Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj] numbers " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Strathclyde records the highest numbers of the most serious offences , the survey highlights that it is not alone in suffering steep rises in violent crime . |
| 2 | Yeah thing about it is though when you 're looking at this , you wan na be looking as to which is the Produces the smallest numbers . |
| 3 | When you play the disc , another laser beam ‘ reads ’ the pattern of flaws , and a special-purpose computer built into the player turns the binary numbers back into sound vibrations , which are amplified so that you can hear them . |
| 4 | The rule is simply that one uses as many digits as are in the final number ( three digits if in hundreds , four if in thousands , and so on ) and then uses the random numbers in appropriate sets . |
| 5 | Table 9.1 shows the average numbers of transactions per day in the gilts market during 1986 . |
| 6 | And the table shows the large numbers of women currently using what the World Fertility Survey dismissively ( and inappropriately ) calls ‘ inefficient ’ methods of contraception . |
| 7 | The table shows the latest numbers for contributions so far , set roughly against ability to pay and interest in the Gulf measured by reliance on imported oil . |
| 8 | A further difficulty concerns the sheer numbers of such spores that would need to be involved . |
| 9 | Previn conducts the big numbers with a real swagger and the shorter dances are well characterised and beautifully played . |
| 10 | This decrease reflects the lower numbers of people in the population aged 80+ . |
| 11 | The more interesting aspect of its search is the part which finds the whole numbers , the powers of P and R. During the search , Bacon constructs intermediate approximations to the right powers , all of the form i j where i and j are whole numbers . |
| 12 | Well football pools are a splendid started because recently somebody has won just over nine hundred thousand pounds , and it 's interesting to note that he did this without exercising too much skill , as I 'm sure he 'd be the first to admit , because he enters the same numbers every week . |
| 13 | It generates the random numbers for the dice from reading the device 's internal clocks at the instant the ‘ roll ’ button is pressed . |
| 14 | In conference each week with them , he selects the musical numbers and their order on the programme . |
| 15 | However , Bonhams auctioneer Alastair Laird believes the actual numbers of artwork coming on the market is not as great as 10 years ago . |