Example sentences of "[prep] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 2 | For the number of someone to talk to telephone 081–455 8894 ( recorded message ) . |
| 3 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 4 | When Jack Hobbs was approaching W. G. Grace 's record for the number of first-class centuries the massive attention of the press actually caused him a brief loss of form . |
| 5 | In an almost throw-away sentence the book gives one of the highest figures for the number of those whom Stalin killed or imprisoned during collectivisation and the purges : ‘ According to preliminary estimates , the total number of victims of the repressions was around 40 million . ’ |
| 6 | Accurate figures for the number of animals caught in these remote freezing areas are hard to collect , but those we do know show the situation to be alarming . |
| 7 | Think in terms of ease more than possibility of movement for the number of people you anticipate . |
| 8 | At last I got through , demanded an ambulance , and had to ask Masha for the number of the room . |
| 9 | WALES holds the record among the regions for the number of organisations actively involving themselves in getting new lines opened , new stations added and services improved . |
| 10 | Critics of Scottish devolution have argued that it will inevitably lead to demands for the number of Scottish MPs to be cut by between 15 and 20 . |
| 11 | Effective : In an attempt to make distribution more controllable and easier , for the administrator rather than the user , it is common for the number of products distributed to be restricted . |
| 12 | Find a transformation suitable for the number of people per doctor . |
| 13 | These include : defining suitable values for the number of simulations required in a GIS environment rather than a statistical hypothesis-testing one ; assessing the utility of kernel estimators as an approximation that may allow smaller numbers of simulations to be used ; investigating the possibility of predicting the final output regions without performing large numbers of simulations ; and investigating possible hardware solutions to speed up the simulation process . |
| 14 | The farmers are also helped by a Government subsidy for the number of livestock they keep on the uplands . |
| 15 | One of his successors , Lord Fisher , explained that gaiters were for the restriction of blood circulation and possibly accounted for the number of swollen heads among their wearers , but he added that , ‘ I myself find them a very comfortable kind of bondage ’ . |
| 16 | George also holds the record for the number of goals scored in a single season from the flank with a fabulous 22 goals in 1927–28 . |
| 17 | Look in the telephone directory for the number of your local health authority , who can give you the address of your nearest menopausal clinic and ask , when you speak to the clinic , whether they will accept you without a doctor 's referral . |
| 18 | Subsequent appeals to the courts by disappointed students led the federal government to devise complex formulas that fix minima for the number of students each university department must take . |
| 19 | Almost as hard to credit , the figure for the number of nuclear explosions set off by the French in the Pacific since 1975 was said to be 52 . |
| 20 | There were , of course , many participants in this discussion , but Bukharin and Preobrazhensky stand out not only for the number of contributions they made but also because of the quality of these interventions . |
| 21 | He had become increasingly unhappy about the trackway theory , feeling it to be insufficient to account for the number of leys which seemed to exist , the tendency for parallel systems , the intersection of many leys at a single site , and the phenomenon which he discovered of patterns of concentric circles . |
| 22 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
| 23 | President Theodore Roosevelt holds the record for the number of hands shaken at an official function ? |
| 24 | Only trial and error will teach you the exact amount needed for the number of babies you have . |
| 25 | If we write x i j for the number of items sent from i to j , the problem can be written as an LP . |
| 26 | The interest rate quoted is applied to the principal for the number of days of the advance divided by 365 if this is a domestic UK sterling deal ( 360 days for Eurosterling and most currencies ) , and the interest is repaid together with the principal at the maturity date . |
| 27 | A number of these are entirely legitimate and cause great excitement among devotees , who will be found anxiously scanning the title of Pickwick to see whether Sam Weller 's name on the inn sign-board is spelt with a W or a V ; and , indeed , that particular work is notorious for the number of points a copy needs to score before emerging triumphant . |
| 28 | Various statistical sources giving figures for the number of receivers show the country as having 120,000 sets . |
| 29 | But the British ace was easily beaten for the number one spot by Chicago Bulls basketball star Michael Jordan , who will earn £24 million , according to America 's Forbes ' magazine . |
| 30 | Hare , a panel beater from Belstead , is likely to be battling it out with Tacey for the number eight race jacket . |