Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] the [adj] number " in BNC.

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1 Return to two full sizes tighter than main tension and knit the same number of rows as before .
2 Return to two full sizes tighter than main tension and knit the same number of rows as before .
3 Return to two full sizes tighter than main tension and knit the same number of rows as before .
4 I was eating a lasagna and reading the latest number of Surfing when Pottz cruised in with his entourage .
5 It assumes each age to be of equal significance and represents the total number of children born ( on average ) to each woman of a hypothetical cohort throughout her life .
6 She lifted the receiver and dialled the first number with great care .
7 The design strategy is to define the possible information content of a message in terms of the necessary minimum of variations , then to design the structure so that it has a maximum content of standardized information and requires the minimum number of specific triggers to identify the variation to be conveyed .
8 Examples of the type of mistake thought sufficiently serious by the Court of Appeal to warrant challenge in Jones v Sherwood ( see 13.6 ) were valuing shares in the wrong company and valuing the wrong number of shares .
9 He took the receiver firmly out of her hand , listened for the dialling tone and dialled the second number .
10 Messengers would then , when making up numbers for ships ' crews , ignore the crowd of men outside , " sneak out and deliberately proceed to a boarding house and obtain the required number of men " .
11 The master key both advances the stage and records the total number of points counted .
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