Example sentences of "to the number [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's 10 biggest tour operators , according to the number of holidays they are licensed to sell in the year ending March 1990 : 1 . |
| 2 | The general rule is that the efficiency of a country 's intelligence operations is in inverse proportion to the number of agencies it operates . |
| 3 | Under this type of system , each frame of video picture is ‘ labelled ’ with its own reference number relating to the number of hours , minutes , seconds and frames which have elapsed since the beginning of the recording . |
| 4 | Expansion was rapid , as can be appreciated by reference to the number of hours flown annually . |
| 5 | I consider that it would not be appropriate t to adhere too rigidly to the number of hours multiplied by a rate of three pounds fifty per hour suggested by Mr . |
| 6 | The indexer can either be constrained as to the number of themes to index per document , or be given the option of indexing as many themes as possible . |
| 7 | Apart from the obvious welfare problems with snares , there is a wider perspective with regard to the number of badgers and other animals that get caught . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the 5 refers to the 50MHz chip , the 1 to the machines ' 1Mb cache and the 2 and 4 to the number of processors . |
| 9 | Schofield pointed out that failures to find are naturally in proportion to the number of successes — one man 's success being another 's failure . |
| 10 | And , since there is no limit to the number of hypotheses that can fit a given body of data , what reason have we to suppose that we are capable of producing , and finding plausible , an hypothesis that is on the right lines ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The following method was used : ( a ) a date of interview ( nominated date ) was randomly selected from all 1096 days in the study period , ( b ) the control was then randomly allocated an age at which to be interviewed , ( c ) the date of birth was calculated from age and date of interview , ( d ) an obstetric hospital was randomly chosen in proportion to the number of births in 1986 , and ( e ) random numbers were used to select a particular infant from those born on the date of birth in the nominated obstetric hospital . |
| 13 | The probability of choosing an area was proportional to the number of births in the area . |
| 14 | But there are also maternal ailments attributable to the number of births , the ages at which women bear children and possibly also to the amount of time that elapses between births , presumably , among other things , because the reproductive pattern influences ability to meet demands that pregnancy and breastfeeding make upon the body . |
| 15 | The two groups were similar with respect to the number of smokers , patients with gastric H pylori , gastric metaplasia , and duodenal ulcers . |
| 16 | Most often , the number of rows gives a smaller measurement compared to the number of stitches . |
| 17 | A list of documented evidence as to the number of marathons achieved to date and proposed events must be submitted . |
| 18 | The team secretary , Paul Williams , said : ‘ We have had phenomenal numbers on the hills this winter and obviously the number up there is related to the number of accidents . ’ |
| 19 | The Save The Children Fund programme with the motorcycles has made a very big difference to the number of visits that health assistants can make to villages . |
| 20 | This sociability and cooperation lent itself ideally to communal hunting techniques because , as I have shown elsewhere , hunting success , even among well-adapted hunting animals — which , of course , our hominid ancestors most decidedly were not — is generally proportional to the number of hunters involved . |
| 21 | The ‘ two ’ refers to the number of strands wound together and the thirty is something to do with the length — I can never remember the exact definition of this bit . |
| 22 | But when , as I fear , you have lost your innocence and added another to the number of fools he has ruined , I can not help showing my displeasure to you . |
| 23 | If groups of records are to be stored in buckets , it will be related to the number of buckets required . |
| 24 | Is this number equal to the number of galls ? |
| 25 | As they had all gone in , having regard to the number of answers in the form of ‘ nothing to say , ’ it was vital that a proper direction be given . |
| 26 | The companies say that the finished product will manage every aspect of software , and all activities relating to software licences , including the all important tracking of the number of copies of an application relative to the number of licences held . |
| 27 | The number of particles in the baby universe will be equal to the number of particles that have fallen into the black hole , plus the number of particles that the black hole emits during its evaporation . |
| 28 | There may be room left for additions to the number of products , product types , factories , categories , etc . |
| 29 | There is no limit to the number of resources per project . |
| 30 | Span of control refers to the number of persons for whom a manager has direct responsibility . |