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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
In 1906 the number of foreigners in France was 1,009,415
Below is a list of the 315,993 departments in which the number of women to every 012 460
The number of Protestants may be estimated at about 600,000 and the Jews at about 70,000.
The greatest number of Jews is to be found at Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux, while the departments of the centre and of the south along the range of the Cvennes, where Calvinism flourishes, are the principal Protestant localities, Nimes being the most important centre.
The state controls its cultivation, which is allowed only in a limited number of departments.
The following table shows the number of live stock in the country at intervals of ten years since 1885.
The two last classes number over 400,000 (1903), but the quantity of alcohol distilled by them is small.
In 1902 the number of men employed in the home fisheries was 144,000 and the number of vessels 25,481 (tonnage 127,000); in the deep-sea fisheries 10,500 men and 450 vessels (tonnage 51,000) were employed.
The contract for building the railway was put in the hands of Thomas Brassey; English navvies were largely employed on the work, and a number of English engine-drivers were employed when traffic was begun in 1843.
In 1878 it agreed to spend 20,000,000 in purchasing and completing a number of these lines, some of which were handed over to the great companies, while others were retained in the hands of the government, forming the system known as the Chemins de Fer de lEtat.
The chief local bodies concerned with commerce and industry are the chambres de commerce and the chambres consultatives darts et manufactures, the members of which are elected from their own number by the traders and industrialists of a certain standing.
The increase in the tonnage of sailing vessels, which in other countries tends to decline, was due to the bounties voted by parliament to its merchant sailing fleet with the view of increasing the number of skilled seamen.
To secure election a candidate must at the first voting poll an absolute majority and a number of votes equal to one-fourth of the number of electors.
The court consists of a president, one or more vice-presidents and a variable number of judges.
The full number of persons liable to be called upon for military service and engaged in such service is calculated (1908) as 4,800,000, of whom 1,350,000 of the active army and the younger classes of army reserve would constitute the field armies set on foot at the outbreak of war.
The officers of the army are obtained partly from the oldestablished military schools, partly from the ranks of the noncommissioned officers, the proportion of the latter being about one-third of the total number of officers.
The total number of men who had re-enlisted stood in 1903 at 8594.
The number of the inmates is decreasing; but the institution is an expensive one.
Of the coast defences the principal are Toulon, Antibes, Rochefort, Lorient, Brest, Olron, La Rochelle, BelleIsle, Cherbourg,St-Malo, Havre, Calais, Gravelines and Dunkirk A number of the older fortresses, dating for the most part from Louis XIV.s time, are still in existence, but are no longer of military importance.
The naval prefect is assisted by a rearadmiral as chief of the staff (except at Lorient and Rochefort, where the office is filled by a captain), and a certain number of other officers, the special functions of the chief of the staff having relation principally to the efficien.cy and personnel of the fleet, while the major-general, who is usually a rear-admiral, is concerned chiefly with the materiel.
As to the number of vessels, which fluctuates from month to month, little can be said that is wholly accurate at any given moment, but, very roughly, the French navy in 1909 included 25 battleships, 7 coast defence ironclads, 19 armoured cruisers, 36 protected cruisers, 22 s1oops, gunboats, &c., 45 destroyers, 319 torpedo boats, 71 submersibles and submarines and 8 auxiliary cruisers.
If the number of inhabitants exceed 500, the commune must also provide a special school for girls, unless the Departmental Council authorizes it to substitute a mixed school.
Besides the faculties there are a number of institutions, both state-supported and private, giving higher instruction of various special kinds.
The most important free institution in this class is the cole des Sciences Politiques, which prepares pupils for the civil services and teaches a great number of political subjects, connected with France and foreign countries, not included in the state programmes.
The realization of the fact that the value to France of her colonies was mainly commercial, led at length to the abandonment of the attempt to impose on a great number of diverse peoples—some possessing (as in Indo-China and parts of West Africa) ancient and highly complex civilizations—French laws, habits of mind, tastes and manners.
