Example sentences of "with the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extensity ( for example the size of a patch of light ) usually correlates with the number and spatial distribution of receptors activated . |
| 2 | Most people use their own bodyweight as a stretching aid , with the number of different ways to stretch being limited only by the imagination . |
| 3 | So far , with the number of Japanese-speaking graduates in the UK scarcely being measured in three figures , any reciprocal learning will depend mainly on what Japanese companies choose to make available . |
| 4 | Something to do with the number of casualties they are having . ’ |
| 5 | The British Sub Aqua Club ( BSAC ) has just reported a record-breaking year , with the number of dives off the UK coast estimated at about two million — 100 per cent up on the previous year . |
| 6 | That is small compared with the number of marriages — 7.8m in 1984 and 9.3m in 1989 — but in Mao 's day a divorce was considered an offence against socialism and so was almost impossible to obtain . |
| 7 | Introduce a smog tax which would rise with the number of miles travelled ( and the dirtiness of the vehicle ) . |
| 8 | Ian Fleming 's Casino Royale ( 1953 ) was not a bestseller but it introduced James Bond , the agent with the number 007 , a licence to kill and a taste for the best of everything , especially girls . |
| 9 | On the walls of the tombs in the cliffs above Beni Hassan are painted the meals expected in the after life , the menus marked with the number of portions required , as on cards hung on the doorknobs of hotel bedrooms to order breakfast . |
| 10 | Total loans for house buying has more than quadrupled from about £9.1 billion to £43 billion , with the number of mortgages increasing by 62 p.c. from 6.5m to about 10m . |
| 11 | This tied up with the number who had breeding stock and were therefore likely to be needed as assistants at a calving or lambing . |
| 12 | For the widowed or divorced there was no difference between those with and without children nor any significant trend with the number of children . |
| 13 | With the number of environmental regulations escalating , companies have naturally turned to outside services for help and advice . |
| 14 | The business of environmental consultancy has evolved rapidly over the past decade , with the number of UK firms involved jumping from 100 to 225 over the past couple of years alone . |
| 15 | Until elimination of those stocks is achieved , Labour will retain Britain 's nuclear capability , with the number of warheads no greater than the present total . |
| 16 | Naturally the male 's reproductive success rises with the number of females on his territory : but this is not the case for the females themselves . |
| 17 | Detailed classification of the crinoids is based principally on the way the calcite plates are arranged on the calyx with the number and branching patterns of the arms , the external sculpture on the calyx , and important internal features of the cup connected with the nervous and respiratory systems . |
| 18 | Finally I have been given a gearbox with the number 26107266 on top , 22 stamped on the right between gearbox and transfer box and Marshall 219467 on the side of the transfer box . |
| 19 | Every one of the departmentally-related committees has been covered , with the number of televised occasions , up till the Whitsun recess , 1990 , ranging from two ( Education , Science and Arts ) to nine ( Environment ) with an average of 6.2 televised meetings . |
| 20 | Thus , the extent of habituation increases with the number of exposures to the stimulus and so does the magnitude of latent inhibition ( e.g. Lubow 1965 ; Lubow , Markman , and Allen 1968 ; Lantz 1973 ) . |
| 21 | Beneath that was a leaflet with the number of the switchboard ( 837 7324 ) and then eight pamphlets dealing with sexual hygiene , four of them coming from America , ones which Madame had got hold of before anyone else . |
| 22 | Compared with the number of dogs who are registered , entries to shows are quite small : fifty to a hundred entries compared with 3,000 registrations for 1986 . |
| 23 | The risk of catching the infection will obviously increase with the number of times intercourse takes place and will also depend on other factors , such as the sites that are infected and whether barrier contraceptives such as the condom are used . |
| 24 | The incubation period almost certainly varies with the number of bacteria originally passed on . |
| 25 | According to official figures , more than 20% of the population is without jobs , with the number of Panamanian poor rising from 33% before the US embargo and invasion to 50% of the population afterwards . |
| 26 | In practice , only writers of documents and chronicles were concerned with the number of the year . |
| 27 | The St Albans clock had two similar escapements , one to control the going-train and one to ring the bell each hour on a twenty-four-hour system with the number of strokes equal to the hour . |
| 28 | Division : You can use a similar method for dividing by 50 because it is always easier to work with the number two . |
| 29 | For your protection , all envelopes deposited will be endorsed by the machine with the number of your nominated account and the amount you record by entry on the machine as deposited and will subsequently be opened in the presence of two of our employees . |
| 30 | Table 3.4 shows how many they employed over the course of the project , together with the number of clients held at the same time . |