Example sentences of "[art] number of [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers of students at the colleges of education grew rapidly in the late 1960s , reaching a total of 114,000 by 1972 . |
| 2 | The numbers of tumours at each site were predetermined according to the approximate frequency of presentation at that primary site . |
| 3 | The numbers of Indians at stations did indeed become an index of the distance the American traveller had journeyed westwards . |
| 4 | And there were a fair number , though of course the numbers of women at Cambridge are , or at that time were , very low . |
| 5 | Difficulty was defined in terms of the numbers of children at each age level getting each item right . |
| 6 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 7 | Our picture shows retail director standing in front of a fraction of the number of lorries at Buntingford depot that the Penny Back Scheme has kept off the road . |
| 8 | Morgan in nineteen ninety one took a hundred and seventy patients again found the number of tumours at diagnosis to be most important . |
| 9 | The first one was the result of the three month check cystoscopy either positive or negative and the second one the number of tumours at presentation either single or multiple . |
| 10 | When you look at er the arrangement of these patients in the prognostic groups you 'll see that the information from the er the number of tumours at presentation and the the result of the three-month check cystoscopy is quite independent of grade and stage . |
| 11 | That will lead to an increase in the number of operations at the Royal . |
| 12 | Provincial cities which had ten to twelve theatres now have one or two and probably there were double the number of actors at that time . |
| 13 | Intel says that it will introduce personal computer add-in boards and software later this year , but refused to confirm a report in US PC Week that places the number of products at 20 and says that the first launch will be in April . |
| 14 | Some of the archers thought that if the competition were restricted to longbows it would die out but , after a decrease when the steel bows first appeared , the number of longbows at the Scorton shoot is steadily increasing . |
| 15 | CASHLINE machines are to be installed at several Sainsbury supermarkets as part of a Royal Bank plan to increase the number of ATMs at what are known as third party or remote locations . |
| 16 | This contributed to a fall of 423,000 , from 1971 to 1981 , in the number of males at work . |
| 17 | The year after this , street lighting was introduced using oil lamps on pillars ; there was a drastic reduction in the number of muggings at night , a plague of city life in the late eighteenth-century . |
| 18 | Here again , both the size of larger holdings and the number of cottagers at the bottom end of the social scale increased as the Stuart era progressed . |
| 19 | Rotorway International reported that a number of aircraft had achieved , without sprocket bolt failure , many times the number of hours at which the bolt on this aircraft failed , but that several failures of these bolts had occurred at a life similar to that at which the failure occurred . |
| 20 | Since DDI , the number of calls at Colchester General 's switchboard has fallen on average to 3,000 . |
| 21 | More trains are promised between Saltburn , Redcar , Middlesbrough and Darlington although the number of calls at South Bank will be reduced to speed up journeys . |
| 22 | The number of calls at South Bank will be reduced to cut journey times . |
| 23 | The high number of sites very close to water can be equated with the number of sites at low altitudes , sea-level and up to 15 m above sea level . |
| 24 | The school will be monitored by means of the number of passes at 7 , 11 , and 14 that it can record . |
| 25 | In Darlington the council calculates there are approximately 18,800 houses in the bottom band while the number of houses at the peak is negligible . |
| 26 | ALMOST half the number of residents at a Kirk old people 's home have been moved out to make more room for offices . |
| 27 | We have already emphasized the value of coins as evidence ; among other things they sometimes reveal the number of minters at work in a city , and so give us a hazy but valuable indication of the relative size of the towns of a kingdom . |
| 28 | It depends upon the weather and the number of visitors at the resorts , and greater flexibility is required than can be provided by simple fixed-term contracts . |
| 29 | Contemporary estimates for the period 1692 – 98 put the number of placemen at between 97 and 136 ( to which would have to be added receivers of unreported Crown pensions or bribes ) , a figure which may have risen to 200 by 1714 . |
| 30 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |