Example sentences of "the number of cases [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We will also raise awareness by conducting our own research into the numbers of cases coming to SSDs ' attention .
2 Over the last twelve months , the number of cases transmitted through heterosexual sex has almost doubled .
3 It held steady thereafter until 1935 , the year of a devastating malaria epidemic , when the number of cases increased to 1,020 .
4 Chronic hepatitis B infection is responsible for some 60 million cases of liver cirrhosis worldwide , more than the number of cases caused by alcohol .
5 This involves increasing the number of cases heard in the county courts , thereby maintaining High Court hearings for public law cases , specialist cases and general list cases of importance , complexity and substance .
6 To date , the number of cases taken in this fashion are very few and there has been very little guidance from the Courts as to the ambit of the provision .
7 They measured the number of cases brought to court by persons who alleged that their cattle had been stolen .
8 In spring and summer 1942 , the number of cases brought before the Munich ‘ Special Court ’ as a result of alleged critical remarks made about the regime also increased sharply .
9 Their observations were only partially based on the fall in the number of cases brought before the courts .
10 This figure is less than half the number of cases reported by one clinic , out of thirty odd , in London for that year .
11 A provider , being judged on the length of waiting lists , will simply accept for treatment the number of cases provided for in the contract , quite properly refusing further cases unless reimbursed on a cost-per-case basis .
12 Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women .
13 The number of ‘ true cases of cattle theft ’ , that is the number of cases known to the authorities less those in which it was determined that no crime had been committed , declined in the Southern and Western Provinces from 1,160 in 1908 to 394 in 1914 .
14 But he adds , ‘ there is an increase in the number of cases coming to our attention ’ .
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