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The phrase "apply to the number" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in contexts where one is discussing the relevance or suitability of something in relation to a specific number, but it needs more context to be meaningful.
Example: "The rules apply to the number of participants allowed in the event."
Alternatives: "pertain to the number" or "relate to the number".
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Some 82% of China's high-tech exports are made by foreign companies.One test to apply to the number of patent applications is to see in how many countries they have been filed.
But for what it's worth, the arguments I made months ago about why Christie would make a better presidential candidate than Ryan mostly apply to the number two slot as well.
The same reasoning could apply to the number of carriers which active on any given route.
These materials have a quite good rating as regards to lifetime in fatigue, but the same does not apply to the number of cycles to initial damage, or to the evolution of damage.
Capacity bounds apply to the number of connected substructures emanating from the depot, the number of customers in each of these so-called ring trees, and in each tree of the forest.
The coding arguments presented here apply to the number of distinct DNA binding domains.
Similar(53)
The figure 19,065 applied to the number of positively identified victims, it said, not the number of dead students.
The erroneous figure, 468 million, applied to the number of women who started taking the pill in any given year plus the number of women who continued to use it from the previous year, for a total of 40 years.
The same applies to the number of data sub-channels that can be different in the two systems.
This figure shows 2 QQ-Plots illustrating the result of normality tests applied to the number of problems on the outcome frameworks.
This applies to the number of physics lessons in school and to the participation in preparatory courses in physics, both showing considerable effects.
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