Example sentences of "number of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A member who made less than 10 per cent of the average number of dealings in the year immediately preceding the general meeting may not exercise his voting right . |
| 2 | Only use this latter method if the number of stitches in the repeat divides exactly into the number of stitches across the body ( plus one stitch each side of the seam allowance ) . |
| 3 | When knitting a garment in all over pattern , the two facts i always take into account when positioning the N1 cam are firstly , the number of stitches in the pattern and secondly , the number of stitches required for the garment piece . |
| 4 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 5 | ‘ I get satisfaction from being able to be involved in a number of activities in the part of the world where |
| 6 | Quality Assurance : a number of activities in the Department of Highways have been quality assured in the past year . |
| 7 | His knowledge of coalmining and the geology of the north of England coalfields was now such that his assistance was frequently called upon by mine owners and speculators , and he acquired interests in a number of mines in the area . |
| 8 | Table 6.2 shows the number of addresses that have been allocated the stated number of records per address ( up to seven ) , and the percentage of the total number of records in the file that was successfully allocated by each of the six algorithms used by Kaimann . |
| 9 | For any user approaching an index or a computerized information retrieval system , there will be a number of records in the system relevant to the topic of his search , while the remainder will be of no interest on that occasion . |
| 10 | Among dock , river and waterside workers such a movement took place in a number of ports in the 1870s and culminated in the great Liverpool dock strike of 1879 . |
| 11 | The idea of using contract hire to increase the number of lorries in the Meet without a huge outflow of capital reserves deserves careful consideration . |
| 12 | The CBI also called for heavier lorries — up to 44 tonnes — to be permitted in Britain , on the grounds that this would reduce the overall number of lorries in the country by 9,000 . |
| 13 | The number of departments in the ministry and their functions changed frequently during the century ; but there was a general tendency for them to become more numerous . |
| 14 | The department has collaborative research programmes with the Department of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences and Veterinary Pathology in the School of Veterinary Medicine , with a number of departments in the School of Medicine and the School of Agriculture and also with the Moredun Research Institute , and the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the AFRC . |
| 15 | One of the laws of the jungle is that the greater the number of groups in the competitive struggle , for each to secure bigger increases than the others , the faster will wages rise . ’ |
| 16 | The probability of choosing an area was proportional to the number of births in the area . |
| 17 | Figure 2.4 shows how the number of births in the United Kingdom has varied from year to year since 1964 , when it reached its highest figure since the 1920s . |
| 18 | Thus , by the end of the decade , the number of institutions in the public sector concerned with teacher training was substantially reduced , at least fourteen colleges had closed altogether , over sixty had merged with polytechnics and other further education institutions , a few had joined universities , and even those that remained ‘ free-standing ’ , that is untouched by institutional reorganization , found themselves offering a diversified range of courses including teacher training , thereby fundamentally altering their academic role . |
| 19 | In addition to media production , the centre has developed a number of programmes in the areas of media research and training . |
| 20 | This brings the total number of birds in the UK to around 40 . |
| 21 | A bird in the hand is never worth an infinite number of birds in the bush . |
| 22 | Wirral Ranger Services principal officer Jim Lester said : ‘ The number of cocklers in the estuary is much lower than it has been , partly due to the cockle beds being reduced . |
| 23 | Erm , now bearing in mind that half the year has gone , or will have gone by the time anybody arrived here , erm it seemed to me that where I , my analysis of that situation was that if we were going to achieve our target times , erm , then the theory would seem to be that we ought to make , er , two appointments now , I E two appointments for half the year will be equivalent to one appointment for the year , and that will produce the number of investigative hours which roughly that the formula says we need to knock off the required number of complaints in the required number of times . |
| 24 | A disproportionate number of visits in the late evening were to young children . |
| 25 | Coun. John Williams ( Lab ) , leader of the council , said a number of aims in the fields of pollution , transport , development , energy , waste management and public health would be met by the development of a council policy on the environment . |
| 26 | In the tropics and subtropics this varies depending on the duration and number of periods in the year when rainfall and temperature permit high pasture levels of H. contortus larvae to develop . |
| 27 | Reiman ( 1979 : 75 ) estimates that in 1972 the number of persons in the USA dying from occupational hazards ( diseases and accidents ) was 114,000 , whereas only 20,600 died from being shot , cut , beaten , or poisoned , and being recorded as a homicide case . |
| 28 | If he cares to count the number of persons in the Chamber , including you , Mr. Speaker , the Chairman of Ways and Means and his Clerk , he will find that there are 16 . |
| 29 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 30 | These included meetings with Saadi Mahdi Saleh ( President of the Iraqi Parliament ) ; Taha Yasseen Ramadan ( Vice Prime Minister of Iraq ) ; Latif Nasseef Gassem ( Minister of Information ) ; Ghanem Aziz ( Vice President of the Parliament ) ; a number of deputies in the parliament , both men and women ; Nawal El Ghazaui ( Vice Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation ) ; Haifa Abdel Rahman ; Ilham El Zoubedi ; Azza Kobba and other women in the Federation . |