Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five companies reduced the number of firms carrying out their audits . |
| 2 | Increasingly , tea and rubber plantations reduced the number of places where cattle could freely wander , thus making it more difficult for animals to be stolen , hidden and transported . |
| 3 | At the same time the digital read-outs displayed the number of pulses given out : 1 , 2 , 3 , … |
| 4 | John Murrell , the managing governor of long-established education consultants Gabbitas , Truman & Thring , dates the grade race from the early Eighties when , in response to government cuts , the universities reduced the number of places available — just as the number of eighteen year-olds was growing . |
| 5 | The earlier figures measured the number of cases which were instituted before a magistrate or a justice of the peace . |
| 6 | Yet what distinguishes the structure of Japanese industry is not only the high death rate of companies but the fact that even in the severe recession of the mid-1970s , the birth rate of new small firms exceeded the number of bankruptcies by 50 per cent . |
| 7 | Baptists saw the number of ministers without any college training drop by 32 per cent while those going to a college rose by twenty per cent . |
| 8 | The 50 per cent discount that it offers shareholders on its ferry crossings boosted the number of shareholders by 60 per cent to 160,000 between 1981 and 1984 . |
| 9 | Further processing to remove hyphenation and possessives reduced the number of absences to 1186 types ( 669 tokens ) . |
| 10 | In December Essex Police increased the number of officers attending matches at Layer Road after two constables were slightly injured in a clash with a small number of home supporters . |
| 11 | Yesterday several North-East councils said the number of electors has risen despite voters trying to avoid paying the poll tax . |