Number Sentence Examples

You have my number, don't you?

Soon they came into the main road where a number of the king's men were waiting.

I told you not to give my number to anyone.

It has a large number of landlocked nations without ports to access the international markets, both for imports and exports.

To me, that's problem number one.

Brennan gave me the phone number even though I didn't agree to call.

He rattled off his number and then gave Connie a stern look.

There could be a number of reasons that Sarah would welcome her as a daughter-in-law, not the least of which was the goings-on down that path.

I'll get the number.

I don't want you to give that number to anyone unless it's an emergency, you understand?

But you remember some more of the number, don't you?

But when she asked Giddon to give Connie his phone number, he looked suspiciously from one of them to the other.

What a wicked thought to have about the man who had risked his life to protect her - not once, but a number of times in the last few days - and with so little to gain.

I am only one of a number of concerned citizen contributors.

In 1916, the number of cases just in New York City was reported to be nine thousand.

The number wasn't familiar, but she answered.

A large number of private schools are maintained through Church influence in opposition to the public schools.

Now the number is in the single digits.

She was working recently with the number forty, when I said to her, "Make twos."

I know the number of your battalions as exactly as I know my own.

I'll ask him for the phone number.

He reached a dark van and left, without lights before Howie could make out a plate number.

I went back to my computer to retrieve a phone number, then on to the secure phone line.

She creates premium services on her site that cost just $9.95 a year that include a number of additional features and virtual goods.

These stores are able to increase trade a number of ways.

Connie would have told Len about the fact that Yancey didn't want to give her his phone number.

Then she dialed Howard's number.

If a state has received an increase in the number of its representatives and its legislature does not pass an apportionment bill before the next congressional election, the votes of the whole state elect the additional members on a general ticket and they are called "congressmen-at-large."

Swallowing her pride, she dialed Mary's number.

I opened each somewhere in the middle and held it flat on the table after recording the title and page number.

Howie obtained a full description of the man and his vehicle and the license plate number.

Howie was able to follow her to a vehicle and relate the plate number!

Howie had watched her abduction after several attempts, but failed to capture the license plate number.

Thank god they didn't see my license plate number.

The vehicle was different but this time he was able to record the South Carolina license plate number.

Did he call in my plate number?

God, and now we have a description and plate number!

I can sense the ghost, with trembling fingers dialing the number!

We have an address and phone number.

Did you find the number?

I thought only briefly before giving him Daniel Brennan's phone number.

It displayed Quinn and Martha's number.

The guy driving is wanted nationwide for a number of murders!

Jackson put out the word on the vehicle description and plate number.

I figured his number related to settings on his equipment.

It contained a name and a phone number.

She patted the pocket in her skirt containing the paper on which Jule had scribbled down the phone number of the towering man before her.

Perhaps you have the wrong number?

He glanced at the number and let it go to voicemail, not recognizing it.

He typed in the last number.

She pulled out the cell he'd given her and called the only number in it.

A number of cars carried out of state license plates.

Give me her phone number in Indiana.

He got the license number too.

The ratio of representation fixed by the original constitution was i to 30,000 of the free population, and the number of the members of the first House was 65.

The extraordinary number of craters, a few of which are reported still to be active, gives evidence that the archipelago is the result of volcanic action.

He watched anxiously as she dialed the number.

With a heavy heart, she called his number.

A number of those in attendance asked if the service was still on for seven o'clock.

I didn't at first recognize the New Hampshire number but remembered I'd given mine to Detective Jackson.

I explained to Howie as I dialed the police officer's number.

The La Cumbre one; that sound most likely; do you have a phone number?

In nine months, we as a group, tracked an unknown number of missing children, culling out two hundred and eleven Howie attempted to locate.

He grated his teeth to see Darian's number on the screen.

He has to do that, or he'd be in violation of rule number one.

Dusty pulled his phone free and saw Toni's number flash across the screen.

I think that's an optimistic count of the number of participants.

He glanced down to see Speck's number on his screen.

He took the pen and paper and scrawled down a number before handing it to her.

The number of female vamps outnumbered the number of female Guardians, and she ducked into the locker room for the females.

