Example sentences of "[was/were] the [adj] number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And dotted through the year were the increasing number of Days dedicated to Saints who were honoured with his particular attentions . |
| 2 | Assessment became the field in which there were the largest number of changes and retractions in government policy . |
| 3 | However , even more interesting were the large number of cells which seemed active only when the rat visited a particular place in the maze and/or carried out particular behavioural acts ( food searching , drinking or whatever ) in that place . |
| 4 | What my hon. Friend has said is certainly the case at Rover , but it has also been the case throughout industry during the past year , when there was the lowest number of strikes for more than 45 years . |
| 5 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 6 | Another possible measure was the average number of citations within the citation period . |
| 7 | " What was the average number of children per family in 1881 ? " ) . |
| 8 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total number of responses to the consultation process regarding the application for trust status for Ayrshire South hospital ; and how many were for or against . |
| 10 | What was the total number of lines ? |
| 11 | This was the highest number of convictions in one year since the present record began in nineteen forty five . |
| 12 | Forty-eight was the maximum number of matches that could be fitted into a day . |
| 13 | What was the maximum number of cows you could let us have ? |
| 14 | In spite of the struggle Bomber Command endured and the casualties suffered , particularly in the first two years when the bombers did so badly , and the only positive result we could measure was the shocking number of losses in aircrew , we were squandering our seed-corn . |
| 15 | What was atypical about Edinburgh was the large number of women recruited to the trade of compositor . |
| 16 | An exception to this was the large number of women aged 20–29 included in the study . |
| 17 | A feature of the demonstration was the large number of placards denouncing the immigration policies of the Socialist government . |
| 18 | Another sign of security was the rising number of households which did not need to buy seeds , but planted their own 634 in the autumn of 1922 , as against 554 in 1920 . |