The colonial minister is assisted by a number of organizations of which the most important is the superior council of the colonies (created by decree in 1883), an advisory body which inclUdes the senators and deputies elected by the colonies, and delegates elected by the universal suffrage of all citizens in the colonies and protectorates which do not return members to parliament.
A large number of other works by members and pupils of the same family, but unsigned, exist in Rome.
His principal fault was a want of tenacity and resolution; his tendency to unguarded language undoubtedly increased the number of his enemies.
A number of his letters from France are in the foreign state papers.
He carried out a number of magnetic investigations which resulted in the discovery of many interesting phenomena, some of which have been rediscovered by others; they related among other things to the effect of mechanical strain on the magnetic properties of the magnetic metals, to the relation between the chemical composition of compound bodies and their magnetic properties, and to a curious parallelism between the laws of torsion and of magnetism.
The electoral districts so formed are expected to be equal in proportion to the number of inhabitants; but this method has led to much abuse in the past, through the making of unequal districts for partisan purposes.
The number of main craters may be about twenty-five, but there are very many small eruptive cones on the flanks of the old volcanoes.
Equally indecisive is the further exploration as to evidence for the opinion held by other naturalists that the endemic species of the different islands have resulted from subsidences, through volcanic action, which have reduced one large island mass into a number of islets, wherein the separated species became differentiated during their isolation.
As the name implies, the ports originally constituting the body were only five in number - Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich; but to these were afterwards added the "ancient towns" of Winchelsea and Rye with the same privileges, and a good many other places, both corporate and non-corporate, which, with the title of limb or member, held a subordinate position.
The ordinary business of the ports was conducted in two courts known respectively as the court of brotherhood and the court of brotherhood and guestling, - the former being composed of the mayors of the seven principal towns and a number of jurats and freemen from each, and the latter including in addition the mayors, bailiffs and other representatives of the corporate members.
After the death of Cleomenes and the refusal of the Athenians to restore the hostages to Leotychides, the Aeginetans retaliated by seizing a number of Athenians at a festival at Sunium.
Among the public edifices are the capitol, which occupies a whole square, the university, of nearly equal size, the cathedral, pantheon, masonic temple (built by the state in the spendthrift days of Guzman Blanco), national library, opera-house, and a number of large churches.
Lastly the number of trunk-vertebrae is always nineteen, while there are generally thirteen pairs of ribs.
As regards the teeth, in all cases except the wombats the number of upper incisors differs from that of the corresponding lower teeth.
The pouch is incomplete, with two lateral folds, and the number of teats six.
From the number of its cheek-teeth, the banded ant-eater has been regarded as related to some of the primitive Jurassic mammals; but this view is disputed by Mr Bensley, who regards this multiplicity of teeth as a degenerate feature.
With the exception of the aberrant long-snouted phalanger, the members of the family Phalangeridae have the normal number of functional incisors, in addition to which there may be one or two rudimentary pairs in the lower jaw.
All the other teeth are simple, conical, minute and placed at considerable and irregular intervals apart in the jaws, the number appearing to vary in different individuals and even on different sides of the jaw of the same indi viduals.
Filhol, the fossils themselves represent two genera, Peratherium, containing the greater part of the species, about twenty in number, and Amphiperatherium, with three species only.
Besides these interesting European fossils, a certain number of didelphian bones have been found in the caves of Brazil, but these are either closely allied to or identical with the species now living in the same region.
It will be observed from the figures of the lower jaws, which are in most cases the only parts known, that in many instances the number of cheek-teeth exceeds that found in modern marsupials except Myrmecobius.
Winge, a large number of these creatures are primitive monotremes.
A number of the principal inhabitants were carried captive to Babylon, and Jerusalem was reduced to the position of an insignificant town.
Nehemiah mentions a number of places on the eastern hill, including the tomb of David, the positions of which cannot with our present knowledge be fixed with any certainty.
After the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, a considerable number of Jews returned to the city, but we know practically nothing of its history for more than a century until, in 332 B.C., Alexander the Great conquered Syria.