The number of beings capable of killing one was less than five, and the last thing they needed was an Original Being showing up to complicate matters.

Um, hi, I, uh, found this number on Dr. Bylun's blog.

Sofia hung up and stared at the number on the paper, wondering if Jake had lied to her or if he flat out screwed up the number.

Her cell rang, and she recognized her doctor's number.

Damian opened his PDA to do a quick search on the number.

I gave her your number, but I doubt she called.

Her phone rang, and she saw Dr. Mallard's number flash on the screen.

The situation in Europe plagued him, as did the declining number of Guardians.

His cell rang before it could upload the number of voicemails and texts.

As soon as we get a number, it goes inoperable.

Do I have D's number? a warm, male voice on the other end said.

That's the number of Guardians you've killed directly with your actions over the past few thousand years.

He entered the second number and came to the final keypad.

Sofia's phone vibrated, and she pulled it out, wondering who had her number.

The party meal was a bust, with everyone aware that the next dinner would be absent one of their number, perhaps for good.

But his distress was short-lived, and he talked a number of lodgers into a late afternoon dip at the pool.

His bike awaited, but when he divided the hundred promised miles a week by seven, the number was daunting.

He decided to move on to problem number two and find out something about the tiny bone he'd discovered.

The number fell to three when a dinnertime caller remembered someone opening their purchase in the parking lot.

The family lived in Chicago and hadn't provided a phone number when they registered at Bird Song.

I tried to get a number to call her back but she said no incoming calls were allowed.

Even more disconcerting, while Dean knew a small number of those present, he didn't spot a one of Fred's supportive cronies.

He grumbled something about getting one of those "take a number" dispensers the big city post offices had, right below their self-serving signs applauding their high level of service.

Paul was number three in the computer line, behind Brandon Westlake, and brother Joseph.

A number of Bird Song's more recent guests were bickering over differing rules to Mexican Train Dominoes in the dining room while others were trading Boardwalk and Park Place in the parlor.

Fred O'Connor was nearest and talked in subdued and nervous conversation, reaching for a paper and pencil to take down a number.

Ginger administered whack number two, followed with a 'be nice' comment.

She gave me a number to call her so's I telephoned from the courthouse.

Darkyn did a number on her before sending her back, Gabriel said.

He'd never set a number, but right now two hardly seemed enough.

Dr. Worthington took responsibility for the clinic and Carmen found the accountant's number in the desk drawer.

He should have no trouble figuring out where he lived, worked or what his telephone number was.

She gave them her sister's address and telephone number and promised to keep in touch.

You have my cell number?

There was no handle on the outside of the door she'd just walked through, no number on the building.

You keep his number on the fridge.

She glanced around, abruptly aware of the number of looks she received.

Her eyes went to the number she wrote on her hand each morning.

She squeezed her hand closed to hide the number and faced the forest, waiting for him to reappear.

She reviewed the last several days, taking in the swelling number of enemies in the skies and on the ground.

When she told them the valuable stuff I had, they asked for my telephone number.

Jerome took him to a number of doctors but nothing seemed to help.

Dean explained to his wife the number of times in his police career he'd seen battered women refuse to follow through when confronted by their abusive mate.

Dean chatted with a number of the merchants of the few still-open businesses he passed.

There were a number of different routes, but the Deans chose the two-mile town site loop, a nearly flat path that first traversed a scented pine forest and then opened to a spectacular view of the surrounding mountains.

The two men first boarded chair lift number ten and ten and a half minutes later were eighteen hundred feet higher than Fred and Donnie, at nearly eleven thousand feet elevation.

Just as batch number three of muffins was ready, Effie stuck her head in the kitchen, looking over her shoulder, even more nervously than usual.

This here's the phone number of the current muck amuck.

It seems there's some confusion on how son number one died.

Piles of gear were stacked about while partners called out to those below, fed line and encouragement, while others watched, a number with anxious looks on their reddened faces as they looked downward.

Crumpled in the waste paper basket was a small piece of white paper with a telephone number.

It began with the digits 3-2-5, indicative of a Ouray number.

Dean recognized the rest of the number as belonging to Janet O'Brien.

