Example sentences of "number of [noun] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance . |
| 2 | Although this is bought through a massive number of connections it seems to have a number of advantages over previously mentioned strategies : |
| 3 | The number of boxes it shifted also increased 59% to 40,000 , accounting for 80% of total group turnover . |
| 4 | Now look it asks you for a certain number of things It says As The average does n't it ? |
| 5 | Many of you will be familiar with his correlation between the age of a hedge and the number of species it contains . |
| 6 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 7 | When determining the frequency of a particular feature or category , we work out the number of times it occurs per X , where X is some standard measure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In a number of cases it ousted earlier conventions , such as the indiction or year of grace ( see later ) . |
| 10 | In a number of cases it has raised a question about a UK company passing into the control of an overseas company . |
| 11 | Much of Rhône-Poulenc 's effort in 199 was focused on integrated the large number of acquisitions it has made over the past five years . |
| 12 | The general rule is that the efficiency of a country 's intelligence operations is in inverse proportion to the number of agencies it operates . |
| 13 | I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’ |
| 14 | Many phonologists have claimed that one should prefer the analysis which is the most ‘ economical ’ in the number of phonemes it results in . |
| 15 | Its range , strength value and the number of wounds it causes reflect this . |
| 16 | The list of editors makes interesting reading if only for the number of composers it contains : Saint-Säens was eventually joined by Vincent d'Indy , Paul Dukas , Auguste Chapuis , Reynaldo Hahn , Alexandre Guilmant , Henri Busser , Georges Marty and ( surprisingly ? ) |
| 17 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 18 | The relation LECTURER-MODULE gives the module number ( each compulsory unit and option is termed a module ) the name of the lecturer presenting the module and the number of weeks it lasts . |
| 19 | In a number of ways it has proved an attractive metaphor . |
| 20 | Nature seems quite profligate in the number of ways it has arranged for embryos to construct organisms . |
| 21 | Certainly the tendency of a number of planning studies to equate the vitality of a village with the number of organizations it contains reveals a decidedly middle-class bias and fails to give sufficient weight to the overwhelmingly informal basis of rural working-class association . |
| 22 | In the 1983 election , the party won less than half the number of seats it had won in the larger cities in 1959 , the last election when it was returned with a three-figure majority . |
| 23 | PR 's sole concern is with the relationship between the number of votes each party has received and the number of seats it has been awarded . |
| 24 | ‘ Nor the number of days it took to build the Palazzo Farnese ? ’ |
| 25 | Clearly the importance of these systems will increase in proportion to the size of an establishment and the number of employees it has . |
| 26 | It has extended its DMS course and has introduced a successful master 's degree programme ; as a result the number of staff it employs has doubled during the past ten years . |
| 27 | Among the most striking features of Poulantzas ' theory is the huge number of categories it posits in order to explain one aspect of capitalist society . |
| 28 | Stock would have been excluded from coppiced areas but the importance in the medieval scene of wood-pastures for stock-feed ca n't be over emphasised ; nearly every entry in Domesday quotes the area of woodland and the number of pigs it supports . |
| 29 | Should Japan be restricted in the number of cars it sells in the UK ? |
| 30 | As the company wants to increase the number of cars it sells in the UK rather than maximise profits , that is likely to mean price cuts . |