Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this , there are still long waiting lists for urgent adult admissions to mental handicap hospitals , and as we have noted the numbers of adults in mental handicap hospitals are only falling slowly . |
| 2 | However , figures disaggregated by sex on the numbers of claimants who have had their benefit withdrawn for such reasons are not readily available . |
| 3 | For most of the period 1279 to 1327 , we have documentary evidence for the numbers of dies made and coinage struck at the mints of London and Canterbury . |
| 4 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | According to the latest survey by the BBC , schools have reported a 30 per cent increase in the numbers of youngsters being permanently excluded from schools across the eastern region . |
| 6 | Means noting the numbers of times each behaviour is witnessed . |
| 7 | Flogging was reintroduced in India at this time by the Whipping Act of 1864 , and even the bare statistical details of the numbers of floggings carried out by the British are enough to make the blood run cold . |
| 8 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 9 | In general , the numbers of widows in the 15–44 age group remained fairly constant at about 200,000 throughout the period , despite steady increases in the total population . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the numbers of women receiving outdoor relief decreased from 166,407 on 1 January 1871 to 53,371 on 1 January 1892 , and the numbers of widows in the same category fell from 53,502 on 1 January 1873 to 36,627 on 1 January 1892 . |
| 11 | Figure 2.3 gives , for the United Kingdom as a whole , the numbers of males and females in each of five age groups below the age of 25 . |
| 12 | The West German Institute for Economic Research predicted on June 27 that East German unemployment would rise from the present 130,000 to 1,400,000 or 16 per cent of the workforce ; the government had said , however , that 1,000,000 workers would be retrained in 1990 , in preparation for the new business environment , and that the numbers of apprenticeships for young workers would quintuple between June and September . |
| 13 | I note the minister did n't give er the numbers of apprenticeships and there 's possibly a reason for that . |
| 14 | The next day , they admitted that they had miscounted and that ‘ in the period June 27-August 9 … the numbers of persons detained for the whole range of offences connected with public order were loyalists 468 ; republicans 427 ’ . |
| 15 | The water requirements can be estimated from the numbers of persons involved , the usual amounts being 10 gal ( 45 1. ) per head per day for those using the canteens and 20 gal ( 90 1. ) per head per day for toilets . |
| 16 | In terms of the numbers of persons involved , short-term contract working ( with the worker being the direct employee of the organisation which engages him ) is the most important form of temporary working in Britain . |
| 17 | These buildings became a common feature of the market towns as the numbers of soldiers increased ; at one stage there were 15,000 troops in Brighton alone and large contingents in most of the other towns . |
| 18 | Superovulation is a useful device for increasing the numbers of eggs and embryos obtained from young ( 3–4 weeks ) mice ( for discussion of the factors involved see ref. 6 ) . |
| 19 | Since the crucial period of pasture contamination with O. ostertagi eggs is the period up to mid-July , one of the efficient modern anthelmintics may be given on two or three occasions between turn-out in the spring and July to minimise the numbers of eggs deposited on the pasture . |
| 20 | In fact the numbers of anemones on a reef location control the population of clownfish to be found there . |
| 21 | The numbers of Elves had so declined in later years that many of the cities were half empty and many of the lands abandoned . |
| 22 | This set will finally give us the numbers of vibrations of each symmetry species . |
| 23 | By removing these from the representation of all motions we are left with Γ vib , the list of the numbers of vibrations of each symmetry species for the molecule . |
| 24 | Now just give you an example of the numbers of schemes we 've got at the moment , just on my area , my old area from West Bridgford , covering Newark , there 's two hundred and twenty Neighbourhood Watch schemes . |
| 25 | Overall there are some 80 plus codes that control everything from the font required , the justification format , the numbers of columns , kerning , tracking , leading and a host more . |
| 26 | The numbers of cattle in these herds are |
| 27 | The numbers of cattle and the cumulated numbers are as follows : |
| 28 | The Department of Employment in their Partnership Handbook publication , recommend and increase in the numbers of teachers undertaking secondment into industry as a key performance indicator of partnership activity , as it has been of the TVEI extension programme . |
| 29 | As a starting point for my research I decided to find out about the numbers of teachers who worked in secondary schools , the posts that they held and the distribution of men and women teachers to various posts , together with their qualifications and salaries . |
| 30 | Between 1987/88 and 1989/90 the numbers of teachers taking early retirement rose from 7,574 to 12,343 . |