While she denied any knowledge of her phone number being in Shipton's room, Dean questioned if she was telling the truth.

Dean telephoned Cynthia's mother's number and his wife answered on the first ring.

You're sure number one with them State guys.

He hastily dialed Cynthia's mother's number, as Fred stood guard at the slightly opened door.

When he finished eating, he called the Indiana number, letting the phone ring a dozen times.

I gave you the phone number when you asked for it, didn't I?

They were all gathered, either in Edith's room or nearby in the hall—Corday, Fitzgerald and a number of uniforms who seemed to come and go.

When the Deans tried to buy her even a minimal number of new items, she became embarrassed and pensive, no doubt a result of Janet's don't-rock-the-boat philosophy.

Fred picked up a pair of children's cross country skies from an ad in the paper and the group spent a number of after school afternoons on Red Mountain utilizing the free trails at Ironton.

There were any number of hints.

I'll get you the number.

Okay, let me give you my cell number.

Maybe you could just give me her cell number.

You have his number, don't you?

I heard she has a number fourteen record.

Without waiting for a response, she raced to the house and dialed Katie's number with shaking hands.

Have you got a number stamped on every girl in the county?

Not only was there a traitor at the Peak, but there were an untold number of insurgents lying in wait.

She may even be able to track Elise with them, since she knew her ID number.

Today she was absent, home nursing child number five, down with a spring fever, or just plain Spring Fever.

It might be a number of days before they find him.

His only phone message sounded like the same person who had telephoned the house the night before—again leaving neither name nor number.

Rita would convey the message to Jonathan Winston as well allowing Dean to temporarily duck having to explain to the FBI why he played cowboy and lost the tail instead of getting the plate number.

Fred managed to get the license number by walking around the block and returning to the house from the rear.

I don't suppose Mrs. Glass got a license number?

He dug change out of his bike bag and dialed his number but he might as well have saved his time.

When Snow stepped in on disc number three, he knew that too— the date of the jam, who was on vibes, snares and keyboard.

How would Nota get Mrs. Glass's number or even know Cleary even existed?

Mrs. Glass's number was on the telephone pad.

I called the number in the ad and got his wife.

He dialed the number but no one answered.

Dean tried Cece Baldwin's number several more times without success.

Fred had phoned a number of places in Rollins and Hays, Kansas the previous day but found no information on the disposal of the motor home.

The ad was just a box at the paper and no phone number.

Suit number two quickly yelled, It's all right.

The license plate had been removed but Dean had a tracer placed on the vehicle identification number, a procedure that would take a couple of days.

Ms. Nightingale murmured a room number and motioned down a hall crowded with bodies like the day after Gettysburg while white-coated figures strolled among the moaning, clip boards in hand With wide-eyed Fred following behind, Dean ran the gauntlet until he found the room, a small office packed with five men and a lot of smoke, three of them in Philadelphia Police uniforms.

I spotted the number right away and as soon as I saw him I knew danged well it wasn't Byrne.

He didn't know a name or a number but the fellow had black hair.

If he's still in this here tour, at least now we got a number.

I just looked at that phone number you called—Brunel's number—when I was putting it in my notes.

A part of him kept asking why he was doing this—not the bik­ing but chasing after a ghost wearing number 888 who was proba­bly hundreds of miles away.

Who really cared who wore number 888 anyhow?

No sign of number 888, whoever he is?

But it was enough to catch the rider's number before the jacket cov­ered it.

Considering the number of times she had pushed his hands away, it must be her breasts.

The earrings were beautiful, though diamonds weren't her number one choice of gems.

It was mostly used by deer, but she had been up it a number of times with her father.

Here, the pin number is 1542.

The bookkeeper's name and number are in the top right drawer of my desk.

Pulling out her phone, she dialed his number.

He grabbed the phone off the floor and dialed a number.

I gave him your cell phone number.

What was even more surprising was the number of people she didn't recognize.

Fortunately Morino saw the ad for Apple Hors Devours in the local paper and recognized Alfonso's cell phone number before they made their first sale.

Then again, look at the number of people in the world who are killed every year by mosquitoes.

She was referred through several people and finally given a number.

She dialed the number and waited while the phone rang.

