Example sentences of "[verb] the small number " in BNC.

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1 Given the small number of subjects in the sample and the fact that there are no significant correlations between subject variables and either of the variables of particular interest , risk ratings and number of junctions recalled , they will not be considered further .
2 There is no pretence of competition with commercial banks for private sector business , and there is some suggestion that the accounts are maintained in order for the Bank to keep in touch with banking practice , although the degree to which such experience accrues is likely to be limited given the small number of accounts relative to a commercial bank .
3 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 .
4 San Antonio has since joined the small number of US museums which are now active on the antiquities market .
5 As a compendium of illustrations , invariably in good colour , it gives a visual document of the artist 's development unmatched by any other publication , particularly since it illustrates the small number of major works which could not be loaned to the exhibition .
6 This week , Mark Richmond , chairman of the SERC , compared the small number of researchers who can use the NSF with the many more who can use other facilities at the same time .
7 So we 've all finished our trees now I 'm going to write out what I 've got on mine and I 'm going to pick the smallest numbers first .
8 We have had the smallest number of new home completions in the city since 1982-83 .
9 I then multiply it by five and the larger number exceeds the smaller number by 8 .
10 Large numbers of recruits to English would offset the small numbers who were expected to apply for French .
11 In searching for question 7 for example , the examiner must open the book fully at each page until he spots the small number 7 almost tucked into the binding .
12 While further compounding the small numbers problem , there were interesting differences between the two course types .
13 Votes are successively transferred from candidates who have a surplus of votes over and above the quota and from candidates excluded as having the smallest number of votes in the relevant count .
14 17 Find the smallest number which can be divided by 12 and 16 leaving the remainder 3 in each case .
15 This group contained the smallest number of cases , ( 19 ) and the excess was based on eight patients only .
16 The lack of a significant difference in risk between combined categories A–C and category D may reflect the small numbers and thus wide confidence intervals in group D.
17 Vulnerable old person This term will be used to distinguish the small number of very frail old people from the majority of competent independent elderly people over 65 .
18 In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X .
19 Thirdly , in the study by Meshkinpour over a third of the patients were referred with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease compared with 14.2% in our study , and it was this patient population which yielded the smallest number of positive diagnoses in our experience .
20 The modern primary Church of England school which caters for about 60 children serves a wide catchment area — in fact at the moment Lockington village provides the smallest number , the rest travelling from Lund , Aike , Wilfholme and surrounding farms .
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