Example sentences of "the [det] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it does have the least number of extras supplied with it , so it is basic in that sense . |
| 2 | Efficiency could be measured in terms of speed of performance , the least amount of storage required or the least number of program lines . |
| 3 | It is at that stage in the design process that he has the greatest opportunity to explore , and the least number of constraints . |
| 4 | However , pregnant girls gave the least number of alternative solutions to the problems , and were least competent at describing the steps an imaginary protagonist should take to achieve her aims in five stories . |
| 5 | Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ? |
| 6 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 7 | ‘ It was always planned he would come back on the bus , but when the usual head count was made for the return journey we , of course , had the same number as when we started out — without Kenny . ’ |
| 8 | About the same number are killed at home . |
| 9 | Computer technology built on to telephone exchanges will allow subscribers to have the same number wherever they are in the country , automatically reject unwanted calls and bar calls to ‘ chat-lines ’ or other unwanted services . |
| 10 | In 1993 Nissan 's factory at Washington , Tyne and Wear , will produce the same number of cars with a total workforce , including white-collar , managerial and support staff of 3,800 . |
| 11 | Approximately two million cars are sold each year in California — about the same number as registered annually in the UK . |
| 12 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 13 | Can you think of another solid figure with the same number of plane faces as letters in its name ? |
| 14 | With three clubs — Aylesbury , Basingstoke and Woking — in today 's second round , the Vauxhall League boasts the same number of representatives at this stage as the GM Vauxhall Conference . |
| 15 | For Preston , the North leaders , merely beating Bradford will be no guarantee of retaining top place in the AW Yarns competition since Ben Rhydding and Alderley Edge have the same number of points . |
| 16 | The same number are expected to arrive this year . |
| 17 | According to the Nilson Report , a Californian publication that follows the industry , Citibank 's Visa/MasterCard and Sears ' Discover cards have roughly the same number of holders ( 20.4m and 21.6m respectively ) , but Citibank 's card brought it $600m in net revenue against Discover 's $117m last year . |
| 18 | You can see that there need not be the same number of fat goals as sugar goals . |
| 19 | He trained eighty-four winners that season ( including Silver Buck in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park ) , and the following season was champion trainer for the first time ( with the same number of winners and a strike rate of winners to runners of an astounding 44.9 per cent ) . |
| 20 | AS OUR ship 's company — some 50 passengers and the same number of crew — assembled on the dockside , there were wry remarks that nothing else was like our old tub and that they would sail the Nile in none other . |
| 21 | Mr Hermens added : ‘ Anyone can order the seals in the same number range and it would be easy for anyone who has the seals to open them . |
| 22 | ‘ Prime Ministers always have to consider balance in the Cabinet — and at least we now have the same number of women as old Etonians in John Major 's team , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Police have located the owner of a van with the same number plates , who described the builders ' logo on the vehicle when he sold it several months ago . |
| 24 | Ships were built and repaired day and night ; over 200 aircraft carriers , almost the same number of cruisers , 34 mighty battleships . |
| 25 | If you or one of your sons incline to continue that business you may , I believe , send the same number of boxes here , that you used to send to England ; because England will then send here , for what it wants in that way . |
| 26 | The aliphatic acids were once known as formic , acetic , propionic , butyric , pentanoic , hexanoic etc , but today they are more systematically named after the hydrocarbon with the same number of carbon atoms — ie methanoic , ethanoic , propanoic , butanoic etc . |
| 27 | Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk . |
| 28 | All Land Rovers and Range Rovers have the same number of studs and the same pitch circle diameter , so , potentially , all wheels are interchangeable . |
| 29 | ICE asks for five days , say 35 hours , which is the same number as suggested by the RIBA for structured/practice-related CPD . |
| 30 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |