"the number of commodities" is a grammatically correct phrase and is used in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about the quantity or amount of various goods or products. Example: The number of commodities available for purchase has significantly increased with the growth of online shopping.
The number of commodities in which futures trading takes place are far fewer outside the United States.
The number of commodities included in the U.S. index has expanded from 250 when the index was started in 1902 to about 2,400 in the late 20th century.
Let (I - A −1 be (n x n) direct plus indirect intermediate input requirement matrix or Leontief Inverse, where n is the number of commodities.
The reference year is 2007, the unit is million EUR, the 48 countries and regions were aggregated into 20 world regions, and the number of commodities and industries per region is 163.
The suitability for analyzing the effects of shocks in specific industries on different socioeconomic groups improved significantly with this SAM, as households were disaggregated by province (Sindh, Pakistan, and rest of Pakistan) and the number of commodities was larger than in Siddiqui and Iqbal ([1999]).
The number of clients receiving short-acting contraceptive methods was estimated by dividing the number of commodities provided by the number of commodities needed for a full year of contraceptive protection (e.g., 13 for oral contraceptive pills; 98 for condoms; or 4 for DMPA contraceptive injections, given every 3 months).
A recent report by McKinsey, a consultancy, found that the number of commodity-trading houses in Geneva alone had risen from 200 in 2006 to 400 in 2011.
In the intervening years, EPFR Global of Cambridge, Mass., a tracker of mutual fund flows, counts a fivefold increase, to about 200, in the number of commodity funds and commodity E.T.F.'s.
The nation's Commodity Futures Trading Commission agreed in October to limit the number of commodity contracts that any investor could hold in agriculture or energy, and American ethanol subsidies were eliminated in December.
N = 409 is the number of commodity sectors.
The final value for the parameter is as follows: the population size is 6 × the number of commodity, cross over rate is 0.7, and mutation rate is (1/the number of commodity).