What's the number at your cabin?

Don't you have a number where I can reach you in an emergency?

Would you mind if I gave this number to my Father for emergency use only?

Dad, this phone is inside a little country store and the lady that works here said it would be all right to give you this number.

She gave him the number and he repeated it back to her.

Noting the page number, she snapped the book shut and turned off the light.

Retrieving her book from the bedroom, she leafed through it to the page number she had memorized.

You see houses a hundred years old standing in areas where tornadoes occur a number of times a year.

When I couldn't contact you by calling the number you gave him, he suggested I come out and check on you.

Maybe he would throw it away, but if he had second thoughts, at least he had her telephone number now.

All I accomplished was becoming a number one ass.

I wrote my number on the note and when you didn't call, I thought you were through with me.

I shouldn't have left without talking to you, but I'm a number one chicken and I wanted to get out ahead of that storm.

I know where you work, your schedules, the plate number of your ten-year-old Hyundai.

It's so obvious why this is the number one show right now.

Rule number two claimed he took a different woman to bed every night.

Sloping shoulders, huge biceps, wide chest, lean abdomen … Now she understood rule number three and why it had the most exclamation points.

Rule number three does, though.

Jonny sent another note, this one detailing the activities of Ashley's day down to the license plate number of the friend Ashley ditched school to meet.

I'll give you my cell number.

She pulled Jonny's number from the fridge but hesitated, still not certain what to tell him.

Seeing Ashley's number, she answered.

Jule was right; he owned nothing else, but the number of people who knew about the gem was limited to the Originals and Sofi.

Pick a number between one and forty.

She was almost number seven.

She will be number seven in about two minutes.

Of course, she no longer had anyone to contact, now that Xander was out to make her number seven.

Formerly giraffes were found in large herds, but persecution has reduced their number and led to their extermination from many districts.

Occasionally two calves are produced at a birth, although the normal number is one.

He maintained that, under varying conditions, two substances could combine in an indefinitely large number of different ratios, that there could in fact be a continuous variation in the combining ratio.

In each of a number of experiments he found that the weight of the silver iodide did not differ by one twenty-thousandth of the whole from the sum of the weights of the silver and the iodine used.

One section of the law expresses the fact that the weights of two substances, not necessarily elements, that are equivalent in one reaction, are often found to be equivalent in a number of other reactions.

It is evident that this is practicable if the number and kind of atoms contained in the molecule of a compound can be determined.

The symbols of compounds become very concise, as the number of atoms of one kind in a molecule can be expressed by a sub-index.

These natural philosophers suggested that equal volumes of all gaseous substances must contain, at the same temperature and pressure, the same number of molecules.

A large number of cobalt compounds are known, of which the empirical composition represents them as salts of cobalt to which one or more molecules of ammonia have been added.

He collaborated with his father in the great edition of Saadia and the edition of Abu-1Walid, and also produced a number of important editions of other Arabic writers.

There are a number of small manufacturing industries in Cuzco, including the manufacture of cotton and woollen fabrics, leather, beer, embroidery and articles of gold and silver.

He died in 894, after which date little is known of Northumbrian history for a number of years.

The statutes, not drawn up until the 2nd of April 1443, raised the number of the college to forty.

For while at New College only twenty out of seventy fellows were to study law instead of arts, philosophy and theology, at All Souls College sixteen were to be " jurists " and only twenty-four " artists "; and while at New College there were ten chaplains and three clerks necessarily, at All Souls the number was not defined but left optional; so that there are now only one chaplain and four bible clerks.

These monotonous writings, all in Dutch, flowed in a continual stream from 1524 (though none is extant before 1529) and amounted to over 200 in number.

Hansen counted the number of yeast cells suspended in a drop of liquid diluted with sterilized water.

A number of esters are also produced.

Astorga has been the see of a bishop since the 3rd century, and was formerly known as the City of Priests, from the number of ecclesiastics resident within its walls.

The ovary has many cavities with a large number of ovules attached to its walls, and is surmounted by a flat stigma of many radiating rows as in a poppy.

On the 3rd of July 1517 he published the names of thirty-one new cardinals, a number almost unprecedented in the history of the papacy.