In 614 Chosroes II., the king of Persia, captured Jerusalem, devastated many of the buildings, and massacred a great number of the inhabitants.
Especially striking are the huge pillars, of which a number still stand erect.
Ctesias mentions further, with regard to a number of Persians kings, either that their remains were brought " to the Persians," or that they died there.'
There are a grammar school, a free school and a number of charities.
In 1479, after receiving a number of minor ecclesiastical promotions, he was elected Bishop of Ely.
Various adjustments and modifications still continue, and a number of scattered details may indicate that internal rivalries made themselves felt.
The enormous number of dated documents has induced some scholars to attempt a statistical research into the observance of the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th and 19th days of the months as Sabbaths.
If the Sabbath involved abstention from all such business as recorded in dated documents and always fell on these days, then the 7th, &c., should show a marked falling off in the number of dated documents.
Further, if the Sabbaths fell on each 7th day through the year, any indication by dated documents of a falling off in the number of transactions on the 7th day of the month must obviously be completely disguised.
As most of the records appealed to are from temple archives, it may be expected that the Sabbath days would show an increased number of records.
Besides those mentioned, there are a number of smaller rivers discharging on the north coast, and on the west shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria the Roper river discharges itself into Limmen Bight.
The rainfall of Melbourne averages 25.58 in., the mean number of rainy days being 131.
The opossums of America are marsupials, though not showing anomalies as great as kangaroos and bandicoots (in their feet), and Myrmecobius (in the number of teeth).
The birds of Australia in their number and variety of species may be deemed some compensation for its poverty of mammals; yet it will not stand comparison in this respect with regions of Africa and South America in the same latitudes.
This is due in part to the different physical conditions there prevailing and in part to the invasion of the north-eastern portion of the continent by a number of plants characteristically Melanesian.
In South Australia and the Northern Territory a large number are outside the bounds of settlement, and it is probable that they are as numerous there as in Queensland.
The census of Western Australia included only those aborigines in the employment of the colonists; and as a large part of this, the greatest of the Australian states, is as yet unexplored, it may be presumed that the aborigines enumerated were very far short of the whole number of persons of that race in the state.
Besides state schools there were 2145 private schools, with 7825 teachers and 137,000 scholars, the average number of scholars in attendance being 120,000.
The number of students attending lectures is about 2500 and the annual income a little over £ioo,000.
Of late years whaling has again attracted attention, and a small number of vessels prosecute the industry during the season.
Queensland's annual output is between 750,000 and 800,000 oz.; the number of men engaged in goldmining is io,000.
A considerable number of men are engaged in the various states on alluvial fields, in hydraulic sluicing, and dredging is now adopted for the winning of gold in river deposits.
The low quotations which ruled for a number Copper of years had a depressing effect upon the industry, and many mines once profitably worked were temporarily closed, but in 1906 there was a general revival.
For a number of years, however, the mine has been suffered to remain untouched, as the deposits originally worked were found to be depleted.
The number of vessels engaged in the over-sea trade of Australia in 1905 was 2112, viz.
For the number " five " a word meaning " many " was employed.
The number and diversity of separate languages is bewildering.
Yet the Australian is capable of strong affections, and the blind (of whom there have always been a great number) are cared for, and are often the best fed in a tribe.
Unlike the American Indians, who supposed Columbus and his crew to be supernatural beings, and their ships in some way endowed with life, and were thrown into convulsions of terror by the first discharge of firearms which they witnessed, these Australians were neither excited to wonder by the ship nor overawed by the superior number and unknown weapons of the strangers.
There was an almost entire cessation of building, and a large number of houses in the chief cities remained untenanted, the occupants moving to lodgings and more than one family living in a single house.
In fact, everywhere the demand for goods, especially of those for domestic consumption, fell away; and there was a reduction in the average number of persons employed in the manufacturing industries to the extent of more than 20%.
The fear was as to whether the statutory number of 80,000 votes necessary for the acceptance of the bill would be reached.
