Example sentences of "in numbers of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increase in numbers of fat and very fat people in the 1980s showed diet was not the only factor . |
| 2 | The trend in numbers of night visits claimed is shown in the figure . |
| 3 | This makes military research and development by far the most important scientific activity — important in numbers of scientists involved and money spent ; it is also the most important in that it threatens the annihilation of more people than any other human activity . |
| 4 | He claimed that the actual increase in numbers of cases granted legal aid was only 5 per cent this year — from 271,759 to 288,000 — and cited a Scottish Office report on spending plans which forecast a peak in claims in 1992-93 , followed by a decline . |
| 5 | There is no single reason for the rise in numbers of claims . |
| 6 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 7 | The company lags behind Bell and Sikorsky in numbers of helicopters delivered annually , but has a backlog of 165 orders for the MD500 series and 240 ‘ certificates of interest ’ for the Explorer , though only four firm orders . |
| 8 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 9 | ‘ The task was not easy because along with the rise in numbers of factory committees each one had a tendency to multiply its prerogatives and to treat each factory as an independent unit of production , the collective property of its own workers , determining by itself production , sales and pricing , while the social domination of the working class over the means of production required that the atomised and contradictory powers of the factory committees be subordinated to a common political end ’ ( my translation A.C. ) . |
| 10 | The four owl species , barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , and Verreaux eagle owl , are grouped in category 1 ( Table 3.14 ) which is characterized by consistently low enamel digestion on the molars of microtines and other rodents , both in degree and in numbers of teeth affected , with no alteration on insectivore teeth . |
| 11 | The insects — flies , butterflies , beetles , ants , fleas , bugs , dragonflies , grasshoppers , aphids , wasps , etc. — are the most varied and numerous of the arthropods both in numbers of species and individuals . |
| 12 | The main difference is in numbers of species . |
| 13 | The deep reasons for the difference in numbers of species are unknown — assuming , that is , that there are deep reasons . |
| 14 | Most estates were assessed in numbers of hides ( roughly 70,000 – 80,000 in all ) , units used in the allocation of public burdens which might be military , as in 1008 , when every 300 hides provided a ship and every eight a helmet and byrnie ( mail-coat ) for the navy , or financial , with each hide taxed at a particular rate . |
| 15 | Examples of market orientated attitudes can be found in some supermarket chains and in numbers of travel agency operations . |
| 16 | Table 8. 1 above shows that between 1978 — 9 and 1988 — 9 there was a major and planned increase in real terms in spending on defence and law and order ; spending on housing and industry were heavily cut , while on education ( helped by a fall in numbers of school children ) and on transport it stayed fairly constant . |
| 17 | Commentators regarded the raids and the increase in numbers of soldiers as measures clearly designed to placate Jewish settlers in the West Bank . |
| 18 | As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale . |
| 19 | But success can not be measured merely in numbers of offspring . |
| 20 | Great Britain and Russia , for example , led in numbers of towns , but were very different societies . |
| 21 | Notice that the relationship expressed in Table 5 can be written algebraically as follows : where NI is the firm 's net investment measured in numbers of machines , D , is the current demand for the firm 's product and D t is last year 's demand for the firm 's product . |
| 22 | The pattern that emerges from these results on trampling is one of breakage of skulls , jaws and postcrania leading to complete absence of skulls , reduction in numbers of maxillae , considerable loss of teeth from the jaws leading to large numbers of isolated teeth , considerable breakage of larger postcranial elements and some degree of loss , but no loss or breakage of smaller elements . |
| 23 | It took a turn for the worse with the reduction in numbers of personnel here at site and was taken from us suddenly in March when the outcome of a company-wide vote [ on what should have been agreed locally ] was announced . |
| 24 | He discussed with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev the differing proposals by Bush and Yeltsin for cuts in numbers of warheads . |
| 25 | This change process enabled the manufacturing entity to effect not only the required reduction in numbers of employees , but also an improvement in operation . |
| 26 | Rises in numbers of people with gonorrhoea were observed within and outside the Thames regions in 1989 ( J Hilton , personal communication ) . |
| 27 | By all means let us find ways of limiting the use of cars , but in truth , is the real cause of our difficulties not the dramatic rise in numbers of people in this and other countries over the past 70 years ? |
| 28 | Variations in numbers of additions from one cylinder to another are to be expected . |
| 29 | If this is the case , and long-term memory for the simple association is reflected in a widespread increase in numbers of synapses , it is difficult to argue that the memory is ‘ represented , by but a single set of synapses at a particular motor neuron ; thousands must be involved , distributed across many cells . |
| 30 | Despite the increase in numbers of therapists , and the high fees , demand continues to outstrip supply and many therapists have waiting lists of several weeks . |