Example sentences of "the number of [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , before offering in 1985 to put health warnings on shop facias and canopies , the industry expanded hugely the number of such signs without warnings . |
| 2 | The apparent excess of fathers monitored for radiation among children with leukaemia does not seem to be because the number of such fathers in the control group was unusually low by chance . |
| 3 | The 30MW sets were extremely conservative ( the first set with the standard conditions had been commissioned as long ago as 1929 ) , but Pask , the chief engineer , resisted pressure to reduce the number of such sets in the early years and concentrate more on the 60MW design . |
| 4 | Furthermore , though the number of persons suffering from a mental disorder who can not be helped on a voluntary basis is relatively small , the number of such persons in the community is likely to increase . |
| 5 | It is not possible to determine the number of such people among the 119 recorded as dying in 1990 or how many would not have taken an overdose had they been aware that paracetamol , if taken in large quantities , often results in a painful and lingering death due to liver failure . |
| 6 | We have seen ( pp. 30–1 , above ) that the vast expansion in the number of such fires in the postwar years had provided consumers with a way of avoiding the consequences of coal rationing , but the effects on the electricity supply system were devastating . |
| 7 | Thus it can be concluded that the LTP , and in contrast to Bliss 's group , other labs reported that there was an increase in the number of these receptors in hippocampal neurons following induction of LTP , thus moving the focus of interest about mechanism from the pre-to the postsynaptic side . |
| 8 | However , the number of these cases in the local weekly , Middlesex Chronicle , shows that there are likely to be large variations among local newspapers in the amount of coverage of these residual sexual offences . |
| 9 | The local council in Yokohama hopes to increase the number of these trucks to 30 in the near future . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the century pornographic magazines , which extensively used the sexual content of cases with accompanying obscene prints , began to emerge and the number of these kinds of magazines increased appreciably after 1800 . |