In New South Wales and Queensland there were still a large number of persons opposed to the measure, which was nevertheless carried in both colonies.
The Senate was to consist of the same number of members (not less than six) for each state, the term of service being six years, but subject to an arrangement that half the number would retire every three years.
The Senate would choose its own president, and the House of Representatives its speaker; each house would make its own rules of procedure; in each, one-third of the number of members would form a quorum; the members of each must take oath, or make affirmation of allegiance; and all alike would receive an allowance of £400 a year.
Riotous scenes occurred both in Sydney and on the coal-fields, and a large number of special constables were sworn in by the government.
Very few of the members who refused to take the pledge were returnca, and the adherents of the united party were able to accomplish more with their reduced number than under the old conditions.
This report led to the passing of a number of acts which, proving ineffectual, were followed by the Factories and Shops Act of 1896, passed by the ministry of Mr (afterwards Sir Alexander) Peacock.
As one result of the strike of 1890 a movement was set afoot by a number of enthusiasts, more visionary than practical, that has resulted in a measure of more or less disaster.
The award of the court is thus the equivalent of the determination of a special board in Victoria, and deals with the same questions, the most important of which are the minimum rates of wages and the number of working hours per week.
The battle of Lund was, relatively to the number engaged, one of the bloodiest engagements of modern times.
The so-called Great Palace consists of a group of detached buildings, apparently ten in number, standing on two platforms of different elevations.
There are a number of other barracks.
Given any propositions involving any number of terms, Boole showed how, by the purely symbolic treatment of the premises, to draw any conclusion logically contained in those premises.
Its remoteness from the control of the authority of the German and French kings, together with its inaccessibility, gave special facilities in Lower Lorraine to the growth of a number of practically independent feudal states forming a group or system apart.
Thus grew up a number of municipalities - practically self-governing republics - semiindependent feudatories in the feudal state.
They had united under their sway a number of provinces with different histories and institutions and speaking different languages, and their aim was to centralize the government.
Two burning questions at the outset confronted Margaret and Granvelle - the question of the new bishoprics and the question of the presence in the Netherlands of a number of Spanish troops.
In 1569 William in his capacity as sovereign prince of Orange issued letters-of-marque to a number of vessels to prey upon the Spanish commerce in the narrow seas.
In the astral-theological system he is represented by the number 30, and the planet Venus as his daughter by the number 15.
The number 30 stands obviously in connexion with the thirty days as the average extent of his course until he stands again in conjunction with the sun.
Factories for cleaning and baling raw cotton and for extracting cotton oil were set up, and employed a large number of people, mostly in Ferghana.
The lordship remained in the marches till the Act of Union 1536, when it was grouped with a number of others so as to form the shire of Brecknock.
The number of rainy days throughout the peninsula varies from 160 to over 200 in each year, but violent gusts of wind, called " Sumatras," accompanied by a heavy downpour of short duration, are more common than persistent rain.
The Malay population of the peninsula, including immigrants from the eastern archipelago, number some 750,000 to Soo,000, while the Tamils and other natives of India number about ioo,000, the aboriginal natives of the peninsula perhaps 20,000, Europeans and Americans about 6500, and Eurasians about 9000.
They consist of a number of circular or rectangular pits sunk from the cap of a hill, and going down to a depth of in some cases as much as 120 ft., until in fact the miners have been stopped by being unable to cope with the quantity of water made when the level of the valley was reached.
Siqueira's expedition ended in failure, owing partly to the aggressive attitude of the Portuguese, partly to the very justifiable suspicions of the Malays, and he was presently forced to destroy one of his vessels, to leave a number of his men in captivity, and to sail direct for Portugal.
There are also a large number of small lakes and ponds lying wholly within the state.
The capital invested in fisheries in 1902 was $9417, and the number of men employed, 145.
Of 147,223 communicants of all churches in 1906, the largest number, 82,272, were Roman Catholics, 22,109 were Congregationalists, 17,471 Methodist Episcopalians, 8450 Baptists, 1501 Free Baptists and 5278 Protestant Episcopalians.
