Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 2 | There were eighty-eight photos or illustrations relating to this court case and the aftermath , virtually equalling the number found for all the other rape cases in the year . |
| 3 | Otherwise it is n-ary , with the value of ‘ n ’ equalling the number of entities . |
| 4 | Quite simply , the peaks and troughs can be evened out by forecasting the number that can be permitted to be away in each grade at any given week which is a simple mathematical exercise . |
| 5 | He has also been a member of the actuarial profession 's working party on AIDS and developed a model suitable for forecasting the number of AIDS cases in the UK . |
| 6 | The association has avoided naming the number of councils it considers to be feasible . |
| 7 | In your article on Britain 's unions ( April 3rd ) you seem to be using the number and size of strikes as a measure of union strength , as if the reason for the unions ' existence was to organise strikes . |
| 8 | The Children 's Society denounced the proposals , which could cost up to £75 million , as a ‘ knee jerk reaction ’ given figures suggesting the number of persistent young offenders could be as low as 100 . |
| 9 | He spent the first 12 months of his Hobart House reign in obscurity , in spite of repeated leaked reports suggesting the number of British mines was set to tumble to around a dozen . |
| 10 | The last time we met he was singing the number at a Friars ' Club gala in New York and , for all the lofty intellectual disdain one feels obliged to muster at tuxedo circuit events , it was undeniably impressive to see him afterwards , the only British subject in the room , surrounded by Lauren Bacall , Lena Horne and Gwen Verdon . |
| 11 | Note : For Random Access media , there is no penalty for overestimating the number of blocks value as it is possible for LIFESPAN to detect when the media is full . |
| 12 | The flow of East German refugees swelled during the 24 hours to Sunday morning from the normal 500-600 to 1,184 , bringing the number who have taken that route since Hungary opened its borders on 11 September to 35,000 . |
| 13 | A further group of 111 Vietnamese has left the colony , bringing the number of those who have returned under the voluntary repatriation programme this year to 874 . |
| 14 | A further 57 people were detained bringing the number interviewed to more than 1,000 since Operation Bumblebee began in January . |
| 15 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 16 | Until 1910 organized labour protest was subdued but as the industrial boom gathered pace , bringing the number of workers in mining and large-sale industry to over three million by 1914 , the relative industrial calm was broken . |
| 17 | Michael Orr , former head of investment banking at Merrill Lynch , Europe , and Martin Taylor , chief executive and chairman-designate of Courtaulds Textiles , have joined the board of W H Smith , bringing the number of non-executive directors to eight . |
| 18 | In October the Russian Orthodox Bishops ' Council said that nearly 3,000 church buildings had been reopened in the past 18 months , bringing the number of working parishes to 9,734 ; the number of theological students had doubled to 3,948 . |
| 19 | The November results gave the locally based Union pour la démocratie et le développement à Mayumba its first seat , bringing the number of parties represented in the new parliament to eight . |
| 20 | Sao Tomé and Príncípe acceded to the IMO Convention on July 9 , 1990 , bringing the number of member states to 134 ( 133 after the unification in May 1990 of Yemen ) . |
| 21 | Namibia was included in the list of least developed countries ( LDCs ) through the unanimous adoption of Resolution 45/198 on Dec. 21 , bringing the number back to 42 . |
| 22 | By that date 116 of 720 existing bases in western Germany would be closed , bringing the number of personnel stationed in that part of the country to 310,000 . |
| 23 | In addition sectarian killings resumed following the collapse of the Brooke initiative [ see p. 38402 ] and in September a Sinn Féin councillor was shot dead , bringing the number of killings in 1991 in Northern Ireland to 59 [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 24 | As a result a further five political parties decided to withdraw from legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 26 , bringing the number of parties boycotting the elections to 21 . |
| 25 | Estonia joined the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) on Jan. 31 , bringing the number of members to 136 [ see p. 38267 ] . |
| 26 | In the Gaza Strip soldiers shot dead three Palestinians , bringing the number of deaths there in recent days to 11 . |
| 27 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 28 | Where there has been suggestion that the new ‘ basic cycle ’ will involve shortening the number of years available to children ( in Sierra Leone , the 1973/1974 Educational Review originally suggested a two year cut from 7 to 5 years ) the reaction has been vehement . |
| 29 | The bigram matrix is stored as a 1-dimensional array of length ( 109 * 109 ) , reflecting the number of tags in the tagset . |
| 30 | It has been argued that factors in medical organisation , such as the use of deputies , may be more important than variations in patient demand in shaping the number of night visits . |