quality and the quantity of are represented by two decrees of the year 1715 , by which time the system had very nearly completely broken down . |
| 13 | Thus the Avrami exponent is the sum of the order of the rate process and the number of dimensions the morphological unit possesses . |
| 14 | Another suggestion is that they were put there by shepherds so that they could find their way off the fell in bad weather , the idea being that by the number of cairns the shepherds would be able to tell where they were and by the pattern they could know which direction to follow . |
| 15 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 16 | However , if the score is less than five , you will need to increase the amount of time spent or the number of times a week you practise it . |
| 17 | The dilution factor : the number of times a sample of the odorous gas has to be diluted with odour-free air before 50 per cent of the panel of the six observers will just NOT detect an odour . |
| 18 | What does it profit us to list the number of times a mother rubs her baby 's back when we really want to know if she did it with affection or out of nervousness ? |
| 19 | It must not rely on the measurement of subjective impressions such as the number of times a child annoyed a parent ; it must be concerned with observable behaviour . |
| 20 | These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) . |
| 21 | To confine the interaction to what is known is the safest course , and there are limits to the number of times a teacher can reply — as primary teachers are encouraged to — ‘ I do n't know , but let's find out , shall we ? ’ without straining their credibility and frustrating their pupils . |
| 22 | A small button underneath the mouse can be pressed to reveal which channel it is set to by counting the number of times a neighbouring LED blinks . |
| 23 | The number of times a region was labelled as one of the above classes is shown as a percentage of the actual phonemes in the hand transcriptions . |
| 24 | The ability to determine this level , referred to as the ‘ odour threshold detection value ’ is provided by dilution techniques , the value itself representing the number of times an odour-bearing gas has to be diluted with clear air before 50 per cent of a panel of sniffers will just not detect it . |
| 25 | In the singulative mode there is a balance between the number of times an event occurs and the number of times it is narrated ( an event occurring once is narrated once and an event occurring x times is narrated x times ) . |
| 26 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 27 | The odds of an outcome are given by dividing the number of times the outcome occurred by the number of times it did not occur . |
| 28 | A scale was formed by simply scoring the number of times the respondent said that he or she was satisfied ; the resulting scale started with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 6 , but it was dichotomized at the median value into a scale of political alienation with two values ( high and low ) . |
| 29 | Spraying commences in May and continues right up until the harvest , although the number of times the vines are sprayed and the types of spray used will depend on the local conditions of pests and disease . |
| 30 | The higher the premium is on conversion then the more the issue will be treated as a fixed interest investment and valued on a yield basis , with attention given to the financial strength of the issuing company and the number of times the interest/dividend payment is covered by available profits . |