Example sentences of "number of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past we have held a number of fund-raising events in the area . |
| 2 | The number of 11–16 schools ( without sixth forms in them , that is ) was growing — from 9 per cent in 1965 to 21 per cent in 1968 . |
| 3 | Scientists attempting to calculate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations are in exactly the same position : the only evidence we have for life anywhere in the Universe is confined to this planet . |
| 4 | The number of rail–served collieries in South Wales declined dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 5 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 6 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 7 | In fact , the number of left-wing activists was never large but their impact was out of all proportion to their numbers because they found new methods of protest which caught the imagination of much larger numbers . |
| 8 | They are , in any case , based on a number of unproved assumptions about how people learn , about the instilling of habits as against the development of understanding which , if they were examined , would probably be found to have no foundation or utility . |
| 9 | Anthony Kasozi 's work as ACET 's Director in uganda has recently received financial support form Tear Fund which has enabled him , together with ACET General Manager , Maurice Adams , to identify a number of church-based projects for the coming year . |
| 10 | Labelling index per cent ( LI% ) was measured by counting the number of bromodeoxyuridine-positive cells and expressing the result as a percentage of the total number of cells in a crypt . |
| 11 | There have been a large number of syntactic theories proposed and an even larger number of parsing systems developed . |
| 12 | ( a ) ( 18 ) There is some discrepancy between the number of orthographic words ( see 1 ) and the number of syntactic words : for example , we count could n't as two syntactic words ( modal auxiliary + negative particle ) , but a few as one syntactic word ( determiner ) . |
| 13 | The maximum presidential mandate was limited to two terms of seven years each ( whereas previously the president could serve for an unlimited number of five-year terms ) . |
| 14 | Rather , α needs to be determined by some sort of average of the values for a number of preceding trials as in the following equation : ( 3.2 ) |
| 15 | The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort . |
| 16 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 17 | A number of audio-visual tape/slide presentations dealing with various aspects of library user instruction had been produce d under the SCONUL tape/slide programme , at a number of British university libraries . |
| 18 | Easingwold was described by Joseph Morris as ‘ a quiet old town , with a number of respectable houses ’ . |
| 19 | But in 1953 the authorities solemnly sought to destroy copies of " The Kinsey Report " , and in 1956 a number of respectable publishers — Secker and Warburg , Heinemann and Hutchinsons — were all tried at the Old Bailey for " horrible tendencies " discovered in their current fiction lists . |
| 20 | A number of respectable gentlemen in the town and neighbourhood of Manchester , being desirous that this plan shall include the whole of the township of Manchester and Salford , and as much of the adjoining townships , as will fall within that square , which will be formed from the extensions of the said two townships , Mr. Green hopes that this will be a sufficient apology for advancing the subscription to one guinea each copy . ’ |
| 21 | In fact , a number of underwater animals have sufficiently delicate electric sensors to detect induced currents and they appear to use them to orient themselves . |
| 22 | In many cases , this association of boundaries with mills means either that the mills were in existence when the boundaries were defined ( thus indicating an increased number of Anglo-Saxon mill sites and a more extensive interference with river courses than we formerly thought ) , or that special arrangements were made to alter parish boundaries when new mills were built . |
| 23 | We calculated the ‘ prospective risk of stillbirth ’ at week N , a newly proposed statistic , as : ( number of stillbirths at or beyond gestational week N ) ( number of total births at or beyond gestational week N ) 1000 . |
| 24 | PER CENT ( PERCENTAGE ) — A proportion or a part in a hundred ; i.e. the number of cases of a part divided by the number of total cases and multiplied by 100 . |
| 25 | The average number of total thymocytes of these littermates was given the value of 100% , and the number of total thymocytes in individual mutant mice was converted into a percentage . |
| 26 | The average number of total thymocytes of these littermates was given the value of 100% , and the number of total thymocytes in individual mutant mice was converted into a percentage . |
| 27 | The number of DP thymocytes was calculated by multiplying the number of total thymocytes with the percentage of DP thymocytes . |
| 28 | And so if we look at what happened generally between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two the general picture is that the number of total holidays taken actually fell by three percent . |
| 29 | The number of total hip replacement operations performed in Britain is now starting to stabilise at about 40000 a year . |
| 30 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |