Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] be in " in BNC.

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1 But I think that has now been tightened up and indeed the log of which I speak , and the audit manual has indeed increased the awareness of officers , increased their care in the handling of personal data , and the number of complaints is in fact reducing .
2 ISDN services outside the UK are available in Australia , Belgium , France , Germany , Japan , Holland , Sweden , Switzerland , and the US , where the largest number of connections are in place .
3 In some animals , a high proportion of the total number of genes is in fact never read .
4 good , er I think that 's right , in fact erm a large number of brochures were in fact on our list of documents
5 A number of papers are in preparation , including one to be presented by invitation of the American Statistical Association .
6 A far larger number of sets were in use than licence figures would suggest , but during and especially at the outset of the campaign for independence the number of newspaper readers exceeded that of radio listeners .
7 The number of responses is in itself a clear indication of the interest the Green Paper has aroused and the importance of the issues it has raised .
8 The benefits of this route could be substantial : about half of the Currie High roll comes from the Baberton and Juniper Green area , and when I carried out a survey , among parents , of travel to the school from these areas last year , a substantial number of families were in favour of opening up this path .
9 As Collier put it : " The greatest number of families were in a better economic position after the introduction of the factory system because of the increased earnings of women and children . "
10 Where the locality was suitable or where a number of mills were in close proximity to one another ( such as the Hicks/Hooper empire at Eastington ) it was still possible for a number of separate mills to be run together .
11 The most marked change however which is obviously connected with the smaller number of candidates is in the number of lost deposits which were only 35 against 64 .
12 This was made possible , in part , by the adoption by the Region of a written policy on closures stressing the desirability of only closing schools on educational grounds , provided that a minimum number of pupils was in attendance .
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