Example sentences of "of the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't want another body because of the number of rules and regulations , you want to reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't need another body . |
| 2 | Prices quoted are in £ 's per car , irrespective of the number of occupants . |
| 3 | Compensation claims amounting to US$400,000,000 for property destroyed and looted during the invasion [ see p. 37706 ] were outstanding against the US government ; estimates of the number of civilians killed during the fighting varied from the official US figure of 220 civilian dead [ see p. 37181 ] through that of 320 ( with 3,000 wounded ) given by a human rights group , Physicians for Human Rights , to one as high as 4,000 dead . |
| 4 | Over the last twenty years I have been active in our hobby , I have lost count of the number of detectors I have used . |
| 5 | In st in standard two though , having passed through there , the Headmaster came in near the end of the second year and said because of the number of scholars er some boys would have to miss standard three because there was too many for the class . |
| 6 | The allocation of the number of broadcasts to the parties is a somewhat contentious one . |
| 7 | I was amazed during a recent visit to headquarters of the number of requests for posters and tickets I saw when I was leafing through that bible , the design it file . |
| 8 | Does my hon. Friend agree that one statistic that needs to be found is that of the number of Londoners who would lose if the upper earnings limit on national insurance contributions were to be removed ? |
| 9 | Female first names tended to be longer than males , in terms of the number of syllables they contain . |
| 10 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 11 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 12 | If such a date can not be set during 1997 , then the union will come into effect on 1st January , 1999 , irrespective of the number of countries satisfying the convergence criteria . |
| 13 | The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 , repealed all former constitutions of borough councils and provided a standard formula for the constitution of all municipal corporations , namely a council elected by the burgesses or citizens , the aldermen elected by the councillors ( the aldermen being one-third of the number of councillors ) and a Mayor elected by the aldermen and councillors . |
| 14 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 15 | I lost count of the number of corners Leeds had or the amount of times Wallace was given as much space as he wanted . |
| 16 | He has lost count of the number of operations he had , probably around a dozen , but thankfully his spine was virtually undamaged . |
| 17 | If the model armed with a Man Catcher hits his opponent roll a D6 : if the score is more than the target 's toughness he is caught and killed automatically , regardless of the number of wounds he has or armour . |
| 18 | The Americans , called on to prove their sincerity , could only do so in terms of the number of Hawks and TOWs that had already been shipped . |
| 19 | It took about 300 hours , but it was time well spent , the practice believes , because of the number of inaccuracies in the FPC register — around 40 per cent . |
| 20 | I think in this day and age , there is probably a greater propensity to move and consequently there may well be an increased erm amount of vacancies occurring and that was why in our statement , we actually increased the number of vacancies , but I think that is a function of the number of houses on offer at the time . |
| 21 | In early computers the add or store cycle time would be quoted ; even today raw computer power may be expressed in terms of the number of instructions executed per second , using a weighted average over some standard instruction mix . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In this book , we tried to develop a somewhat new approach to grammar , based on the idea that grammar , to be useful to the learner , should be ‘ communicative ’ , i.e. should relate the forms and structures of the language to their meaning and use In terms of the number of copies sold , this has been the most successful book of which I have been an author . |
| 24 | the amount of training a system has received , both absolutely and in terms of the number of writers will influence its success ; |
| 25 | If one looks at the matter in terms of the number of Directives related to trade and competition issued by the Commission , then undoubtedly there is seen to have been progress . |
| 26 | As we outlined in our report ( footnote , p 151 ) there are an estimated 7800 full and part-time professional complementary therapists in the UK , which is equivalent to 28 per cent of the number of doctors in general practice . |
| 27 | However due to the effective doubling of the number of paths through the dawg , making it bi-directional would increase its size ( Appel and Jacobson , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | Baumol 's theory of contestable markets states that consumer welfare can be maximised regardless of the number of firms in an industry , as long as it is greater than one . |
| 29 | This source can provide an approximation of the number of firms in Britain but can not allow a differentiation of firms according to their standing in the senior recruitment market . |
| 30 | ( 1982 ) have argued that resources will be allocated efficiently ( in the sense that prices will be equal to marginal costs ) in industries which are perfectly contestable and that this result holds irrespective of the number of firms in the industry . |