Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the same number of men as women and |
| 2 | Oh hang on the ex-directory number 's ringing . |
| 3 | Perhaps the greatest number of casualties among the modern pharmaceuticals occurs in the realm of the antibiotics as one after another falls victim to the amazing abilities of bacteria to adapt to them , so that more new ones continually have to be developed . |
| 4 | So the first number , listen to this the first number and try and hold on to it . |
| 5 | , so the complex number that is the square root , is either two in that pair , minus five , plus three , nine , or it is five minus three , nine , so it 's either that one , or it 's that one , and we can write that down very , very simply because that one and that one are just the opposite sides , but either plus or minus . |
| 6 | So the total number of transactions will be ten , and the average price of each transaction is £16 / 10 = £1.60 . |
| 7 | So the total number of biomorphs that we could jump to in a single step is 19 times itself 9 times over : 19 to the power 9 . |
| 8 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 9 | So the expected number of empty cells available for the second segment is zp i , and having removed one more vacant cell from the immediate vicinity , the third and each succeeding segment will have empty cells to choose from . |
| 10 | It is solicitors , not barristers , who conduct much the greater number of cases in the lesser courts — county courts and magistrates ' courts . |
| 11 | The probability of the universal generalization being true is thus a finite number divided by an infinite number , which remains zero however much the finite number of observation statements constituting the evidence is increased . |
| 12 | But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them . |
| 13 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 14 | Only the minimum number of officers necessary will visit homes and parents will always be told what they are doing and why . |
| 15 | In cases like these local landowners allowed the construction of only the minimum number of houses needed to accommodate their permanently employed labour force , often in ‘ estate villages ’ . |
| 16 | If not , subjects with limited literature may be subdivided too extensively , producing unused or little used subdivisions , whereas ‘ large ’ subjects , if allocated only the same number of subdivisions , will have some trying to accommodate unmanageable quantities of literature . |
| 17 | The conference brought together the largest number of women organizations to date and included representatives from the following women 's organizations ; |
| 18 | links together the growing number of people in this country and abroad interested in the Medau Rhythmic Movement . |
| 19 | The Medau Society was formed in 1952 to link together the growing number of people throughout Britain interested in Medau Rhythmic Movement , and to train part-time teachers to supplement the work of the few German trained teachers . |
| 20 | For all diagnostic categories taken together the expected number is 0.60 ( standardised registration ratio=667 ) . |
| 21 | In 1621 the French mathematician Bachet de Meziriac observed that apparently every positive number could be expressed as a sum of at most four squares . |
| 22 | But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 . |
| 23 | There is obviously a vast number of such possible trajectories . |
| 24 | The mail-shot received a high response rate of over 43% — 13 replies from 30 enquiries — so a higher number of negative responses was expected , bearing in mind that people are generally swifter to complain than to praise . |
| 25 | You , you get used to the idea that all squares must be positive , so a negative number ca n't have a square root . |
| 26 | The more dedicated among them combed both the cultivated and wild places of the world in search of novelties and in doing so a good number of them lost their lives , in some cases in tragic circumstances . |
| 27 | As a relatively small number of library authorities carry out a high amount of training , so a small number of libraries spend a high proportion of the money budgeted : 19 libraries accounted for 55% of this money , although employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 28 | It would n't have be so a great number . |
| 29 | A larger number of people are getting married , so a larger number of people will get divorced if the divorce-rate stays the same . |
| 30 | The numbers within the Council Tax Control Team have been based on a pro rata of case load plus a 20% increase for personal elements less a nominal number to reflect the transfer of routine functions to the operational teams . |