Example sentences of "be made [prep] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the date is to be precise to the year of felling , the bark must also be present , otherwise an estimate must be made of the number of missing rings corresponding to likely wastage by the carpenter . |
| 2 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 3 | A decision might have to be made about the number of elderly people for which it is possible to take responsibility in any one family . |
| 4 | The Audit Commission has said that if all authorities did as well as the average , significant reductions could be made in the number of families living in temporary accommodation . |
| 5 | Orthographic content is estimated by a tedious but accurate procedure by which a count is made of the number of times each letter appears in each position in a word of specific length . |
| 6 | A broad count was made of the number of individual programmes or courses , described or referred to , within all the information supplied by each authority , in order to impose a general framework on the data collected . |