Example sentences of "the number of [adj] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seminaries can not cope with the number of young men wanting to enter . |
| 2 | ‘ Young women interested in the car or motorbike projects are put off by the number of young men , ’ says Hackney project worker Berverlin McKenzie . |
| 3 | She had been so young and ignorant then ; the most important thing in life had been the number of young men who were anxious to dance the opening quadrille with her . |
| 4 | I was astonished , for instance , at the number of married men and women who contacted us . |
| 5 | Stewart also implies that our statement could be based upon the ‘ impressive 30% drop in the number of homosexual men serotesting positively for HIV in late 1987 to early 1988 ’ . |
| 6 | The survey looks at changes in the number of medical men in practice during this period , and at their career structures , training , qualifications , practices and appointments . |
| 7 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |