Example sentences of "number of [noun] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A substantial number of prisoners participated in the riots ‘ at least in part , because of the conditions in which they were held and the way in which they were treated . |
| 2 | A number of youngsters fainted in the crush and had to be treated by St John Ambulance volunteers . |
| 3 | How many people what kind of number of servants stayed in the house ? |
| 4 | Advances were made in education , and the number of literates grew in the period 1910 to 1945 , but it is important not to overestimate this growth . |
| 5 | For Study 4 the total number of films watched in the judgment phase was slightly reduced as was the mean length of a film in order to allow the full stimulus set to appear in the recognition phase , this effectively doubles the amount of information each subject gives in the recognition phase , fortunately this was a part of the experiment which previous subjects had generally found agreeably challenging and intrinsically motivating . |
| 6 | He has cut public transport funding and cut in the number of people employed in the public transport service . |