Example sentences of "rise [prep] the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was partly the result of a gift of £1 million from the Emir of Kuwait , along with a rise in the number of visitors which has generated around £.5 million . |
| 2 | However a worrying trend is the sharp rise in the number of accidents involving cyclists , but without further research it is not possible to say whether this is a consequence of the doubling of the number of cyclists in Buxtehude in four years , a trend encouraged by the introduction of environmental traffic management . |
| 3 | For all the rise in the number of births , and despite some medical advances , potential causes of a premature death were lurking around every corner , or sweeping the country in periodic epidemics ; especially vulnerable were the very young , the old and the infirm . |
| 4 | The outbreak of the Gulf war in January 1991 produced a considerable rise in the number of conscripts seeking conscientious-objector status , including some who were already members of the armed forces [ see pp. 37941 ; 37989 ; 38199-200 ] . |
| 5 | The targeting of the security forces by Republican paramilitaries is reflected in a rise in the number of members of the security forces killed as a proportion of total deaths . |
| 6 | One cause of overcrowding in contemporary prisons , not only in Texas , has been the rise in the number of sentences of imprisonment imposed by the courts . |
| 7 | There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics . |
| 8 | Two other features of the election were the large number of new members elected ( around two-thirds ) and the further rise in the number of women members ( up from 63 to 77 ) . |
| 9 | The later seventeenth century had seen a marked rise in the number of lawyers , scriveners , physicians , surgeons , apothecaries and schoolmasters , whose most prosperous members formed a type of urban gentry who were able to lead a leisured life without the support of a landed estate . |
| 10 | One major example has been the rise in the number of groups some more organized than others — representing communities or neighbourhoods , mainly within the context of local politics . |
| 11 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
| 12 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
| 13 | In another survey , HPI , the vehicle information organisation , has monitored a 5.7 p.c. rise in the number of inquiries for used vehicles from dealers , auction and finance houses . |
| 14 | National income [ she concludes ] was increased by an amount equivalent to 0.3% per annum due to the decline in mortality rates , from the 1900 level ( assuming , as does Denison that a 1% rise in the number of workers , other factors held constant , yields a 0.73% rise in national income for this period ) . |
| 15 | But it is the lenders ' generosity with their funds during that era that has been partly blamed for the continuing rise in the number of arrears and repossession cases . |
| 16 | The case caused a dramatic rise in the number of developers seeking to add the additional ten per cent to their blocks of flats , much to the concern of the tenants affected . |
| 17 | A further employment trend which is central to any account of service sector expansion is the rise in the number of jobs transferred from manufacturing to service industries as the former ‘ contract out ’ services to lower costs . |
| 18 | During the 11 years the numbers of residents in NHS geriatric and psychiatric beds fell by 41% ; this fall was partly compensated for by a 37% rise in the number of patients in acute beds . |
| 19 | In the year to the end of June there was an eleven per cent increase in the number of outpatients seen and a smaller rise in the number of patients treated in hospital wards . |
| 20 | But the likelihood is that everyone else is consuming the same product ; with the inexorable rise in the number of books in print , there are now approaching 600,000 different titles to choose from , allowing each of us to tailor our reading precisely to our own individual needs and preferences . |
| 21 | Among those in the middle age band , that is between 30 and pension age , the main reasons for the rise in the number of households are the increase in marital breakdown and the tendency for non-married people to live on their own ( Haskey , 1987a ) . |
| 22 | The corporate plan assumes a 6 per cent reduction in costs , a 14 per cent jump in receipts and a 15 per cent rise in the number of passenger-miles by March 1994 . |
| 23 | This coincided with the intensification of the pro-natalist campaign , but was probably due to the soldiers returning at the end of the Abyssinian war and the resultant rise in the number of marriages . |
| 24 | Dixon reports : ‘ In the last 12 months , there has been a 30 per cent rise in the number of fans from the younger age group attending our shows . |
| 25 | Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate . |
| 26 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the recent rise in the number of crimes involving firearms . |
| 27 | The annual report of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution has predicted a sharp rise in the number of prosecutions made against polluters over the next year . |
| 28 | A Gallup Poll in March 1960 showed that 78% of those questioned favoured the death penalty , with 73% believing that complete abolition would lead to a rise in the number of murders . |
| 29 | SMALL companies were yesterday urged to be more vigorous in pursuing debts as figures showed yet another rise in the number of liquidations . |
| 30 | THE recession has caused a large rise in the number of dogs being given to kennels by owners unable to afford the animals ' upkeep . |