Example sentences of "numbers [prep] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way four new ‘ D ’ numbers for theses previously lacking them were recovered . |
| 2 | The table shows the latest numbers for contributions so far , set roughly against ability to pay and interest in the Gulf measured by reliance on imported oil . |
| 3 | And the table shows the large numbers of women currently using what the World Fertility Survey dismissively ( and inappropriately ) calls ‘ inefficient ’ methods of contraception . |
| 4 | Large numbers of women still work in the non-formal sector and in agriculture , but this does not show up in statistics . |
| 5 | It has to be emphasised that the numbers of casualties often vary quite considerably from year to year as a result of weather and a number of external factors which affect the amount of travel . |
| 6 | In effect , this level of service would have brought authorities close to self-sufficiency , an objective which most experts now agree is unrealistic in view of the very large numbers of titles now published ( 60,000 annually in the BNB alone , compared with the 24,000 of Bourdillon 's day ) , and the speed and efficiency of national interlending services in developed countries . |
| 7 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 8 | The main recreational activities in the prison were volley-ball , ring tennis , chess , kabaddi and other board games , but limited numbers of prisoners actually engaged in them . |
| 9 | The US administration claimed that the recent dramatic increase in the numbers of refugees far exceeded the total of 12,500 who could be accommodated at Guantánamo . |
| 10 | The new services have three components : a configuration definition database component , where templates of key configuration information can be stored ; a change automation component for making changes to large numbers of networks automatically ; and a scheduling services component to control the timing of the changes . |
| 11 | The new services have three components : a configuration definition database where templates of key configuration information can be stored ; change automation for making changes to large numbers of networks automatically ; and scheduling services to control the timing of the changes . |
| 12 | There were some who denied their loss and held on to formulas of belief but by far the largest numbers of devotees simply withdrew from political activity into a position of depression . |
| 13 | The only place where large numbers of skins regularly met was an aptly named shop off Petticoat Lane , called ‘ The Last Resort ’ . |
| 14 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
| 15 | The perception of vast numbers of Blacks detrimentally transforming British society was strongly allied to fears of Black male sexuality . |
| 16 | If you ca n't spell and some of you last week even on Monday we because there were numbers of boys away we had that odd test . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Changes in lifestyle and increasing numbers of households also mean that more homes will be required . |
| 19 | But of the Treatment Action Group , an activist organization in New York , said that large numbers of patients newly identified as HIV carriers were still being prescribed AZT on its own . |
| 20 | What has let Britain down is that this has been allowed to produce growing numbers of redundancies instead of the increase in employment , and growth in the availability of real resources that should have resulted . |
| 21 | It does not follow that increases in crime accompanied by increased numbers of convictions necessarily entails more people being incarcerated . |
| 22 | So far only three-phase variable-reluctance motors have been considered , but for motors with larger numbers of phases then multi-phase excitation is almost obligatory . |
| 23 | He would like some moorings removed on pure safety grounds and to make navigation by large numbers of boats easier . |
| 24 | The febrile atmosphere of pre-disaster London had already wrought a gear-change in the night scene , the numbers of men away at training barracks having produced a seemingly equal and opposite number of women on the spree . |
| 25 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 26 | This project examines local authority demand for voluntary and private residential child care in the context of falling numbers of children both in care and in residential accommodation , and in the context of financial constraints in public , voluntary and private sectors alike . |
| 27 | The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) . |
| 28 | Perhaps non-clinical legionellosis follows exposure to small numbers of bacteria alone , the clinical form occurring as a result of exposure either to a large dose of bacteria or to legionellae packaged in amoebae . |
| 29 | More significant are the numbers of votes actually cast , since these enter into the calculation of the quota normally required for a candidate 's election . |
| 30 | Over recent years imports and exports have been vested with great political and cultural-ideological significance , and it is very likely that increasing numbers of consumers now register the country of origin of what they are buying , and producers now register the destination of what they are producing , and this knowledge may affect their actions . |