Example sentences of "in [art] number of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | On Feb. 24 Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the national conference , indicated that Nguza had abandoned the round table idea but was still expected to demand a reduction in the number of delegates to the conference . |
| 62 | Again from Criminal Statistics ( 1988 ) we see that there has been an increase in the number of offences cleared up by the police , between 1979 and 1988 of 27.3 per cent ( from 980,700 to 1,248,900 ) . |
| 63 | The normalisation process may well lead to an increase in the number of entities in the model . |
| 64 | One cause of overcrowding in contemporary prisons , not only in Texas , has been the rise in the number of sentences of imprisonment imposed by the courts . |
| 65 | Statistics for the years 1975 to 1987 show an 18 per cent drop in the number of visitors to the palaces , while the National Trust has seen a 48 per cent rise . |
| 66 | This was partly the result of a gift of £1 million from the Emir of Kuwait , along with a rise in the number of visitors which has generated around £.5 million . |
| 67 | Probably the largest railway museum in the world — and certainly the most comprehensive — it is experiencing a healthy increase in the number of visitors , especially from York itself . |
| 68 | They say a reduction in the number of visitors could put many traders out of business . |
| 69 | In their recent survey , Goacher et al ( 1988 ) showed that 76 per cent of LEAs recorded a ‘ substantial increase ’ in the number of welfare assistants/non-teaching auxiliaries and 65 per cent indicated that this was an area attracting priority finding . |
| 70 | The conclusion to be drawn from these analyses is that whereas in some States , mainly in the northeastern United States , governments are generous both in the number of welfare recipients and in the amount of support allocated , those in others , mainly in the South , are much less generous . |
| 71 | STATISTICS released yesterday reveal that the continuing fall in the number of horses in training is now jeopardising the future of the entire racing industry . |
| 72 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 73 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 74 | Ciba-Geigy runs company management courses and in recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of women in these courses . |
| 75 | There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics . |
| 76 | Finally , we should note the healthy expansion in the number of women candidates — exceeding 25% for the first time in the metropolitan authorities . |
| 77 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 78 | Similarly , the increasing employment of women in the growing sector of food , drink and tobacco manufacture by the end of the century , and even the dramatic growth in the number of women commercial clerks ( 4,467 in Edinburgh by 1911 , compared to only 366 in 1881 ) did little to alter the fact that in Scotland generally ( perhaps rather more than England in the same period ) there was a very clear division of the labour market and a de facto segregation of " men 's work " from " women 's work " , which would face any girl looking for her first job . |
| 79 | Would an increase in the number of women choosing to study physical science and engineering result in greater equality for women ? |
| 80 | However , one of the most significant trends of the last three decades has been a steady growth in the number of women in the labour force . |
| 81 | Instead , there was a steady growth in the number of women in employment in Britain . |
| 82 | Two other features of the election were the large number of new members elected ( around two-thirds ) and the further rise in the number of women members ( up from 63 to 77 ) . |
| 83 | Here , there was from the 1740s a considerable expansion in the number of women working at the surface , for from then to the 1850s the mining of copper was of greater importance than tin and , as was pointed out in 1810 , " the copper mines when in full working employ a good number of women and children who are useless about tin " . |
| 84 | There has been a marked increase in the number of women working in isolated areas and the G M B has been campaigning for improvements in safety on public transport , a campaign which must continue . |
| 85 | Broadly speaking , the increase in the postsynaptic response generated at potentiated synapses could be due to ( 1 ) presynaptic modifications which result in an increase in the amount of L-glutamate released per impulse , ( 2 ) postsynaptic modifications , such as an increase in the number of receptors or a change in their functional characteristics , ( 3 ) an extrasynaptic change , such as a reduction in uptake of L-glutamate by glial cells leading to increased neurotransmitter availability at the receptors , or ( 4 ) morphological modifications . |
| 86 | Table 23.4 shows how the restriction of the sample to harem holding males in red deer reduces estimates of daily variation in the number of females held . |
| 87 | He 's witnessed a substantial fall in the number of offenders appearing in his Ashford court . |
| 88 | What is the percentage increase in the number of choc ices in the pack ? |
| 89 | One major example has been the rise in the number of groups some more organized than others — representing communities or neighbourhoods , mainly within the context of local politics . |
| 90 | The company facilitated the aggregation of vast sums of capital from numerous small investors and this together with changes in technology and organizational techniques led to a vast expansion in the size of the firm and a reduction in the number of firms operating in any particular industry . |