Example sentences of "number of [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams . |
| 2 | If your garment size requires that you have a number of stitches that give a half repeat , you might consider moving the N1 cam between the first and second piece as we discussed earlier , so that when seamed ‘ A ’ will be joined to ‘ B ’ at the side seam . |
| 3 | Thus , for example , a high level of absenteeism may be a sign of low morale ; high staff turnover and the inability to retain staff may be a sign of low morale ( witness the number of teachers that leave the profession every year ) ; industrial action or strikes may be an indication that morale and motivation are low . |
| 4 | It includes a number of improvements that enable users to interoperate between Windows , MS-DOS and OS/2 on a SCO Unix server . |
| 5 | He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them . |
| 6 | All that 's changed is the way the formula 's been applied , and the number of calls that counts towards the formula . |
| 7 | Yes , yes , I mean this year , with the formula obviously , because the number of fire calls has dropped , it impacts upon er , as I say that , I do n't know whether the actual , the cost , the differential between the number of calls that have dropped and the drop in the S S A , whether it 's comparable , and I do n't suppose they 've got a measure of the drop , in S S A terms it 's far greater than the actual marginal costs of er , not attending those er , extra , extra fire calls . |
| 8 | As he makes clear , this is only of benefit when the average number of records that has overflowed from a track is two or more . |
| 9 | Marcus ( 1990b ) reports that a group from IBM informally surveyed a number of parsers that claimed to be ‘ broad coverage ’ . |
| 10 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 11 | This is the creation of high quality artwork using material that may already exist in a number of forms and modifying it to suit the current need . |
| 12 | To say the Pacific is criss-crossed is , perhaps , too strong — the Atlantic has a number of routes that cross each other , and its Jepperson high-altitude charts are so filled with intersecting lines that to an untutored eye , they resemble the early stages of weaving . |
| 13 | The standard molar entropies for a number of elements and compounds at 25°C are given in table 5.12 . |
| 14 | Such was the number of committees that writing itself had to be suspended . |
| 15 | For example , the school day and week were changed to increase the number of periods but reduce the amount of time pupils spent moving around the school between lessons . |
| 16 | He had invested his money in a number of schemes that required his attention , and his days seemed pretty full to her untrained eyes . |
| 17 | Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about , the number of generations that separate us from our earliest ancestors is certainly measured in the thousands of millions . |
| 18 | Although the number of genes that encode intracellular protein tyrosine-kinases in the human genome may be quite large , relatively few have been isolated , and the protein products of even fewer have been analysed . |
| 19 | Instead of measuring distance as " number of genes that have to change in evolution " , we are going to measure distance as " odds of happening to jump the distance , by sheer luck , in a single hop " . |
| 20 | Concentration of updates in a particular area — case 3 above — reduces the number of blocks that have to be read and in the most extreme case , where all or none of the records in a block require updating , the percentage of records that need to be read would not change due to blocking . |
| 21 | This gives a rough idea of the number of choices that have to be carried forward in order to produce word graphs of this size . |
| 22 | Probably one of the most popular stances in taekwondo is the ‘ walking stance ’ , which is well suited to a number of conditions that require rapid movement in all directions . |
| 23 | In this paper , we identify a number of conditions that seem to be conducive to their optimum level of functioning . |
| 24 | The number of TC-LC that adhered to KC was 10-fold greater than the number of TE-LC that bound , implying a role for cadherins in LC-KC interactions . |
| 25 | While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux . |
| 26 | Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources . |
| 27 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 28 | These subjective factors open up the number of variations that need to be considered and hence leads to an underconstrained design situation that can stimulate major changes in product concepts . |
| 29 | Careers Advisers are in constant contact with a very large number of employers and help students to acquire a realistic awareness of opportunities for employment , professional training or further study which will become available to them . |
| 30 | Meiosis , you will remember , is the special kind of cell division that halves the number of chromosomes and gives rise to sperm cells or egg cells . |