The Venetian ambassador Gradenigo estimated the paying number of offices on Leo's death at 2150, with a capital value of nearly 3,000,000 ducats and a yearly income of 328,000 ducats.

He translated into Hebrew a large number of Arabic books (including the Arabic form of Euclid).

Conceive a beam of plane polarized light to move among a number of particles, all small compared with any of the wavelengths.

If we consider a number of particles which all lie upon a primary ray, we see that the phases of the secondary vibrations which issue along this line are all the same.

If AP =p, the element of volume is dx2xpdp, and the number A of particles to be found in it is deduced by the introduction of the factor n.

The molar teeth are six in number on each side, increasing in size from before backwards, and, as in the elephants, with a horizontal succession, the anterior teeth being lost before the full development of the posterior ones, which gradually move forward, taking the place of those that are destroyed by wear.

Certain of the molar teeth of the middle of the series in both elephants and mastodons have the same number of principal ridges; those in front having fewer, and those behind a greater number.

The number of spiracles is greatly reduced; in the adult a pair is present on the mesothorax, sometimes also a pair on the metathorax, and there is always a pair on the first and another pair on the eighth abdominal segment.

After joining the "Giovine Italia" he entered the Sardinian navy, and, with a number of companions on board the frigate "Euridice," plotted to seize the vessel and occupy the arsenal of Genoa at the moment when Mazzini's Savoy expedition should enter Piedmont.

Allied to the pine-grosbeak are a number of species of smaller size, but its equals in beauty of plumage.'

A large number of cotton mills furnish the chief source of industry; printing, dyeing and bleaching of cotton and calico, spinning and weaving machine making, iron and steel works, and collieries in the neighbourhood, are also important.

The number rapidly increased, and in 1851 there were 66 cotton mills with 860,000 throstle spindles at work.

The results for the Sonnblick are derived from a comparatively small number of days in August and September.

The following are samples from a number of days' results, given in le Cadet's book.

A diminution in the number of positive ions would thus naturally be accompanied by a rise in potential gradient.

In the steady state the number, n, of ions of either sign per cc. is given by n=-Vg/a, and so is independent of the pressure or the height.

The number of thunderstorm days is probably a less exact measure of the relative intensity of thunderstorms than statistics as to the number of persons killed annually by lightning per million of the population.

The conspicuous maximum in 1901 and great drop in 1902 in Hungary are also shown by the statistics as to the number of days of thunder.

This number at the average station of the country fell from 38.4 in 1901 to 23.1 in 1902.

The number of scholars was largely increased by an election of 25 new ones on the 26th of September 1444, the income being then 946, of which the king contributed £120 and Waynflete or more than half his stipend of X30 a year.

These islands are remarkable for a number of architectural remains of a very early date.

There are seven other similar structures in the group. Inishmore also bears the name of Aran-na-naomh, Aran-of-the-Saints, from the number of religious recluses who took up their abode in it, and gave a celebrity to the holy wells, altars and shrines, to which many are still attracted.

Propertius had a large number of friends and acquaintances, chiefly literary, belonging to the circle of Maecenas.

An elaborate symmetry is observable in the construction of many of his elegies, and this has tempted critics to divide a number of them into strophes.

It is now worn in a considerable number of churches not only by the clergy but by acolytes and servers at the Communion.

The thirteen lords were assisted by twelve other inhabitants chosen by the freeholders, and when the number of lords was reduced to six, seven others were chosen from the assistants.

These include the mutual distances of some of the stars in the Pleiades, a few observations of the apparent diameter of the sun, others of the distance of the moon from neighbouring stars, and a great number of measurements of the diameter of the moon.

The total number of revolutions is read off by a scale attached to the side of the box, but not seen in the figure.

The method of counting the total number of revolutions gives more friction and is less convenient than Repsolds', and no provision seems to be made for illuminating the micrometer head in the practical and convenient plan adopted by Repsolds.

For very refined work, however, the irregularities in the reproduction of the reseau may be studied by comparing the measures of the original reseau with the mean of corresponding measures of a number of photographed copies of it.

Collier was prepared to meet any number of antagonists, and defended himself in numerous tracts.

