Example sentences of "[adv] a finite number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Higenbottam , who is attending a two-day symposium of the British Thoracic Society in London , said : ‘ There is only a finite number of human organs available because we have to wait for someone to die . |
| 2 | As there are only a finite number of edge pieces and the process RU can take only one edge piece into a new ‘ edge piece ’ position , this sequence must cycle back to the beginning and we denote this ‘ 7-cycle ’ as ( FR , UF , UL , UB , UR , BR , DR ) . |
| 3 | Finally , we will be considering digital computers , where data is stored and manipulated by devices that can assume one of only a finite number of states , rather than by devices which can assume any state in a prescribed continuous range ( as in analog computers ) . |
| 4 | Proof Suppose there is only a finite number , n , say , of positive primes . |
| 5 | There is nothing in the notion of oppositeness , for instance , which dictates that there should necessarily be only a finite number of opposite pairs in a language . |
| 6 | To a beetle crawling over the surface there is no edge or boundary , but there is only a finite number of pebbles . |
| 7 | In the 1920s and 1930s quantum mechanics was applied with great success to systems such as atoms or molecules , which have only a finite number of degrees of freedom . |
| 8 | However , in 1971 Gerard 't Hooft showed that a unified model of the electromagnetic and weak interactions that had been proposed earlier by Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg was indeed renormalizable with only a finite number of infinite subtractions . |
| 9 | There appears to be only a finite number of such theories . |
| 10 | The quantum theory of an atom requires that each of its components , its electrons for example , should be dealt with separately , but at worst there is only a finite number of them . |
| 11 | The probability of the universal generalization being true is thus a finite number divided by an infinite number , which remains zero however much the finite number of observation statements constituting the evidence is increased . |