The average number of weeks in the "legal schools" (about 95% of the public schools) was 32 weeks in 1907-1908.
Among these are to be found a singularly large number of both active and inactive volcanoes, including the well-known Salak and Gede in the north, and bunched together at the eastern end the Chikorai, Papandayan, Wayang, Malabar, Guntur, &c., ranging from 6000 to 10,000 ft.
The male flowers are in small clusters on the usually slender and pendent stalk, forming an interrupted catkin; the stamens vary in number, usually six to twelve.
The multitude of species and the many intermediate forms render their exact limitation difficult, but those presenting sufficiently marked characters to justify specific rank probably approach 300 in number.
The mineral springs, which belong to the adjoining abbey of Tepl, are eight in number, and are used both for bathing and drinking, except the Marienquelle, which is used only for bathing.
They number twenty, according to Japanese investigations, and have a coast-line of 174.65 m.
Mr Robertson catalogues a number of valuable timbers that are obtained there, among them being Tremana, cedar, rose-wood, iron-wood (red and white), box-wood, sandal and white oak.
The Atlantic Ocean contains a relatively small number of islands.
He was the author of a number of works, of which the most notable besides Ocean to Ocean are, Advantages of Imperial Federation (1889), Our National Objects and Aims (1890), Religions of the World in Relation to Christianity (1894) and volumes of sermons and lectures.
The weight of this ideal gold dollar would be adjusted at intervals in accordance with its power to purchase commodities as shown by the " index number " of prices.
On the other hand it is hardly likely that all his comedies (which greatly exceeded in number the extant twenty) were produced during the last twenty years of his life.
The increase in the number of thegns produced in time a subdivision of the order.
Most of the movable paintings have since 1863 been collected in the Pinacoteca Vannucci, established in the Palazzo del Municipio; besides a considerable number of pieces by Perugino, there are specimens of Niccolo Alunno, Bonfigli, Pinturicchio, &c. A very interesting and important exhibition of Umbrian art was held here in 1907.
Now, we know that the number of electrochemical equivalents electrolysed is proportional to the whole amount of electricity which passed through the circuit, and the product of this by the electromotive force of the battery is the work done by the latter, so that in this case also Joule showed that the heat generated was proportional to the work done.
Clerk Maxwell supposed two compartments, A and B, to be filled with gas at the same temperature, and to be separated by an ideal, infinitely thin partition containing a number of exceedingly small trap-doors, each of which could be opened or closed without any expenditure of energy.
The number of cells is not large (some 2 to 8), and as a rule they lie along the lateral lines.
In some species (Ascaris decipiens) the giant cell is replaced by an irregular mass of protoplasm containing a number of small nuclei.
Similarly the giant cells are produced at their periphery into a number of branching processes which bear similar end-organs on their surface and in some cases terminate in them.
The parasitic Nematodes include by far the greatest number of the known genera; they are found in nearly all the orders of the animal kingdom, but more especially among the Vertebrata, and of these the Mammalia are infested by a greater variety than any of the other groups.
During the excavations on Chatham Hill after 1758 a number of tumuli containing human remains, pottery, coins, &c., suggestive of an ancient settlement, were found.
Where, however, there are a number of cranes all belonging to the same installation, and these are placed so as to be conveniently worked from a central power station, and where the work is rapid, heavy and continuous, as is the case at large ports, docks and railway or other warehouses, experience has shown that it is best to produce the power in a generating station and distribute it to the cranes.
The southern boundary runs in a very irregular line across the central region of India, dividing the Rajputana states from a number of native states in Central India and Gujarat.
The whole number of this race is 620,229, and nowhere do they form a majority of the whole population in a state; but they are strongest, numerically, in the northern states and in Udaipur.
As late as the accession of Assur-bani-pal and Samas-sum-yukin we find the Babylonians appealing to their city laws that groups of aliens to the number of twenty at a time were free to enter the city, that foreign women once married to Babylonian husbands could not be enslaved and that not even a dog that entered the city could be put to death untried.
