Example sentences of "of children [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creativity and ingenuity are widely distributed and evident in the natural activities of children outside school . |
| 2 | In terms of both household size and number of children per family ethnicity seemed more important than class , with 3.6 and 3.7 people in Welsh working class and middle class households respectively , and 6.7 and 7.1 in Bangladeshi working class and middle class households respectively ; Welsh middle and working class families had 1.5 children on average , while Bangladeshi working class averaged 3.4 and middle class 2.1 . |
| 3 | Often , there is no fixed number of children per node . |
| 4 | If all leaves are at roughly the same depth d , and the number of children per internal node is fixed , say n , then this is 1 + n + n + n + … + n |
| 5 | " What was the average number of children per family in 1881 ? " ) . |
| 6 | Average numbers of children per family in developing countries have fallen from six in 1960 to four today , thanks to growing use of contraceptives , according to the latest John Hopkins University Population Report . |
| 7 | According to statistics soon to be published by the UN , the average number of children per mother in Bangladesh has fallen from 6.7 in 1975 to 4.7 now , and that of Kenya from 8.1 to 6.3 . |
| 8 | He started asking questions — and found that at his own school — Ashchurch primary — the cuts could mean the loss of a teacher and an increase in the numbers of children per class . |
| 9 | CARE nurse Mary Jane Hammond moves along the lines , wiping the infected eyes of children beyond tears . |
| 10 | With a variety of adults exercising control of children during the school day including class teacher , teacher on playground duty and lunch time supervisors it is possible that patterns of repeated bullying are not picked up by adults . |
| 11 | In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers ' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break . |
| 12 | The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises . |
| 13 | These colleges were built as an educational resource , meeting the needs of children during the school day and providing space ( and sometimes staff ) at other times for adult clubs and classes . |
| 14 | It is true that much was written about the moral upbringing of children during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but this topic was itself clearly linked with the expectation of death , rather than with the hope of a balanced and integrated life . |
| 15 | Basically there 's a decline in the number of children during this period , people under the age of sixteen , by around about eleven percent . |
| 16 | Whilst improvements in the material well-being of children during the period under consideration is measurable in the decrease in child mortality rates , and advances in education provision and medical care ( in other words the material evidence of the control and monitoring of children by the state ) , the historical changes which occur in the emotional/psychological category , ‘ the child ’ , are largely unknowable . |
| 17 | Correspondence between P.Gordon , S. Rosie , and Councillor Mrs B. Brereton re use of courts after 11.00 pm and destructive activities of children during the day . |
| 18 | The age equivalent indicates the age at which a sample of children without identifiable language handicaps obtain the same score as the target child . |
| 19 | In contrast , the relative risk of a fatal outcome in children with radiographic pneumonia was only 1.03 times that of children without radiographic pneumonia . |
| 20 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 21 | In Britain in 1978 , the Protection of Children Act extended the scope of the earlier Indecency with Children Act 1960 to cover indecent photographs , still or moving , of children under the age of 16 . |
| 22 | Apart from the Society of Friends , there was no established organisation ready to come to the help of children under threat in Czechoslovakia . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the calculations set out in the box suggest that the number of children under the age of 16 living with lone mothers in 1981 and largely or totally dependent on state benefits was about 544000 in England and Wales . |
| 24 | ( 8 ) The percentage of children under the age of 16 normally resident in private households who had a reported age at last birthday of 0 on Census day in 1981 was 5.75 . |
| 25 | From the beginning of the course and throughout the three years , students spend one half day per week in schools ( a different school each term ) where they work with small groups of children under the guidance of teachers and tutors . |
| 26 | Consequently the shape of the relationship between birth order and child mortality tends to parallel that of maternal age to the mortality of children under age five . |
| 27 | Information in the WHO reports also suggests that higher percentages of children under age five suffer malnutrition in large families than in small ones and that the problem is greater among high parity children than among those of low birth order ( Omran and Standley , 1976 , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | A multivariate analysis of WFS and other statistics confirmed that mortality of children under age five is higher if the mother is employed than if she is not in the labour force . |
| 29 | Dave and Alice Fernie were walking like a-couple of children down the private side of Boundary Drive . |
| 30 | The limit for first-year infants classes will be 27 and for classes of children of mixed ages , 24 . |