Example sentences of "[noun sg] about the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps our common reason is not any prediction about the number of cases of injustice that the checkerboard strategy would produce or prevent , but our conviction that no one should actively engage in producing what he believes to be injustice . |
| 2 | First of all there is an issue about the number of places which will be available . |
| 3 | Without scrutinising the accounts and checking them against stock , Ian could think of no way of discovering whether Williams was telling the truth about the number of candles held by the Cathedral . |
| 4 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 5 | The government shares John 's concern about the number of guns in nervous hands . |
| 6 | Over the past year or so , there has been growing concern about the number of cheques being stolen in the post . |
| 7 | Yet in most countries there is continuing concern about the number of patients who develop a hospital-acquired infection quite unrelated to the reason for their admission ; about the accidents which happen to patients while they are in hospital ; about the perennial danger of fire in hospitals ; and about the dangers associated with the use of prescribed drugs in hospital . |
| 8 | Torquil Cowan , head of Longfield comprehensive in Darlington , has already written to some parents voicing his concern about the number of children roving the streets . |
| 9 | He said he was not suggesting that Mrs Swami had tried deliberately to mislead the jury about the number of beatings . |
| 10 | Of course one needs to exercise some common sense about the number of objectives written for any one piece of teaching , but if teaching sessions are seen as part of a series for a given student then objectives can be written for the whole series . |
| 11 | The manager obtains information about the number of learners available to provide service for each week of the year . |
| 12 | The reports of the Commissioner provide some information about the number of warrants in force albeit that they are incomplete . |
| 13 | The erm , importance of monitoring procedures can not be over-stressed because enable , to enable us to actually find out if these er , arrangements are working properly we do have to monitor the arrangements that are in place , and we have to provide details of monitor important for the members ' benefit , er , explaining how the budget is er , is being spent , and also bringing in information about the number of assessments , the levels of assessments , and all the other aspects that er , that make a new system work . |
| 14 | For example a statement about the number of miles it 's done , or the number it 's had . |