Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 In fact the numbers of anemones on a reef location control the population of clownfish to be found there .
6 This set will finally give us the numbers of vibrations of each symmetry species .
7 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 .
8 The numbers of cattle in these herds are
9 Determination of the type of supplier required , having regard for such factors as delivery arrangements , credit agreements , the need for technical support and the administrative convenience of single source supply , plus the supply area will considerably reduce the numbers of suppliers to be approached .
10 % max. with zygomatic : the numbers of maxillae with part of the zygomatic process remaining compared with the total number of maxillae in the sample ( given in the appendix ) .
11 That means that we are locked into issuing fire certificates since we rely on the and it imposes a marked official erm , performance target on us , we ca n't afford to let the numbers of inspections of supported defences drop , so that means that we 've got to find money from elsewhere in the budget .
12 Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs in the town and contacting non-payers by telephone .
13 Attempts have also been made in the past to limit rather than protect the numbers of offers for particular combinations ( e.g. English literature and history of art ) to maintain a good spread of students .
14 The fact that so many do publish , as evidenced by the numbers of papers in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists , or Geophysical Prospecting , indicates the close ties between their current work , and the need to advance their careers by publishing papers related to that work , rather than to their previous research .
15 The fact that so many do publish , as evidenced by the numbers of papers in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists , or Geophysical Prospecting , indicates the close ties between their current work , and the need to advance their careers by publishing papers related to that work , rather than to their previous research .
16 If , simultaneously , the short-term frequency increases , but the numbers of citations per paper decreases , then the research group has reached the subject 's saturation limit , and consideration should be given to levelling-off or reducing funding for these projects .
17 Midorikawa calculates half-life on the basis that it is the period during which the numbers of citations from a journal , j , is half of the total found in a particular annual volume of that journal .
18 The numbers of students at the colleges of education grew rapidly in the late 1960s , reaching a total of 114,000 by 1972 .
19 The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses .
20 Twenty nine in the class so what I 'd like to know is erm draw the Venn diagram and find out the numbers of students in every section of the diagram .
21 In the meantime , the numbers of students in public sector institutions undertaking CNAA validated courses continue to grow steadily .
22 Taken together , therefore , these new courses and the DMS represent relatively little decline overall in the numbers of students in the maintained sector pursuing post-experience management education in the last few years .
23 P and the numbers of students in the groups found to be as follows :
24 But the numbers of accidents on local roads within the residential neighbourhoods are on average less than one quarter of the total in the area and more comprehensive treatment is not cost effective on safety grounds alone . ’
25 They 've set up , increased the numbers of discs in the library in the workshop er , there 's no increasing them up here cos there 's , we need to buy a computer , but certainly up and in the workshop and in the library .
26 This Meeting , taking also into Consideration the numbers of Complaints against makers & sellers of yearn in Isla , hereby appoint that a Mercat for yearn shall be held at Bowmore on the first Tuesday of March yearly , and on such other days as they afterwards shall appoint , And hereby ordain the Clerk to make advertisments for the different Parish Kirks .
27 The numbers of studies of this area are lower than those of more northerly tracts , and this should suggest that further work in a variety of sub-disciplines be carried out here .
28 The numbers of tumours at each site were predetermined according to the approximate frequency of presentation at that primary site .
29 Recent decades have seen significant increases in the numbers of offences of violence reported to , and recorded by , the police .
30 The numbers of Indians at stations did indeed become an index of the distance the American traveller had journeyed westwards .
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