Example sentences of "in [art] number of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it was not in the number of hours that the factory system brought a new dimension . |
| 32 | An increase in real output per capita may not even increase potential economic welfare if it is accompanied by negative externalities , an increase in the number of hours worked or increased production of investment goods at the expense of consumer goods . |
| 33 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 34 | For instance , the considerable differences in the number of interactions ( compare , for example , the pseudonymous Claybourn and Greystock ) is partly a function of their length : a relatively tow number of interactions does not indicate prolonged periods of silence , and most teachers were interacting with children most of the time . |
| 35 | I express the hope that there will be a lessening in the number of challenges which are mounted against local authorities who are endeavouring , in extremely difficult circumstances , to perform their duties under the [ Homeless Persons Act with due regard for all their other housing problems . |
| 36 | Success in biomedical careers has long been associated with authorship of publications in peer reviewed journals , and this association may partly explain the exponential increase in the number of articles published over the past two decades . |
| 37 | In the case of an article written by five authors , for example , the availability of one extra slot may work to the advantage of a colleague whose goodwill is valued but whose involvement with the project had been only marginal ; such circumstances may help create a dip in the number of articles with five authors ( figs 2 and 4 ) which further accentuates the peak at six authors . |
| 38 | He will be pleased to know that the latest report of the railway inspectorate on railway safety showed a modest reduction in the number of collisions between passenger trains in 1990 compared with the previous year . |
| 39 | There has been a major increase over the last year in the number of disqualification proceedings taken out against directors , according to the Insolvency Service . |
| 40 | There was an increase of 20 per cent in the number of cycles completed per unit time after reorganisation from the conventional to the composite longwall system ( a cycle being the three processes of preparation , getting , and advancing ) , though they do note that , at the same time , better conveyors were introduced and on one face there was a change from hewing the coal to cutting it ( Trist et al. 1963 , 256 ) . |
| 41 | Later in the war , with the increase in the size of our bombing attacks against Germany and the corresponding increase in the number of prisoners , the camp 's character changed again . |
| 42 | The difference is double the increase in the number of abortions , and one abortion can not be considered to ‘ prevent ’ one live birth — a ratio of 3:1 is often assumed . |
| 43 | Premiums paid for life insurance and funds under management have risen more than five-fold to £14.5 billion and £224 billion respectively , despite there being only a 2m rise in the number of life insurance policies to 106m . |
| 44 | It recommends an increase in the number of part time training posts and allows for a resulting modest fall in the average number of whole time equivalents that doctors work . |
| 45 | Limits on tanker size , Shell says , will lead to an increase in the number of tankers and hence the chance of an accident . |
| 46 | The outbreak of the Gulf war in January 1991 produced a considerable rise in the number of conscripts seeking conscientious-objector status , including some who were already members of the armed forces [ see pp. 37941 ; 37989 ; 38199-200 ] . |
| 47 | These figures represent an increase in the number of girls on such courses , but a decline in the number of boys , in recent years . |
| 48 | Females are much less variable in the number of offspring they produce . |
| 49 | This is largely due to the increase in the number of module versions retained but it is also due to the overhead in the database management files controlling the database . |
| 50 | For all the rise in the number of births , and despite some medical advances , potential causes of a premature death were lurking around every corner , or sweeping the country in periodic epidemics ; especially vulnerable were the very young , the old and the infirm . |
| 51 | The large decline in the number of births in Britain between 1964 and 1976 led , in turn , to a decline in the number of school age children . |
| 52 | The decline of around 35 per cent in the number of births between 1964 and 1977 led rightly to a review of the provision of educational places . |
| 53 | This echoes the fluctuations in the number of births discussed in chapter 2 . |
| 54 | However , as figure 6.4 shows there was actually a small increase in the number of births to parents from social classes I and II over this period while births to parents in social classes III-V declined . |
| 55 | It was this that first prompted the forecasts that there would be a dramatic decline in demand for HE as a result of the decline in the number of births between 1965 and 1976 . |
| 56 | For instance , a nationwide rise in fertility rate would produce a much larger increase in the number of births in a recently developed new town with an above-average proportion of young couples than in a retirement area with a population of similar size . |
| 57 | All three components had a hand in producing the marked reduction in annual growth rate between the first half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s , but the dominant feature was the fall in the number of births . |
| 58 | September 's quarterly meeting brought the bad news of a fall in the number of boys — from 82 to 69 in a year — and a suggestion from the Headmaster that the year should be arranged in three terms as was elsewhere by then more usual — instead of in four quarters . |
| 59 | These figures represent an increase in the number of girls on such courses , but a decline in the number of boys , in recent years . |
| 60 | Field describes the increase in the number of junior doctors as temporary but fails to offer any mechanism to phase out these posts in the absence of appreciable expansion in the number of consultants . |