The number of sentenced sex offenders is now nearly 11,000, with eight dedicated prisons holding the majority of them.
Indeed, the mere number of sentences imposed here would not place the United States at the top of the incarceration lists.
It's a property of the way we order words that means the number of sentences we can produce is theoretically infinite.
We probably set a record for the number of sentences fractured per quarter-hour, but our persistence was always rewarded, with more instruction and more encouragement.
In addition, it was observed, language learners acquire the ability to recognize the meaningfulness, as well as the grammaticality, of an infinite number of sentences.
An automated reader can count, he said, so it can set parameters for the number of words in a good sentence and the number of sentences in a good paragraph.
This test, of course, provides no way of establishing that two expressions are of the same category (but only that they are not), since there is an infinite number of sentence-frames, and one may always yet be found that does not permit the substitution to be made without absurdity.
Number of sentences 1 point per sentence.
Syntactic complexity* Division between compound sentences and number of sentences.
