Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been a number of subsample surveys including surveys of twins , small-for-dates and post mature babies and a ten percent random sample of legitimate births , at the ages of 22 months and three and a half years . |
| 2 | The input to the program is the output from the lexical analyser , which consists of a number of candidate words for each word position in the text . |
| 3 | It would be desirable to be able to discard those candidates which are too short or too long to be the correct word — this would reduce the number of candidate words to be considered for further processing . |
| 4 | Data collected by this method are usually in the form of x , y co-ordinates , and are passed into a pattern recogniser , which will aim to produce characters , or a number of candidate characters as output , usually by matching against a database . |
| 5 | Lesbian and gay trade union groups became increasingly common from 1974 onwards , and the Gay Rights At Work campaign played a prominent part in a number of defence campaigns for dismissed workers . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , does the Minister agree that the number of defence jobs in the north-west has gone down from 23,000 in 1985-86 to only 12,000 in 1989-90 , a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 7 | In this way Tao gets money , but also retains its independence : Charig says that Tao Systems has turned down a number of buy-out bids from the US in the last few months . |
| 8 | In this way Tao gets money , but also retains its independence : Charig says that Tao Systems has turned down a number of buy-out bids from the US in the last few months . |
| 9 | The office will occupy an acre of land and will cut the number of parking spaces from 225 to 208 , of which 150 will be for public use and 58 for office workers . |
| 10 | In that case the corporation in the exercise of its licensing powers under section 37 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 ( 10 & 11 Vict. c. 89 ) limited the number of hackney carriages in that area to 300 . |
| 11 | There will , in particular , continue to be a large number of dementia sufferers in the geriatric services . |
| 12 | The rapid growth in the number of people over 75 will bring a very significant increase in the total number of dementia sufferers in spite of the forecasted decline in the population aged 65 to 74 . |
| 13 | Doctors across Scotland are reporting an increase in the number of flu cases with some Glasgow practices dealing with what they term ‘ an epidemic ’ . |
| 14 | A number of range names from a number of |
| 15 | According to Central Statistical Office data ( 1988 ) the largest number of road casualties per hour coincide with the times of day when traffic is at its heaviest , reaching a peak between 5 and 6 p.m. and with a secondary peak between 8 and 9 a.m . |
| 16 | Some examples from the pre-reformation period , such as the magnificent George Inn at Norton St. Philip , Somerset , originally constructed in the 14th century , were established by monasteries for pilgrims and travellers ; but after the dissolutions of the 1530s all were held in secular hands and subsequently catered for the increasing number of road travellers in the 16th century and the stage coach trade that first appeared in the early 17th century . |
| 17 | Co Monaghan Trades Council said a number of quarry firms in the south were threatening to lay off workers because of a recession created by the use of materials from Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | KILLJOY educational inspectors have poured scorn on the breathtakingly high number of A-grade passes in this year 's round of GCSE exams . |
| 19 | Over the years there have been a number of relief organists amongst whom are . |
| 20 | In the last ten years the number of phone calls from Britain to other European countries has multiplied two and half times . |
| 21 | The minimum number of prey items in the predator assemblages is based on the highest number of any single element in the assemblage , but it is not possible without direct experimental observation to extrapolate back from this to what the predator actually ate ( Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | b would correspond to the average number of word choices at each choice point , and n would correspond to the average number of choice points in the utterance . |
| 23 | Thus in the absence of complications due to symmetry , we may in principle count the number of CO ligands in a complex simply by counting the CO stretching bands in the vibrational spectrum . |
| 24 | These are as follows : ( 1 ) When the pleadings are deemed to be closed ; ( a ) there shall be discovery of documents within 28 days , and inspection within seven days thereafter , in accordance with para ( 5 ) ; ( b ) except with the leave of the court or where all parties agree ; ( i ) no expert evidence may be adduced at the trial unless the substance of that evidence has been disclosed to the other parties in the form of a written report within ten weeks ; and ( ii ) subject to para ( 7 ) , the number of expert witnesses of any kind shall be limited to two ; ( c ) photographs and sketch plans and , in an action for personal injuries , the contents of any police accident report book shall be receivable in evidence at the trial and shall be agreed if possible ; ( d ) unless a day has already been fixed , the plaintiff shall within six months request the proper officer to fix a day for the hearing and r 12 shall apply where such request is made . |
| 25 | The Chinese government has announced a $55 million plan to increase the number of panda reserves from 13 to 27 . |
| 26 | Scientists have pointed to the collapse of the shrimp catch and a sharp decline in the number of mangrove trees along the Saudi shoreline as evidence of a significant change in the ecosystem . |
| 27 | A good seventeenth-century example is Thomas Howard , second earl of Arundel , a great collector of pictures , who volunteered in 1636 for a special embassy to the Emperor Ferdinand II simply because he wished to see and perhaps buy a number of art treasures about which his agents in Germany had sent him glowing reports . |
| 28 | They reduced the number of board members to seven and granted group control to all members . |
| 29 | The number of matrix multiplications in this procedure is the same as before ; but the squaring of unc etc. is usually relatively easy since they become rapidly smaller in practice . |
| 30 | For this purpose , a plasmid containing both promoters was relaxed with topoisomerase I in the presence of increasing amounts of ethidium bromide , so obtaining a number of plasmid preparations with a superhelical density ranging from 0 ( relaxed plasmid ) to -0.071 ( fully supercoiled , see methods ) . |