They contain a considerable number of Latin words, which have remained unchanged.

Two-fifths of the land belongs to the state, and two-fifths more to the various communes; the remaining fifth is minutely subdivided among a large number of small proprietors, many of whom have been expropriated from inability to pay the taxes, which, considering the low value of the land, are too heavy; while the state is unable to let a large proportion of its lands.

The number of monastic institutions in the island is very small.

The island contains a very large number of important prehistoric monuments.

The majority perhaps of the nuraghi of Sardinia present this simple type; but a very large number, and, among them, those best preserved, have considerable additions.

A number of Roman towns are known to us.

On the deposition of Charles the Fat in 887 he was excluded from the throne by his youth; but during the reign of Odo, who had succeeded Charles, he succeeded in gaining the recognition of a certain number of notables and in securing his coronation at Reims on the 28th of January 893.

Ecclesiastical immunities, such as reservation of the criminal cases of the clergy, exemption from military service and other privileges, are expressly maintained in a certain number of pacts.

In the 1 9th century we find a long series of concordats, of which a good number are still in force.

The industry is now a highly specialized one and comprises a large number of operations performed by separate hands.

Then Chalier became the orator and leader of the Jacobins of Lyons, and induced the other revolutionary clubs and the commune of his city to arrest a great number of Royalists in the night of the 5th and 6th of February 1793.

The collegiate church (Stiftskirche) dates from about 1340, and contains a number of fine ducal monuments.

It is the see of a bishop, the seat of the district prefecture and a tribunal, and the headquarters of the territorial militia corps, having besides a large number of regular troops in garrison.

In its park there are a great number of stags and wild boars.

From a sick-bed, from which he never rose, he conducted this work with surprising energy, and there composed those poems, too few in number, but immortal in the English language, such as the "Song of the Shirt" (which appeared anonymously in the Christmas number of Punch, 1843), the "Bridge of Sighs" and the "Song of the Labourer," which seized the deep human interests of the time, and transported them from the ground of social philosophy into the loftier domain of the imagination.

Hamilton, "the measurement of a number of tails of the [European] wild cat and of the domestic cat gives a range between 11 in.

He wrote in this connexion a number of articles collected in 1887 under the title Treu and Frei.

We learn much as to these magistrates from the large number of inscriptions that have been found (over 2000 in Ostia and Portus taken together) and also as to the cults.

Later we find the worship of Isis and of Cybele,the latter being especially flourishing, with large corporations of dendrophori (priests who carried branches of trees in procession) and cannofori (basketcarriers); the worship of Mithras, too, had a large number of followers.

No traces of Jewish worship have been found at Ostia, but at Portus a considerable number of Jewish inscriptions in Greek have come to light.

A large number of hybrids exist in cultivation.

The books give a number of their "cities" reduced by Alexander - walled mountain villages which can in some cases be identified more or less certainly with places where the clans are established to-day.

The armature consists of a bony case, partly composed of solid buckler-like plates, and partly of movable transverse bands, the latter differing in number with the species, and giving to the body a considerable degree of flexibility.

He ultimately married Isabella, after the death of John, and had by her a number of sons, half-brothers of Henry III.

The large number of Slavonic local names in Albania, even in districts where no trace of a Slavonic population exists, bears witness to the extensive Servian and Bulgarian immigrations in the early middle ages, but the original inhabitants gradually ousted or assimilated the invaders.

A large number still speak the Albanian language; many of the older men, and a considerable proportion of the women, even in the neighbourhood of Athens, are ignorant of Greek.

The groundwork, so far as it can be ascertained, and the grammar are Indo-European, but a large number of words have been borrowed from the Latin or Italian and Greek, and it is not always easy to decide whether the mutilated and curtailed forms now in use represent adopted words or belong to the original vocabulary.

Horsham sent two representatives to parliament from 1295 until 1832, when the number was reduced to one.

The Lingayats number 436,968, or 46% of the Hindu population; they worship the symbol of Siva, and males and females both carry this emblem about their person in a silver case.

