Example sentences of "[to-vb] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen is under no obligation to restore the number of Knights Companions to the customary 24 , but the feeling is that she will . |
| 2 | The size of the establishment could reasonably be expected to affect the number of young people being exposed to the different recruitment strategies ( although the relative numbers of small employers would also have to be borne in mind ) . |
| 3 | A manual task was , however , found by Botkin , Schmaltz and Lamb ( 1978 ) to affect the number of digits that could be repeated backwards . |
| 4 | I am sorry to see the number of subscribers fall so vastly short of what appeared to the other volume . |
| 5 | Although it is good to see the number of such facilities increasing in Scotland , it is sad to see some of these falling far short of the standards required . |
| 6 | The revolutionary new Caller Display system , introduced on a trial basis two months ago , allows customers to see the number of the person calling them before they answer the phone . |
| 7 | The key issues for the future are how to sustain the number of voluntary welfare workers and their helpers , and give them the support they need to deal with both increasing and more complex welfare needs . |
| 8 | The list merits repeating to emphasise the number of non-interviewing tasks involved in managing a CAB . |
| 9 | In this task , known to be sensitive to right hemisphere damage ( Kimura , 1963a ) , subjects were required to report the number of dots that were presented randomly in one or other visual field . |
| 10 | It would be helpful , therefore , for Gould and colleagues to report the number of men with microalbuminuria in both samples and the size of the difference in height between men in this group and men without albuminuria when the means for both groups are standardised to the same age distribution . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , it is very difficult to estimate the number of fraudulent claims for obvious reasons ) . |
| 12 | It is impossible to estimate the number who were widowed ( Scottish losses were heavy in France ) . |
| 13 | To estimate the number of synonyms that occur during creation of a direct file using a one-pass load , let us examine the result of storing n records at random in N addresses , on the assumption that each record has to be stored at once and each address can hold only one record . |
| 14 | To estimate the number of inappropriately notified anal cancers we examined all 2722 records of rectal cancers in 1950 , 1960 , and 1970 ( 8% of rectal cancers 1943–77 ) and found 20 cases of epidermoid histology ( six in 1950 ( 0.8% ) , eight in 1960 ( 0.9% ) , and six in 1970 ( 0.6% ) ; seven men and 13 women ) ; thus we estimated that there were 244 misplaced cases of anal cancer ( 107 men and 137 women ) in the entire period 1943–77 . |
| 15 | In addition , we examined a sample of 1744 records of skin cancers ( 33% of trunkal skin cancers 1978–87 ) to estimate the number ( n=22 ) of other perianal skin cancers . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , it is not a simple matter to estimate the number of children in such families . |
| 17 | Assuming that the proportion of visits done in the sample between 2300 and 0700 can be applied to the whole of Berkshire , it becomes possible to estimate the number of night visits which would have been claimable by using the definition of a night visit which applied before April 1990 . |
| 18 | Table 6 seeks to estimate the number of jobs generated by export activity in different manufacturing industries . |
| 19 | Brehmer had subjects attempt to estimate the number of road accidents occurring at various junctions and compared these estimates with the actual figures . |
| 20 | The fact that these memories are often associated with emotional situations is interesting but dangerous to interpret given that there is no easy way to estimate the number of similar emotional situations which did not lead to such memories . |
| 21 | Accident estimate : ‘ I want you to estimate the number of accidents that you think actually occur at this junction . |
| 22 | Variance component analysis was used to estimate the number of crypts and the number of biopsy samples that must be evaluated for each method to classify an individual correctly . |
| 23 | However , though estimates for riders can be made , the magazine says it is much more difficult to estimate the number of horses . |
| 24 | For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary . |
| 25 | The logical way forward is for purchasers to agree the number of patients they will pay for and for the region to ensure that this provision is adequate . |
| 26 | to agree the number of offers conditional upon A level performance that should be made to meet the admission targets for the fields and the Modular Course ; |
| 27 | But first of all let me explain how we come to agree the number of booklets on the and the individual financial target per assignment . |
| 28 | Well , unless people have specific to Katherine , as I say it 's presented in such a way , this report , that essentially we 're asked to agree the number of permits to match the number of applications . |
| 29 | The child has initially been asked to compare the number of cars on the two shelves , and has done so correctly . |
| 30 | In order to compare the number of abnormal subareas observed in the two groups the results were normalised . |