Example sentences of "the average number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse code is unequal in length so conversion of the above information into words per minute requires knowledge of the average number of unit elements , equal to a five-letter word plus one word space . |
| 2 | The average number of permanent residents throughout the year was 43 and 250 people benefited from periods of convalescence and respite care . |
| 3 | As a result the average number of people in a house , which was 4.0 in 1931 , was reduced to 3.5 by 1939 . |
| 4 | A spokesman for Schroders , the Government 's merchant bankers , said : ‘ We have found that the average number of shares has increased as we have gone through the applications . ’ |
| 5 | A spokesman for Schroders , the Government 's merchant bankers , said : ‘ We have found that the average number of shares has increased as we have gone through the applications . ’ |
| 6 | The average number of conscripts in training has fallen from 80,000 to about 15,000 . |
| 7 | By 2031 the average number of homes passed on each year , excluding bequests to spouses , could be 343,000 — more than double the current average ( see chart ) . |
| 8 | ( The fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would have if she lived to the end of her child-bearing years and bore children at the prevailing rate for each age during that period . ) |
| 9 | In southern California the average number of passengers per journey is 1.13 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The likely total number of dies can then be multiplied by the average number of coins per die . |
| 12 | Given this array of serious offences committed by the AEC sample it is not surprising that the average number of previous convictions was seven , with only 10 per cent having no previous convictions compared with 28 per cent who had ten or more . |
| 13 | Among the former the number of fledglings produced per pair on average was 1.1 and the average number of offspring still alive after three months after fledging was 0.5 ( n = 47 ) . |
| 14 | The average number of boats moved per day was about 8 , far below the number that the lift was equipped to move . |
| 15 | This measures the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced the prevailing age pattern of childbearing throughout her reproductive lifetime . |
| 16 | The average number of mites found in a case of scabies is about ten . |
| 17 | Taking each of his subject categories in turn he divides the total annual issues by the number of books in the category to achieve a nominal figure of the average number of issues per book . |
| 18 | Secondly , the average number of titles selected — 627 — is relatively low , suggesting a very rough total of 4,000 titles per annum from the annual total of 47,000 BNB entries for that year . |
| 19 | The average number of index changes for any one month was previously 210 . |
| 20 | The average number of quarrels per hour was three to four , although this was probably an underestimation . |
| 21 | Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ? |
| 22 | ‘ The average number of vehicles passed through the shops for repairs annually is 8,100 … . there are 3,200 employed at Wolverton , while outside we have 2,000 at Crewe , Carlisle and Willesden , and scattered over the line ’ . |
| 23 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |
| 24 | In a recent study of outpatient counselling of overdose patients , the average number of treatment sessions after the initial assessment was three , with a range of between one and eight sessions ( Hawton et al . |
| 25 | Thus the average number recorded annually in each five-year period since 1947 was : |
| 26 | A total of about 560 individuals is involved in these records and comparison with data given by des Forges and Harber suggests some increase , the average number recorded each year having risen from about 15 annually until 1961 to over 55 annually since 1967 . |
| 27 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 28 | Randles , for example , found that while for observations of UAPs the average number of witnesses per sighting was about 2.6 , this number fell dramatically for abductions to an average of only 1.3 . |
| 29 | The first year 's trapping suggested that Platycheirus albimanus was the commonest garden hoverfly , forming almost a fifth of the total catch ; a fifth of the species trapped in 1972 were represented by only one individual , and the average number of individuals per species was 29 . |
| 30 | The average number of casting faults which had to be repaired is well over twice as high in the alloy heads as in the copper ones . |