Example sentences of "of [art] number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunter says Caterdata was chosen largely because it is ‘ user-friendly , simple to use in terms of the number of keystrokes people need to make , and quick to learn ’ . |
| 2 | As already mentioned , many plans had to be changed in the light of the recession and these included reduction of the number of Cross Country HSTs . |
| 3 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 4 | However , Mr Howell said ‘ it gave no indication of the number of transactions arranged , the income and expenditure they had produced , the type of risks involved , the scale of any potential gains and the exposure to loss ’ . |
| 5 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 6 | However , Monday morning is also busy because of the number of premises that are found broken into after the weekend . |
| 7 | If your employee has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week , regardless of the number of hours worked , she is eligible for lower rate SMP . |
| 8 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 9 | It also has implications in terms of the number of jobs , in that you need far fewer people . |
| 10 | • Estimates of the number of journalists at the S-class release varied between 600 to 700 . |
| 11 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 12 | Although there is no generally agreed forecast of the number of Anglican churches likely to be declared ‘ redundant ’ , the Bridges Commission of 1960 suggested that 790 buildings could be involved . |
| 13 | This differs from the Abbey National share allocation , where just one share allocation was permitted per saver , regardless of the number of accounts held . |
| 14 | Narcotics agents believe a conservative estimate of the number of laboratories is between 200 and 300 . |
| 15 | It took about 300 hours , but it was time well spent , the practice believes , because of the number of inaccuracies in the FPC register — around 40 per cent . |
| 16 | Estimates of the number of small cetaceans taken deliberately and accidentally around the coastline of France are as high as 3000 animals each year . |
| 17 | All the data published on the effect of gill-nets on small cetaceans probably represents a conservative estimate of the number of deaths . |
| 18 | Baumol 's theory of contestable markets states that consumer welfare can be maximised regardless of the number of firms in an industry , as long as it is greater than one . |
| 19 | And it is in no way ashamed of the number of votes received . |
| 20 | ‘ By the late eighties the global plans of the major US multinationals will have created a massive UK trade deficit of around seven billion pounds which will go on increasing with the growth of the number of vehicles in use . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Table 1 : Comparison of the number of working days on which slurry application machines could n't be used because the ground was too wet . |
| 23 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 24 | More than one lord lieutenant told me almost apologetically of the number of supplicants who sought his intervention with the democratically-chosen authorities . |
| 25 | This is still only about one eighth of the number of people required to fill public appointments of one kind or another . |
| 26 | In spite of the number of old wives tales about lucerne , it can be fed as the only hay to a horse , and in fact it is often preferable to do so . |
| 27 | The Americans , called on to prove their sincerity , could only do so in terms of the number of Hawks and TOWs that had already been shipped . |
| 28 | Geographically isolated and heavily policed because of the number of VIPs who live in the constituency , it is not an easy target for the gunman or bomber seeking a swift escape from his latest atrocity . |
| 29 | The 10,576 crowd on Saturday , as subdued as the players , was 7,000 short of the number of tickets Portsmouth have sold for tonight . |
| 30 | Targets should be established for employing ethnic minorities and disabled people , and monitoring of the number of screen appearances by women and minorities . |