Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [conj] [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed half of Littlewoods ' 2.5 million agents have adopted this route and the average number of customers per agent has fallen from between six and 10 to just over two . |
| 2 | It should be noted at this point that the small number of boys who become anorexic ( 14 per cent as compared to 86 per cent girls of the patients studied by Bruch ) do so before they reach puberty and do not develop sexually until after they have recovered . |
| 3 | There was some evidence that a substantial number of pupils do not know a mnemonic for remembering the number of days in a month . |
| 4 | However , Jenny explained that there were few feminists and a small number of women teachers who were involved in equal opportunities work , with the result that they were rarely treated seriously ( cf Joyce , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Shareholders must be notified if the company intends to " stand in the market " for a particular period or until such time as a particular number of purchases have been made ( para 30.4 ) . |
| 6 | For comparison Figures 4.3 and 4.4 show the mean length of the films of each junction and the mean number of motor vehicles visible in the films . |
| 7 | If animals are given Pavlovian conditioning with a compound CS consisting of separable components , the amount of strength gained by one of these components after a given number of training trials will be less than would be acquired if that component had been trained alone . |
| 8 | Comparison of relative changes in SaO 2 by Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test showed the oxygen treated group to have significantly higher ( p<0.01 ) SaO 2 readings at all times until the total number of patients fell to less than 10 because of procedure completion ( Figure ) . |
| 9 | As you will be aware Scorton attracts many visitors and a fair number travel by bicycle — as do some of the local residents ! |
| 10 | Like his predecessor , Sobhuza took many wives and the precise number of his offspring , estimated at some 500 , is unknown . |
| 11 | The move from ‘ arranged marriage ’ to ‘ marriage based on free choice ’ , as described in a Zhongguo Qingnian article ( 1988 , 5 : 27 ) was to be welcomed in many ways because a large number of graduates every year were wrongly placed . |
| 12 | Any particular finite extension is simply an idea in our minds , and can not have more parts than the finite number we perceive it to have . |
| 13 | " Power " , for example , is an ordinal attribute in which we might want to talk about individuals having " more " or " less " power than others and to reflect this in using the power of numbers to reflect " more " or " less " of some attribute in the same way that a higher number score on a test signifies a greater ability to do the test than a lower number . |
| 14 | Unless and until otherwise determined by the Company by ordinary resolution in general meeting , the number of Directors shall not be subject to any maximum and the minimum number of Directors shall be one . |
| 15 | Unless and until otherwise determined by the Company by ordinary resolution in general meeting , the number of Directors shall not be subject to any maximum and the minimum number of Directors shall be one . |
| 16 | It locates the conformation of least energy or a user-specified number of low energy conformations . |
| 17 | The latter group had the most difficulties and the greatest number of demands from the children . |