Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] the [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not obvious to the very young child that a set of objects has the same number of units however those units are arranged ( provided , of , that none are removed or added ) . |
| 2 | On Day 1 , Groups L and M are given a number of sessions on the pebble floor without food ; Group N has the same number of sessions , but with food , and therefore learns the distinction . |
| 3 | This borough has the highest number |
| 4 | Of course some pound notes may be used more frequently than others , and some may not be used at all , but the velocity of circulation measures the average number of times a unit of currency is used . |
| 5 | The figure shows the cumulative number of these infants placed to sleep prone . |
| 6 | Our study documents the largest number of cases of person-to-person transmission of a single P cepacia strain within and between regional CF centres , and describes social contacts before colonisation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A bar chart is simply a series of blocks or bars in which each bar represents the total number of items being compared . |
| 9 | The tape should be marked with 1 of x , where } x{ represents the final number of tapes used to archive the table . |
| 10 | This column displays the current number of errors , in the range 0 to 1000 , which have been reported on the media item in this and previous Offline Cycles . |
| 11 | This column displays the current number of errors , in the range 0 to 100 , reported on the media unit in this and previous Offline Cycles . |
| 12 | Although not quite so export orientated , the Electronics sector sustains the greatest number of jobs through its exports followed by the Mechanical engineering industries . |
| 13 | Jeans salesman David Fish says the correct number should not be hard to remember if 501 wearers simply turn round and examine the big letters printed on their backsides . |
| 14 | This column shows the approximate number of 512 byte blocks free on the media item , in the range 0 to 10000000 . |
| 15 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This technique may also provide valuable information on the pathogenesis of cerebral embolism , and our case shows the large number of apparently symptomless emboli that may arise in such patients . |
| 18 | The score places the grotesque number for six dancing monkeys as the second of a sequence of three orchestral numbers played during a spectacular scene shift : |
| 19 | The closure of Bairdwear at Aycliffe brings the total number of textile job losses in South Wear Durham and Cleveland over the past 12 months to more than 1,000 . |
| 20 | This recent police video reflects the increasing number of opportunistic thefts from drivers in heavy urban traffic . |
| 21 | The concept of equality of outcomes does not mean that each person obtains the same number of marks in the same number of examinations , but that a representative individual of any group has the same probability of success as a representative individual of any other group . |
| 22 | This provision is to cover the situation where a person works the same number of hours within , say 4 days , instead of 5 . |
| 23 | Even with a much smaller capacity than Wembley , Swindon 's County Ground accommodates the same number of disabled fans . |
| 24 | Of all British cities Glasgow has the largest number of council flats in high blocks : 33,600 in blocks of five or more storeys ( almost twice the total of its nearest challenger , Birmingham ) , the majority resulting from a compressed ‘ burst ’ of construction in the 1960s . |
| 25 | The largest market in South America is Venezuela , and United Distillers has the clear number one brand in the deluxe , the standard and the locally bottled Scotch whisky sectors . |
| 26 | When fertilisation occurs the diploid number is restored . |
| 27 | It would seem to be middle sized undertaking , since the very large business will employ personnel managers and legal experts who need no introduction to the subject , while the smaller operator ( the book quotes the average number of goods vehicles per operator 's licence as no more than three trucks ) is normally too concerned with driving by the seat of his pants while looking over his shoulder at legal requirements ( one may envisage ! ) to worry unduly about the skills of communication or the restrictions on picketing flowing from decisions of the courts as well as statute in the event of a major dispute . |
| 28 | I then multiply it by five and the larger number exceeds the smaller number by 8 . |
| 29 | Mr Major embodies the growing number of people who , though not mystified about their humble class origins , no longer believe they should remain , as he put it , ‘ boxed in ’ to them forever . |
| 30 | With three clubs — Aylesbury , Basingstoke and Woking — in today 's second round , the Vauxhall League boasts the same number of representatives at this stage as the GM Vauxhall Conference . |