Example sentences of "total number [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind that numbers waiting for less than a year have risen , bringing the total number on waiting lists to almost a million — a new record high . |
| 2 | First , the estimated total number of ganglion cells in the standard retina ( 1.52x10 6 ) , based on data obtained from flat-mounted retinae sampled at 500μm intervals , is similar to the number of optic axons in the optic nerve ( 1.50x10 6 ) . |
| 3 | The year of maximum emigration to Curação was 1945 , when 2,769 emigrated , this being forty-six per cent of the total number of Madeiran emigrants in that year . |
| 4 | The rapid growth in the number of people over 75 will bring a very significant increase in the total number of dementia sufferers in spite of the forecasted decline in the population aged 65 to 74 . |
| 5 | The total number of asylum requests for the whole of 1991 was 256,000 . |
| 6 | The stage number is defined by the ratio of the total number of interlayer spaces to the number of filled layer spaces . |
| 7 | The latest redundancies bring the total number of job losses at the factory to thirteen hundred , in less than three years . |
| 8 | As illustrated in Figure 3. 1 , the total number of heroin users in a community during a one-year period ( annual prevalence ) is analogous to the level of water in a sink . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the total number of bank holidays in each of the EC countries . |
| 10 | Multiply the total number of pattern repeats by the size of the repeat to give your total fabric requirement . |
| 11 | The report , the result of a three year survey and third in a series named Seabirds at Sea , found that more than half of the world 's total number of breeding pairs of Manx shearwater , puffin , gannet and black guillemot live off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea . |
| 12 | This brought the total number of volunteer repatriates in 1991 to 6,617 . |
| 13 | Until recently , even the total number of research reactors in the country was unknown . |