Example sentences of "number of [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estimated annual number of births affected with a neural tube defect is about 400,000 world wide . |
| 2 | The Conservative selection board was designed to bring the candidates ' list into the latter half of the twentieth century by including more industrialists , more women , more representatives of ethnic minorities , and reducing the number of barristers looking for a congenial second career . |
| 3 | For example , Ralls ( 1977 ) argues that ‘ the intensity of intrasexual selection in a species should be proportional to the ratio of the lifetime number of offspring sired by a highly successful male compared to the number born by a highly successful female in her lifetime ’ while Payne ( 1979 ) suggests that the extent to which variance in breeding success differs between the sexes is important . |
| 4 | There is no net increase in the number of elements activated by a given stimulus but the circles have been moved apart , indicating not only an increase in the number of unique elements activated by a stimulus but a corresponding decrease in the number of common elements activated . |
| 5 | The US negotiating team , led by Max Kampelman until his retirement in December , had on Oct. 30 proposed that anti-missile tests in space be permitted but that a limit be placed on their scope , with a specific assurance that the USA would limit to 15 the number of satellites deployed in a Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI , or " Star Wars'-see p. 36760 ) test . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is because a predator is able to find and eat relatively large numbers of aposematic prey in a short space of time , and that the high initial rate of feeding produces a more powerful reinforcement than a greater number of prey eaten over a longer period . |
| 7 | Second , there should be a reduction in the number of committees appointed by a local authority . |
| 8 | Although , at first sight , these look fairly primitive ‘ abilities ’ , the fact that a microcomputer can obey quickly a large number of instructions consisting of a combination of these features enables most of the ‘ talents ’ described on page 22 to be made available . |
| 9 | Furthermore , though the number of persons suffering from a mental disorder who can not be helped on a voluntary basis is relatively small , the number of such persons in the community is likely to increase . |
| 10 | On a much more ambitious scale , Lindsay and Paton-Saltzberg ( 1987 ; see Table 6.2 ) analysed data from 36,984 student assessments in arts , social studies , science and applied areas , to show that the frequency of high grades decreases and that of lower grades incl-eases as the number of students enrolled on a module increases . |
| 11 | 5 This table shows the number of students absent from a local school during one week . |
| 12 | Proliferative abnormalities in normal looking colorectal mucosa are believed to represent an early phase of colorectal carcinogenesis and have been found in a number of conditions associated with a high risk for these malignancies . |
| 13 | By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern . |
| 14 | In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people . |
| 15 | If more than one attempt was required to guess the correct letter then the character is emboldened and the number of attempts shown as a subscript . |
| 16 | He studied geographical variations in the number of species belonging to a genus , showing that in France , for instance , there was an average of 7.2 species per genus , while in Britain the corresponding figure was 2.3 . |
| 17 | For example , Olton ( 1983 ) tested rats on a ‘ radial arm maze ’ , which is an elevated star-shaped maze with a number of arms radiating from a central choice point . |
| 18 | Like its larger industrial brothers , Petrograd and Moscow , it had declined fast between 1917 and 1920 ( the number of inhabitants fell by a quarter ) . |
| 19 | Two children die , as number of cases triples in a week Hospitals on brink of ‘ red alert ’ for flu . |
| 20 | This was established in 1939 by some of those involved in the Moot , and under the editorship of Oldham it consisted of a number of editorials combined with a long signed article from writers like Reinhold Niebuhr , Karl Barth and Dorothy L. Sayers . |
| 21 | Even after legislative efforts to remove some of the anomalies , the complexity of the system was apparent in the number of authorities existing at a local level . |
| 22 | Alternatively , farmers could treat plants that act as alternative hosts for the pest and so reduce the number of pests migrating to a susceptible crop . |
| 23 | The number of flutes cut on a shape is dependent on its diameter and the width of the cutter , and the number of indexing plates available . |
| 24 | In 1987/88 , the number of certificates issued in a session topped the 100,000 mark for the first time — almost 115,000 were issued . |
| 25 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 26 | For the number of members required for a quorum , see s.5(3) . |
| 27 | Between 1974 and 1979 I had become concerned with the number of investigations conducted in a few States where , despite representations from properly appointed accredited representatives , the findings in the final reports were clearly less than satisfactory . |
| 28 | I consider that it would not be appropriate t to adhere too rigidly to the number of hours multiplied by a rate of three pounds fifty per hour suggested by Mr . |
| 29 | Somebody made a cocaine connection and a number of actors laid in a large supply at bargain prices — seven dollars for a packet that cost seventy dollars in the States . |
| 30 | The number of capsules laid by a female is presumably influenced by her food reserves , her size , her age and various environmental factors . |