Sentence examples for number of lay from inspiring English sources

A number of lay groups have risen up in Boston in the past several months.

In this era there was an increasing number of lay encyclopaedists e.g., Latini, Bandini, de la Torre and the subject coverage changed to give more space and importance to the practical matters that interested the rising mercantile class.

Last month, NHS England published updated guidelines on clamping down on conflicts of interest, including publicly available registers of gifts and hospitality, and increasing the number of lay members on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) governing bodies to manage conflicts and provide extra scrutiny.

What they want is for candidates for "a small number of lay posts", or more exactly "certain senior lay posts that involve promoting and representing the religion" to be required "to demonstrate an ability to live a life consistent with the ethos of the religion".

Research by Georgetown University (formally a Jesuit outfit) shows that although giving to diocesan fundraising campaigns dropped sharply after 2002, donations to local parishes did not.One reason is that Catholic fury has found an outlet in a growing number of lay pressure groups.

The effect of material properties, ply orientation, number of lay ups, aspect ratio and coefficients of thickness variations on the frequency parameter are presented.

Stall width did not affect the number of lying events or milk production.

Total lying time, number of lying bouts, and the length of each lying bout was recorded with data loggers.

Accelerometers recorded daily lying time, number of lying bouts per day, lying bout duration (min/bout), and total steps per day.

The estimates derived from each sample size were compared with the overall means (based on 5 d and 44 cows per farm) for lying time and number of lying bouts, and the CCI and SUI were compared with the farm means of lying time, number of lying bouts, and bout duration using linear regression.

The CCI and SUI showed no association with the daily lying time (h/d; R2 < 0.01), and CCI was only weakly associated with the number of lying bouts per day (R2 = 0.16) and bout duration (min/bout; R2 = 0.09).