Every city had a large number of resident aliens.
The Code made known, in a vast number of cases, what that decision would be, and many cases of appeal to the king were sent back to the judges with orders to decide in accordance with it.
The paper cables consist of a number of wires, each enveloped in a loose covering of well-dried paper, and loosely laid up together with a slight spiral " lay " in a bundle, the whole being enclosed in a stout lead pipe.
A second coating is then laid on, and after it passes through a similar process of examination a third coating is applied, and so on until the requisite number is completed.
The length paid out and the rate of paying out are obtained approximately from the number of turns made by the drum P and its rate of turning.
Since by international agreement the wilful damage of a cable has been constituted a criminal offence, and the cable companies have avoided crossing the fishing banks, or have adopted the wise policy of refunding the value of anchors lost on their cables, the number of such fractures has greatly diminished.
A large number of such sheets are prepared and placed together, one over the other, the end of the strip of the first sheet being connected with the beginning of the strip of the second, and so on to the last sheet, the whole representing the conductor of the cable.
Delany (which was adopted to a limited extent in Great Britain, but has now been entirely discarded) had for its object the working of a number of instruments simultaneously on one wire.
In practice the number of segments actually employed is much greater than that indicated on the figure, and the segments are arranged in a number of groups, as shown by fig.
The actual number of sets of apparatus it was possible to work multiplex depended upon the length of the line, for if the latter were long, retardation effects modified the working conditions.
The magnet between the poles of which the rectangular signal coil moves is built up of a number of thin flat horseshoe-shaped permanent magnets of a special quality of steel, and is provided with adjustable pole pieces.
The speed of a cable is given in words per minute, the conventional number of five letters per word being understood, though in actual practice, owing to the extensive use of special codes, the number of letters per word is really between eight and nine; and this forms a considerable factor in lowering the earning capacity of a cable.
In the period from 1855 to 1868 the number of messages carried annually by all the telegraph companies of the United Kingdom increased from 1,017,529 to 5,781,989, or an average annual increase of 16.36 per cent.
The number of instruments in the telegraph offices was 12,000.
The number of messages increased from about 6,500,000 in 1869 to nearly io,000,000 in 1871 and to 20,000,000 in 1875, but the expectations as to net revenue were not justified by the results.
The submarine telegraphs are mainly controlled by companies, the amount of issued capital of the existing British telegraph companies (twenty-four in number) being £3 0, 447, 1 9 1, but a certain number of lines are in government hands.
The offices of the Submarine Company in London, Dover, Ramsgate, East Dean and Jersey were purchased by the Post Office, as well as the cable ship; and the staff, 370 in number, was taken over by the government.
The deficiency on the working for the year ended 31st March 1907 was £54,924, and the approximate number of messages transmitted during the year was 96,783 with 1,126,940 words.
An innumerable number of forms of coherer or wave detector depending upon the change in resistance produced at a loose or imperfect contact have been devised.
A battery with a sufficient number of cells is connected to these two electrodes so as to pass a current through the mercury vapour, negative electricity proceeding from the mercury cathode to the iron anode.
By the middle of 1905 a very large number of vessels had been equipped with the Marconi short distance and long distance wireless telegraph apparatus for intercommunication and reception of messages from power stations on both sides of the Atlantic, and the chief navies of the world had adopted the apparatus.
Starting from an observation of Marconi's, a number of interesting facts have been accumulated on the absorbing effect of sunlight on the propagation of long Hertzian waves through space, and on the disturbing effects of atmospheric electricity as well as upon the influence of earth curvature and obstacles of various kinds interposed in the line between the sending and transmitting stations.4 Electric wave telegraphy has revolutionized our means of communication from place to place on the surface of the earth, making it possible to communicate instantly and certainly between places separated by several thousand miles, whilst The Electrician, 1904, 5 2, p. 407, or German Pat.
