Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [art] number [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early 1917 the number of strikes in the capital rose and there was a series of demonstrations , notably on 9 January , the anniversary of Bloody Sunday , and 14 February , the day the Duma reconvened . |
| 2 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 3 | Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today . |
| 4 | By the late 1960s a number of lines of evidence were being brought together into a new , radical model of global tectonics . |
| 5 | By the mid 1960s the number of universities had doubled when compared to twenty years earlier , and the general undergraduate population had quadrupled . |