Example sentences of "[prep] the number of [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birmingham City 's Peter Crawford , who claimed a ‘ school record ’ for the number of suspensions from Mirfield Secondary School , was taken , along with other pupils , to the then Aston Manor Club ( now Aston Villa ABC ) by ‘ a school teacher called Kane who 'd boxed for Ireland at one stage ’ . |
| 2 | Possibly the widening class-consciousness of militant trade unionism within the Edwardian working class , especially considering the number of players from mining origins , may also have helped encourage this flurry of ‘ industrial ’ action . |
| 3 | Four divisions of ten may not be the ideal solution for the future of Scottish football — it does n't , for example , address the problem of clubs meeting four times a season — but at least a reduction in the number of games from 44 to 36 will give everyone breathing space . |
| 4 | A sample of thirty Oxfordshire parishes shows a progressive decline in the number of communicants from 911 in 1738 through 896 in 1759 to 682 by 1802 . |
| 5 | For the first time in at least twelve months staff there noticed an upturn in the number of enquiries from would be house buyers . |
| 6 | RESIGNATIONS of underwriting members from the Lloyd 's insurance market could top 2,000 by the end of this year , a new record in the number of departures from the market . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There has been a remarkable rise particularly in the number of publications from Africa , Asia and Latin America . |
| 9 | In any event , this latest tightening of the screw brought about a sharp increase in the number of Kindertransporte from Berlin and a change in the composition of the Kindertransporte from Berlin and Vienna . |
| 10 | The only significant change of policy was the reduction in the number of submarines from five to four . |
| 11 | Secondly , there has been a drop in the number of school leavers as a result of the fall in the birth rate between 1964 and 1977 causing a drop in the number of workers from this age group . |
| 12 | Not until the end of the Napoleonic Wars did increased specialization effect a sharp drop in the number of transfers from military to civil service . |
| 13 | Also , although there were marked fluctuations in the number of admissions from year to year , it is clear that from about 1490 the numbers of those admitted at York were consistently lower than they had been from the mid 1380s to the 1440s . |
| 14 | ( b ) If the motor has attained its maximum stepping rate deceleration must commence when the number of steps required to decelerate is equal to the number of steps from the target . |
| 15 | For example , if the process selects the correct word one in four times this does not necessarily imply 25% accuracy — it depends on the number of candidates from which each choice is made . |