Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 2 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 3 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 4 | Quality Software Products Holdings Plc , Gateshead has now filled in the numbers hidden by the blobs in its pathfinder prospectus ( CI No 2,132 ) , pricing the 2.85m shares it is placing , 1.46m of them new , at 380 pence a share , valuing Quality , which did £1.2m net on £13.1m sales in 1992 , at £29.6m and raising about £5m of new money , net of expenses , for the company . |
| 5 | In an assessment of the United States ' principle of ‘ forward basing ’ Slobodenko observed that since the late 1960s the American leadership began to scale down the numbers of their troops abroad . |
| 6 | She played the message over again , grabbing a note-pad from the desk to jot down the number . |
| 7 | The reasons for keeping down the number of updates to an inverted file are discussed below , and the form of a dual serial-inverted file system is shown in Fig. 8.4 . |
| 8 | Students may by now feel competent to generalise , and they should be encouraged to write down the number of patterns in a 4 × 2 grid , and test their answer by drawing . |
| 9 | For example , you are often asked to write down the numbers of the questions answered in the order in which they are attempted . |
| 10 | How large were the , were the classes with these influx of all these , di did it boost up the numbers in the ? |
| 11 | The question can not be answered , therefore , by totting up the number of a lawyer 's victories , for in most cases there are no clear winners and losers . |
| 12 | You can just count up the number of rooms that you 're planning to do , ca n't you ? |
| 13 | He will reel out the numbers — 621 million Ecus ( £477 million ) committed to projects in eastern Europe , with outside investors adding a further 1.5 billion Ecus . |
| 14 | He jotted the three names down on a slip of paper with a gesture of finality and picked up the internal telephone , stabbing out the number for the code-room . |
| 15 | The idea of this method is very simple : to work out the number of dies used for any given coinage and multiply this total by the average number of coins each die could produce . |
| 16 | It does n't improve his nerves now to see me sitting on his carpet timing Casey 's phone rings with my stopwatch to work out the number he dialled . |
| 17 | Knowing the number of d electrons , it is possible to work out the number of free ion terms by analyzing the microstates ; this process is described in Ref. [ 20 ] . |
| 18 | you were the one , you were the one writing down the number and the name of the game |
| 19 | Taking out a pencil , she noted down the number on a piece of paper , and then peeped cautiously into the back of the car . |
| 20 | A parent who was taking her children to school noted down the number plate . |
| 21 | And if we cut down the number of our operations — for the part he 's making it would n't be worth automating . |
| 22 | She handed over the numbers , and said goodbye . |
| 23 | These subjective factors open up the number of variations that need to be considered and hence leads to an underconstrained design situation that can stimulate major changes in product concepts . |
| 24 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 25 | The probability of the particle traveling from A to B is given by adding up the numbers associated with all the paths that take the particle from A to B. For most paths , the number associated with the path will nearly cancel out the numbers from paths that are close by . |
| 26 | You can work out the number of fish a pond is able to support from the surface area and size of fish . |
| 27 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 28 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 29 | The boyfriends of the girls made up the numbers . |
| 30 | Lady Cumberlege spoke of ‘ an EC form which asked farmers to fill in the number of cows they had — ‘ figures to be given in whole numbers ’ ' . |