Example sentences of "number involve [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after 1857 , when divorce came easier , the numbers involved were not large , averaging about 600 per year up to the start of the First World War . |
| 2 | The Bible account makes it plain that the numbers involved were considerable . |
| 3 | Note also from table 10.2 ( last figure in fifth row ) that it is not totally unheard of for couples to share the rearing of their children by both working part-time , but the number involved was minute — 9000 in the whole of England and Wales in 1981 . |
| 4 | Transfer of micro-organisms from a surface at this stage is unlikely to be harmful as the numbers involved are too low to cause immediate infection and there is no time for multiplication on food . |
| 5 | Today a substantial winter population has re-established itself in both harbours and is still increasing ; there is little doubt that the numbers involved are now far greater than ever before . |
| 6 | The exact numbers involved are obscure , but Walpole-Bond 's account suggests a population of no more than five to 10 pairs at best , and breeding was not established as an annual occurrence . |
| 7 | The numbers involved are also set out in table 10.3 . |
| 8 | Furthermore rural unemployment rates are higher on average than those in towns , so that although it is less visible than urban unemployment , because the absolute numbers involved are so much smaller , rural unemployment has a significant effect in dampening down rural wage increases . |
| 9 | The numbers involved are large — nearly 1 million people are employed by the National Health Service alone — and the social services have to compete with industry , trade , other public services and , significant especially with doctors at the moment , the attractions of work abroad . |
| 10 | Examples of the numbers involved are shown in Table 10.5 . |
| 11 | The numbers involved are small in relation to the numbers of scientific papers published in journals . |
| 12 | The overall numbers involved are therefore not insubstantial . |
| 13 | We do acknowledge that the fatalities by the end of er by the end of December last year fatalities had increased in the county but that does , but that 's not really the figure that goes , go on because the numbers involved are actually quite small . |
| 14 | The numbers involved are about 700 and most of these job losses have now happened and indeed the bulk of them happened on the last Friday of the financial year which was last week when about 150 people took early retirement . |
| 15 | Now it , it does sound , ninety five per cent sound a lot , but the actual numbers involved are up from a hundred and twenty three to two hundred and forty . |
| 16 | Prior to 1938 this goose wintered regularly in Chichester Harbour and possibly in Pagham Harbour , but little information about the numbers involved is available . |
| 17 | There is no problem with the calculation and both answers are the same because the maximal precision of any of the numbers involved is two , i.e. well within the capabilities of the machine . |