Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

* Australian Company Number, number issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to registered companies

As the size of the Australian diaspora has increased, so has the number of clubs outside Australia.

The Australian Sports Commission statistics show a 64 % increase in the total number of participants over the 10 year period between 2001 – 2010.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

The word bunyip can still be found in a number of Australian contexts, including place names such as the Bunyip River ( which flows into Westernport Bay in southern Victoria ) and the town of Bunyip, Victoria.

Since then, a number of Australian states have introduced or tightened importation regulations.

The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.

" Intriguer topped the Australian album chart, reached number 3 in New Zealand and number 12 in the UK.

In 2009, " Don't Dream It's Over " was ranked number fifty on the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, voted by the Australian public.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

* 1875 – The hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.

All Australian states allow for peremptory challenges in jury selection, however, the number of challenges granted to the counsels in each state are not all the same.

A song off the album, " Saltwater ", reached number six in the UK and topped the Australian singles charts for four weeks.

In 1971 Greenberg proposed the Indo-Pacific macrofamily, which groups together the Papuan languages ( a large number of language families of New Guinea and nearby islands ) with the native languages of the Andaman Islands and Tasmania but excludes the Australian Aboriginal languages.

According to the sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, it was rendered by a number of Australian university lecturers.

The Australian bulldog ant, Myrmecia pilosula, a haplodiploid species, has n = x = 1, the lowest chromosome number theoretically possible.

During the economic boom of the 1980s, the Western Australian government became closely involved with a number of large businesses.

Older Australian rotary dial telephones also had letters, but the combinations were often printed in the center plate adjacent to the number.

The Australian letter to number mapping was: A = 1, B = 2, F = 3, J = 4, L = 5, M = 6, U = 7, W = 8, X = 9, Y = 0, so the phone number BX 3701 was in fact 29 3701.

* " Television series ", the Australian, British, and a number of others countries ' equivalent term for the North American " television season ", a set of episodes produced by a television serial.

The primary reason for this is that gaming machines have been legal in the state of New South Wales since 1956 and over that time the number of machines has grown to 97, 103 ( at December 2010, including the Australian Capital Territory ).

In all `` degree '' courses in interior design a number of `` academic '' or `` general studies '' courses are included.

According to a number of studies, the important predictors are the nature and management of the client's anxiety as well as the accessibility of the helping person.

Supporting literature includes: the work of social impact theory, which discusses persuasion in part through the number of persons engaging in influence ; as well as studies made on the relative influence of communicator credibility in different kinds of persuasion ; and examinations of the trustworthiness of the speaker.

There have been a large number of studies of the efficacy of typical antipsychotics, and an increasing number on the more recent atypical antipsychotics.

A number of studies have looked at levels of " compliance " or " adherence " with antipsychotic regimes and found that discontinuation ( stopping taking them ) by patients is associated with higher rates of relapse, including hospitalization.

A review of major longitudinal studies in North America found that a moderate number of patients with schizophrenia were seen to recover over time from their symptoms, raising the possibility that some patients may not require maintenance medication.

As one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus has been the subject of a number of studies in the emerging field of asteroseismology.

Although initial studies suggested that antioxidant supplements might promote health, later large clinical trials with a limited number of antioxidants detected no benefit and even suggested that excess supplementation with certain putative antioxidants may be harmful.

A number of studies have shown that activity in primary sensory areas of the brain is not sufficient to produce consciousness: it is possible for subjects to report a lack of awareness even when areas such as the primary visual cortex show clear electrical responses to a stimulus.

At this time a number of researchers, most notably Eugene M. Shoemaker, ( co-discoverer of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 ), conducted detailed studies of a number of craters and recognized clear evidence that they had been created by impacts, specifically identifying the shock-metamorphic effects uniquely associated with impact events, of which the most familiar is shocked quartz.

A number of studies have claimed that the reaction of pain receptors to the hotter ingredients in curries leads to the body's release of endorphins, curry is claimed to be one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs.

The actual number in Scotland varies considerably — between approximately 350 to 500 due to the use of the term " island dun " for well over one hundred Hebridean examples — a distinction that has created a divide between mainland Scottish crannog and Hebridean islet settlement studies.

The late 20th century and early 21st century has seen a large number of studies of Chinese history that seek to challenge traditional paradigms.

It can also be inherited in some families and so on, and recent studies have identified a number of genes that may predispose an individual to developing dyslexia.

A review of fourteen studies on the subject in sub-Saharan Africa, covering insecticide-treated nets, residual spraying, chemoprophylaxis for children, chemoprophylaxis or intermittent treatment for pregnant women, a hypothetical vaccine, and changing front – line drug treatment, found decision making limited by the gross lack of information on the costs and effects of many interventions, the very small number of cost-effectiveness analyses available, the lack of evidence on the costs and effects of packages of measures, and the problems in generalizing or comparing studies that relate to specific settings and use different methodologies and outcome measures.

This work has motivated a large number of studies, but is also controversial.

For example, there have been a number of epidemiological studies of looking for a relationship between cell phone use and brain cancer development, which have been largely inconclusive, save to demonstrate that the effect, if it exists, cannot be a large one.

However, studies have shown that the removal of tuition fees at third level has increased the number of students overall and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Further studies with a number of different dive profiles, and also different levels of exertion, would be necessary to fully investigate this issue.

Indeed there was a steady stream of edicts issued from 771 right through the period of Kūkai's studies which, for instance, sought to limit the number of Buddhist priests, and the building of temples.

For instance, several recent studies and surveys by sociologists and political scientists that utilize more complex definitional parameters have estimated the number of evangelicals in the U. S. at about 25 – 30 % of the population, or roughly between 70 and 80 million people.

Among these were psychologists at Colorado University and Hunter College, New York, who completed the studies with the largest number of trials and the highest levels of significance.