Example sentences of "number of [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of teams more than doubled as word spread round the pubs , and £120 was raised through sponsorship for charity . |
| 2 | In 1992 , the number of injuries worldwide that caused employees to lose working time fell by [ 10% ] . |
| 3 | Between 1966 and 1981 the number of conversions more than doubled in Greater London and , according to the Nationwide Building Society , conversions accounted for between 30 and 60 percent of all mortgages granted in central and inner London in 1984/85 . |
| 4 | What we have in ( 5 ) might be improved in a number of ways so as to deal with questions and indeed objections , and thereby complicated and indeed greatly complicated . |
| 5 | During the same period the number of apprentices more than trebled from 80 to 250 as the town became a specialist craft centre offering a wide variety of trades . |
| 6 | You will know how many rows there should be to the inch ( centimetre ) , all you need to do is to work a number of rows less than given in the instructions before finishing the sleeve . |
| 7 | Co-occurrence data has been used by the present project ; the data having been collected from a number of corpora rather than LDOCE . |
| 8 | ‘ The operation was carried out in Britain a number of years ago but failed and doctors here are unwilling to try it again . ’ |
| 9 | One participant recollected attending an Inquiry into unemployment a number of years ago and asked the question : ‘ Has anything changed ? ’ |
| 10 | There has been a sharp escalation in the number of chartered accountants resorting to individual voluntary arrangements to try and resolve their financial crises and avoid bankruptcy the number of IVAs more than doubled last year . |