Example sentences of "number of [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE dynamics of an age-structured population depend on the probability l(x) of surviving from birth to age x , and the expected number of offspring at that age , m(x) . |
| 2 | Use boards to work from to avoid disturbing newly laid blocks and only lay sufficient sand to deal with a comfortable number of blocks at any one time . |
| 3 | The average number of choices at each point was only 10 . |
| 4 | There have been a number of attempts at detailed classification , some very involved and certainly not avoiding a great deal of overlapping of the categories . |
| 5 | This discussion held a number of themes at different levels . |
| 6 | Not all of the 269 constituencies in England and Wales went to the polls every time : indeed , the average number of contests at each general election was a little under 100 . |
| 7 | At the same time Metal Bashers Ltd , a company with a weight of 0.005 , was removed from the index to keep the total number of companies at 100 . |
| 8 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 9 | Provincial cities which had ten to twelve theatres now have one or two and probably there were double the number of actors at that time . |
| 10 | Intel says that it will introduce personal computer add-in boards and software later this year , but refused to confirm a report in US PC Week that places the number of products at 20 and says that the first launch will be in April . |
| 11 | There were no representatives from Contact on any of these committees , although the group constituted almost one-third of the overall number of users at one of the centres and almost one-half at the other two . |
| 12 | The school will be monitored by means of the number of passes at 7 , 11 , and 14 that it can record . |
| 13 | Craigievar Castle too has special problems in that it is a tower house and can only take a limited number of visitors at any time . |
| 14 | The high number of sites very close to water can be equated with the number of sites at low altitudes , sea-level and up to 15 m above sea level . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The crucial figure in this decision is the maximum number of loans at any one time . |
| 17 | Achieve the effect by having a number of loudspeakers at lowish level , preferably facing in the same direction . |
| 18 | It is for just such situations that the army plans and trains , and many years of trial and error have resulted in a hierarchy in which the number of subordinates at most levels is between 3 and 6 . |
| 19 | the number of employees at this office . |
| 20 | We used the number of deaths at 3 , 6 , 9 , 12 , and 18 months as the endpoints because we were unable to obtain all the individual data . |
| 21 | We used the number of deaths at 3 , 6 , 9 , 12 , and 18 months as the endpoints , because information on individual patients was not available . |
| 22 | I suggest that in our social hospitality we should follow an example set by India during the war years and limit the number of guests at all such functions to fifty . |
| 23 | Previous studies have recorded in normal volunteers and in patients with PSS the number of swallows at specific intervals that were needed to clear a given amount of acid placed in the oesophagus . |
| 24 | By 1987 the European Commission had joined the UN ECE in the forest survey business and required all member states to undertake a standard grid survey , reporting on a set number of trees at regular 16 km intervals , using a common method . |
| 25 | While some of these divisions represent a branch point , many of the divisions are only proliferative , and serve to amplify the number of cells at that particular stage in the lineage . |
| 26 | We see the provision of information from Visitor Centres at all of our sites as being one of the most significant ways in which we can make the information resources of the Garden available to the maximum number of people at reasonable cost . |
| 27 | They should seek to organise the maximum number of people at local level to bring pressure to bear on local authorities , on Stormont , but particularly on Westminster . |
| 28 | Unlike its predecessor , the standing committee will continue working but has already felt able to recommend a small increase in the target number of places at medical schools . |
| 29 | There are a number of reasons why I have chosen to express these findings in terms of number of word-strings rather than in average number of words at each choice point ( branching factor ) . |
| 30 | If the goal of our search is to find the highest scoring path that spans the complete utterance a straightforward breadth-first algorithm would have to check approximately bn paths , where b is the average number of words at each choice point and n is the length of the utterance . |