They therefore requested him to call a "national synod of the bishopsof the Anglican Church at home and abroad," to meet under his leadership. After consulting both houses of the Convocation of Canterbury, Archbishop Longley assented, and convened all the bishops of the Anglican Communion (then 144 in number) to meet at Lambeth in 1867.

In 1875 a number of Russian Mennonites (descendants of the Anabaptists of the Reformation) came to the r.

There are a number of methods available for adoption in the heating of buildings, but it is a matter of considerable difficulty to suit the method of warming to the class of building to be warmed.

They usually take the form of cast iron open stoves fitted with a number of Bunsen burners which heat perforated lumps of asbestos.

To regulate the heat it is necessary either to instal a number of small radiators or to divide the radiators into sections, each section controlled by distinct valves; steam may then be admitted to all the sections of the radiator or to any less number of sections as desired.

As to the number and native countries of the Sibyls much diversity of opinion prevailed.

This was done accordingly, the number of members of the committee being, however, doubled.

It has been asserted (by Sir Thomas Urquhart) that the piece of artillery was actually tried upon a plain in Scotland with complete success, a number of sheep and cattle being destroyed.

The second method, which he calls the "Promptuarium Multiplicationis" on account of its being the most expeditious of all for the performance of multiplications, involves the use of a number of lamellae or little plates of metal disposed in a box.

Of course two sets of rods may be used, and by their means we may multiply every number less than 111,111,111 and so on.

In April 1859 appeared the first number of The Rocky Mountain News.

The number of decuriones varied in different towns, but was usually ioo.

The synod is a provincial council which consists of the ministers and representative elders from all the congregations within a specified number of presbyteries, in the same way as the presbytery is representative of a specified number of congregations.

Under the persecution, a large number were killed, and between four and five millions of Protestants left the country.

The number summoned was 151, viz.

From the beginning of the 18th century the greater number of the Presbyterian congregations became practically independent in polity and Unitarian in doctrine.

Great attention is given to the education of the ministry, a considerable number of whom, in recent years, have taken arts degrees at Oxford and Cambridge.

The synod increased the number of its churches by a large accession from New York and from New Jersey, where there had been large Presbyterian settlements.

Internally it is a polygon of sixteen unequal sides, and the cupola is supported by sixteen ribs, springing from the same number of columns.

Of birds the number of species greatly exceeds that of the mammals, including the rhea of the pampas and condor of the Andes, and the tiny, brilliant-hued humming-birds of the tropical North.

The number of newspapers published is large, especially in Buenos Aires, where in 1902 the total, including sundry periodicals, was 183.

In 1878 the number of cattle was 12,000,000; of sheep, 65,000,000; and of horses, 4,000,000; in 1899 the numbers were - cattle, 25,000,000; sheep, 89,000,000; and horses, about 4,500,000.

The results of these first experiments were not encouraging, owing mainly to the poor class of animals, but the exporters persevered, and the business steadily grew in value and importance, until in 1898 the number of live cattle shipped was 359,296, which then decreased to 119,189 in 1901, because of the foot-and-mouth disease.

In 1892 the number of live sheep shipped for foreign ports was 40,000; in 1898 the export reached a total of 577,813, which in 1901 fell off to 25,746.

Their leader, Juan Diaz de Solis, landing incautiously in 1516 on the north coast with a few attendants to parley with a body of Charrua Indians, was suddenly attacked by them and was killed, together with a number of his followers.

Thus at the opening of the 17th century, after many adventurous efforts, and the expenditure of many lives and much treasure, the Spaniards found themselves securely established on the river Plate, and had planted a number of centres of trade and colonization in the interior.

The carrying out of Federalist principles led, however, to the formation in the republic of a number of quasiindependent military states, and Dorrego only ruled in Buenos Aires.

A number of officers of the army and navy agreed to lend assistance to a revolutionary outbreak, and towards the end of July 1893 matters came to a head.

Farther to the north a number of small rivers, the chief of which is the Svre Niortaise, drain the coast region to the south of the plateau of Gtine.

The coasts present a number of maritime inlets, forming inland bays, which communicate with the sea by channels of greater or less width.

Calvados the former was 904,000, as against 857,000 in the Cantal latter year, the diminution being acconipanied by Charente a decrease in the annual number of deaths.