Example sentences of "have the [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Families headed by single lone mothers have the lowest number of dependent children ( 1.3 ) and are the only category of lone mother family in which family size has not declined ( Haskey , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | That is why we have cut interest rates seven times in a year and halved inflation in a year , have the lowest number of strikes for half a century and have cut the basic rate of tax . |
| 3 | These areas also have the greatest number of nerve connections . |
| 4 | Predictably , below the top 20 firms , it is the larger firms that have the greater number of listed clients , and there are no firms with fewer than seven partners acting for more than two listed companies . |
| 5 | It 's vitally important that when you 're doing it I 'll do it up here that you have the dots , you have the spacing , you have the correct number of lines underneath , you have the accidentals , you have the accents , you have the phrase mark and so on . |
| 6 | Spring this on them at the worst possible time ; make sure they 're all in the corridor if possible , so you have the maximum number of potential victims . |
| 7 | Singers like Dennis Brown have taken up Marley 's mantle ; so too have the growing number of rap poets whose patois English is well-nigh incomprehensible to non-Jamaican ears . |
| 8 | For Preston , the North leaders , merely beating Bradford will be no guarantee of retaining top place in the AW Yarns competition since Ben Rhydding and Alderley Edge have the same number of points . |
| 9 | ‘ Prime Ministers always have to consider balance in the Cabinet — and at least we now have the same number of women as old Etonians in John Major 's team , ’ she said . |
| 10 | All Land Rovers and Range Rovers have the same number of studs and the same pitch circle diameter , so , potentially , all wheels are interchangeable . |
| 11 | Look for low-fat products ; although butter and margarine normally have the same number of calories ( 210 per 1 oz/28g ) , there are low-fat spreads with only half as many . |
| 12 | Isotopes of an element have the same number of protons in the nucleus — and hence the same chemical properties — but different numbers of neutrons , and thus have slightly different masses . |
| 13 | This occurs when teams have the same number of league points . |
| 14 | All polyunsaturated oils have the same number of calories — 120 per tablespoon — but they vary in their saturation levels . |
| 15 | Men and women have the same number of hairs on their face — 15,000 ! |
| 16 | In studying children 's ability to conserve number , when two rows of counters are initially lined up in one-to-one correspondence , the child will agree that the rows have the same number . |
| 17 | Asked again if the rows have the same number , four-year-olds will typically say ‘ no ’ , that the spread-out row has more . |
| 18 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 19 | He used it to explain how different chemical compounds may contain the same elements in the same proportions — ‘ isomerism ’ — because their atoms are differently arranged , and how different substances may have the same crystalline form — ‘ isomorphism ’ — because they have the same number of atoms in the same arrangement . |
| 20 | Give or take a few minor exceptions , all members have the same number of chromosomes , and every location along the length of a chromosome has its exact opposite number in the same position along the length of the corresponding chromosome in all other members of the species . |
| 21 | These are all traditional set operators and they require that all relations included in one operation have the same degree , that is , they have the same number of columns ( referred to as union compatibility ) . |
| 22 | And just to remind you what I was saying , if you 've just switched on , what I was just confirming with Colin er earlier , is that erm it 's slightly different in this competition to what we 've been accustomed to in the football league er this and last season , in as far as it 's not goals scored that 's important when you have the same number of points , it is goal difference . |
| 23 | ‘ You have the wrong number . |
| 24 | ‘ The callers do n't want to hear that they have the wrong number , ’ says Howard Eckstein , Opto Plus 's owner . |
| 25 | ‘ You have the wrong number . |