Example sentences of "numbers of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I note the minister did n't give er the numbers of apprenticeships and there 's possibly a reason for that . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | An Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign recited that great numbers of persons : |
| 5 | Even with PAC data some assumptions would need to be made about numbers of persons per household if good population estimates were to be made . |
| 6 | The inhabitants of the village … are annoyed and their property and persons endangered by a practice which has prevailed of late years of great numbers of persons resorting from Brighton to Patcham under pretence of a holiday on palm Sunday filling the Ale Houses and Beer Shop , getting intoxicated , becoming riotous and creating disturbances in the village street . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Great Britain and Russia , for example , led in numbers of towns , but were very different societies . |
| 10 | A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) . |
| 11 | Hence most of the pressure on the armed forces to reduce their activities took the form of persistent downward revision of the numbers of men ( and rather limited numbers of women ) allocated to them . |
| 12 | This however ignores the fact that huge numbers of women are born into religious traditions , find their cultural identity within them , raise their families according to them . |
| 13 | Yet the numbers of women choosing not to marry receded in times of rising real wages , and the same conditions lowered the average age at marriage Hence , it is wise to remember that many women remained unmarried only because they did not have the means to start a new household with a husband . |
| 14 | The present generation — or ‘ cohort ’ — of elderly persons includes disproportionately large numbers of women . |
| 15 | But once you break that down and start to have lots of small independent production companies , then you find very many larger numbers of women and everyone can choose who they want to work with . |
| 16 | Large numbers of women still work in the non-formal sector and in agriculture , but this does not show up in statistics . |
| 17 | Which are the industries which employ large numbers of women ? |
| 18 | None of the arguments , she thought , held up to any serious analysis ; at best they provoked people into thought about housework , at worst they antagonised large numbers of women and hostility in all men and women who worked in the labour movement in any way . |
| 19 | The ‘ mythology of masculine reputation ’ suffuses the work place even though increasing numbers of women may be employed . |
| 20 | Certainly it was watched by a fair few housewives , posh farkers or not , with growing numbers of women around the country now tuning in for Paul Merton 's steadily increasing TV appearances . |
| 21 | Promoted by the ILP and the Women 's International League , Peace Crusade branches sprang up throughout Northern England and the Midlands , getting large numbers of women out onto the streets to demonstrate for peace negotiations , despite constant harassment from patriotic bystanders . |
| 22 | Because of the in-house nature of separatism , we saw the conferences as opportunities to disseminate our beliefs to huge numbers of women . |
| 23 | Despite large numbers of women professionals employed in mainstream print and broadcast media in Third World countries , they still tend to be concentrated in sex-stereotyped posts such as announcing or children 's programming , and are largely absent from management and decision-making positions . |
| 24 | Increased numbers of women were already working in manufactur-ing industry , and by the mid-1950s the process of ‘ upskilling ’ had begun in other sectors of the labour market . |
| 25 | The minutes of the ETS executive committee , available only up to 1875 , while periodically recording the numbers of women compositors with some anxiety , are more concerned with the pressing problem of money and sliding membership . |
| 26 | In 1899 , the authors of an article in the Economic Journal estimated the total numbers of women compositors outside Scotland as about 300 , of whom 225 were employed ill firms in the London region , another 35 in two other firms , and the rest scattered in small houses employing single numbers . " |
| 27 | There were certainly women employed in Aberdeen , and instances were also reported in Falkirk and Glasgow in the 1880s , and in Perth in the 1890s , where the numbers of women were at least such as to be reduced by seventeen " . |
| 28 | There may just have been some hope of effecting change through organization , especially when the numbers of women were still low ( about 300 at the end of the 18805 ) , though the means chosen were not welcomed by the rank and file of the men 's union . |
| 29 | Such was not apparently the view of the bulk of the membership however , and the chance was lost to try an experiment in creating greater unity while the numbers of women were still comparatively low . |
| 30 | As time went on , after 1910 , and the numbers of women dwindled , those who were left grew old together . |