Example sentences of "[adj] number [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modified homologous chromosomes separate and move to opposite poles where new nuclei form , each with the haploid number of chromosomes . |
| 2 | The widespread confusion between raw number of passes and percentage pass rates is illustrative here . |
| 3 | The cumulative number of words assigned the correct ranks for these texts are shown in diagrammatic form in fig 4.9a and 4.9b . |
| 4 | In 1982–83 nearly 800 children in England and Wales were made the subject of care orders as a result of divorce or other family proceedings and the cumulative number of children in care as a result of such orders was more than 7000 , costing approximately £400 million a year ( Family Courts Campaign , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | The rate is proportional to the derivative of the cumulative number of publications in a field , from the time of its origin . |
| 6 | For each of the areas a recommended number of periods was given . |
| 7 | This should not surprise us , if we remember that , even after another millennium of evolution Zeus was still credited with the ability to transform himself into an infinite number of forms : a bull , a swan , thunder and lightning , and a shower of gold . |
| 8 | Most Hindus whom I have met would say that they do not , for they believe that at the heart of life is Oneness — Brahman — which manifests itself in an infinite number of forms . |
| 9 | To have an infinite number of pebbles you 'd have to have a rubber sheet that was more or less flat and just went on and on for ever . |
| 10 | This situation is , of course , only one of an infinite number of models but while it is clearly impossible to generalize about the impact of party politics , any attempt to understand local public administration without reference to the party-political dimension is doomed to failure . |
| 11 | Among the manufacturers houses are likewise scattered an infinite number of cottages or small dwellings , in which dwell the workmen which are employed , the women and children of whom are always busy carding , spinning , &C. so that no hands being unemploy 'd , all can gain their bread , even from the youngest to the antient ; hardly any thing above four years old , but its hands are sufficient to itself … |
| 12 | A bird in the hand is never worth an infinite number of birds in the bush . |
| 13 | This stage game is repeated a finite or an infinite number of times , then play ends . |
| 14 | For any infinite sequence of symbols 1,2,3 and 4 allowed by Fig. 6.6b we can find a vertical line of points ( arrived at by taking away " two-thirds ' of an interval an infinite number of times ) from which trajectories pass through the four shaded areas in the prescribed sequence . |
| 15 | In a letter to Kepler of 1597 he was more concerned by the prospect of being dubbed a fool by that ‘ infinite number of fools ’ who found a moving earth derisory . |
| 16 | The interpretation of these observations , based on theory , is that there is actually an infinite number of changes like that from ( a ) to ( b ) or from ( b ) to ( c ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I can not say why , precisely , but for hundreds , thousands — an infinite number of reasons — you fascinated me , and that fascination encouraged in me the desire to live , something that abandoned me on the death of my sister . |
| 18 | This proposition may be illustrated by considering a situation in which an investor creates a portfolio consisting of share I and the market portfolio M. If the proportion invested in I is defined as W i ( in effect W i measures the excess demand for asset I when positive and excess supply of asset I when negative ; when W i is zero then the capital market is in equilibrium as there is neither excess demand nor excess supply of asset I ) and the proportion invested in M as ( ) , an infinite number of portfolios may be created where the weights for I may vary between +1and -1 . |
| 19 | Designed to replace the old blue plates with their yellow numbers , the State 's Department of Motor Vehicles was proud of the fact that the new plates ‘ offer an almost infinite number of combinations ’ , but was nervous about where some of those combinations might lead them . |
| 20 | But even more , the student should come to understand that there are an infinite number of frameworks with which to describe the world ; and that none has any binding claim over the others . |
| 21 | Very many cases indeed which come to the attention of the sex counsellor or therapist have this basis , in an almost infinite number of guises . |
| 22 | To Malebranche , for example , it appeared not unreasonable that there were an infinite number of trees in a single seed ; this , he argued , would only seem extravagant to those who measured God 's powers by their own imagination . |
| 23 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 24 | The energies of all the infinite number of degrees of freedom would cause the apparent mass and charge of the electron to become infinite . |
| 25 | [ That would correspond to the ordered n-tuple unc I With a little care one can even have an infinite number of terms on the right hand side . |
| 26 | Clearly , however , the infinite number of variables prohibits the formulation of any ‘ rule of thumb ’ ; complexity and ambiguity remain the order of the day , hence the inappropriateness of generalizations . |
| 27 | But the electromagnetic field has an infinite number of variables , one for each point in spacetime . |
| 28 | I see the camera closing to find her old Masai friends gathering after a day , another of the infinite number of days , spent caring for the cattle . |
| 29 | It is then possible that a sequence both of coordinate transformations ( 12.19 ) and Ehlers transformations ( 12.20 ) in the potential space can be applied alternately to generate a further class of solutions with an infinite number of parameters . |
| 30 | Such a theory would have no predictive power because one could never measure all the infinite number of parameters . |