A Dominican, Leandro Alberti (Descrizione d'Italia, 1550), states that they were originally nine in number, and an independent authority, Antonio Concioli (Statuta civitatis Eugubii, 1673), states that two of the nine were taken to Venice in 1540 and never reappeared.
The pitch of a musical sound depends on the number of cycles passed through by the fluctuations of the pressure per unit of time; the loudness depends on the amount or the amplitude of the fluctuation in each cycle; the quality depends on the form or the nature of the fluctuation in each cycle.
Experiments bearing on this subject were subsequently made by a great number of investigators.4 Page's discovery is of considerable importance in connexion with the theory of action of various forms of telephone, and was a very important feature in the early attempts by Reis to transit music and speech.
These electric pulses were made to act on an electromagnet at the receiving station, which, in accordance with Page's discovery, gave out a sound of a pitch corresponding to the number of times it was magnetized or demagnetized per second.
The suggestion of Bourseul and the experiments of Reis are founded on the idea that a succession of currents, corresponding in number to the successive undulations of the pressure on the membrane of the transmitting instrument, could reproduce at the receiving station sounds of the same character as those produced at the sending station.
The vast number of microphonic contacts present give rise to very strong electrical undulations, and hence to a loud sound.
The territory in which a telephone administration operates is usually divided into a number of local areas, in each of which one or more exchanges are placed.
When the subscribers in a local area exceed a certain number, or when for some other reason it is not convenient or economical to connect all the subscribers in the area to one exchange, it is usual to divide the area into a number of districts in each of which an exchange is placed, and to connect these district exchanges together by means of " junction circuits."
In a large exchange a number of operators are necessary to attend to calls.
Each subscriber's circuit is further connected to another spring-jack directly associated with the calling-drop. These springjacks, known as answering jacks, are distributed along the switchboard, a certain number being terminated upon each position and placed in the care of the operator assigned to that position.
Each subscriber was given the exclusive use of a circuit as in other systems, and shared a call-wire with a number of other subscribers.
A subscriber desiring a connexion pressed the key and communicated his own number and that of the wanted subscriber to the operator in attendance on the call-wire.
In city districts the modern practice is to restrict the number to four stations per line, and to equip the exchanges and stations for selective ringing.
Each subscriber's circuit on this system terminates upon the incoming portion of a selector switch, called a first selector, and is multipled upon the outgoing portions of a number of similar switches called connector switches.
The movements of the shaft are controlled by relays and electro-magnets which operate in response to the action of the subscriber whose telephone is fitted with a 'calling mechanism which, when the subscriber calls, earths the line a certain number of times for each figure in the number of the wanted subscriber.
When a number of cables follow the same route, they are generally laid in conduits made up of earthenware or cement ducts; iron pipes are used when the number of cables is small.
There, the large cables divide into a number of small cables, which are carried along the footways in pipes and are tapped at suitable points to serve subscribers.
The tariff for unlimited use has to be made very high to cover the cost of the additional burdens thrown upon the service, and it only works economically to the individual subscriber who has an exceptionally large number of calls originating from his instrument.
The subscriber pays a fixed annual rent which covers a certain number of free out - ward calls, say boo; additional calls he purchases in advance in blocks of several hundred at so much per hundred, the price being reduced as the number increases.
The number of trunk wire centres open on the 31st of March 1907 was 533, and the total number of trunk circuits was 2043, containing about 73,000 m.
The total number of conversations which took place over the trunk wires during the year1906-1907was 19,803,300.
The total number of subscribers to the Post Office provincial exchanges on the 31st of March 1907 (excluding those in Glasgow and Brighton) was 10,010, and the number of telephones rented was 12,006.
A number of glands on the interior of the pitcher secrete a plentiful fluid which has digestive properties.
The principal industry is stock-raising, which dates from the first settlement in 1674 by Domingos Affonso Mafrense, who established here a large number of cattle ranges.
The greater part of this trough is over 600 fathoms deep. The profusion of islands and their usually bold elevation give beauty and picturesqueness to the sea, but its navigation is difficult and dangerous, notwithstanding the large number of safe and commodious gulfs and bays.