Example sentences of "year the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selwyn was the smallest of the colleges of the University , also its students lived in , and during my three years the number of students never exceeded 150 . |
| 2 | On the other hand , in the past few years the number of students in further education colleges in Wales has increased very considerably . |
| 3 | In the following years the number of papers rose , culminating in sixteen in 1988 ( during which Pons wrote 36 papers but still none relating to test-tube fusion ) . |
| 4 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
| 5 | In the last couple of years the number of connections for fax terminals alone has doubled , and is now around a million — and that 's just in the UK . |
| 6 | In recent years the number of initiatives have been increasing rapidly with development concentrated in deprived urban communities . |
| 7 | In February 1974 a mobile library service was inaugurated and at the end of its first ten years the number of books lent should have grown to nearly twenty times as many . |
| 8 | For the last three years the number of fires recorded during the Amazon burning season , July to October , has fallen , partly because of government action and partly because the economic slump has affected cattle ranchers and farmers . |
| 9 | Mr Milburn said latest figures showed that over the last three years the number of patients removed from waiting lists without having received treatment had increased 145pc . |
| 10 | Two thirds of all JS employees are women , and last year the number of women managers increased by 300 to more than 5,600 , representing more than 40% of the total management . |
| 11 | This academic year the number of students per firm has increased to eight and we are collaborating with the department of oncology at the Whittington Hospital , which undertakes a fifth of the teaching . |
| 12 | In the same broadcast , Erman announced government proposals to cut armed forces numbers from an estimated 75,000 to 55,000 and to reduce the period of conscription from a year to six months , although in the current year the number of conscripts called up was expected to be doubled . |
| 13 | Following the appointment of Jacques Chirac as Prime Minister in March , French broadcasting developed on radically more commercial lines : TFI , the national TV channel with traditionally the largest market share , was privatized ( spring 1986–87 ) ; in the following year the number of brands advertising on TFI doubled , the maximum authorized advertising minutes per hour — all six channels take advertising — rose to 12.3 In Britain , Conservative governments introduced commercial television in 1954–5 , and outlined broadcasting policies ( in the November 1988 white paper ) that would facilitate the development of commercial channels broadcasting by ( cable and ) satellite . |
| 14 | as if to make up for this , in the fourth year the number of teacher-days shot up to 1,254 , an amount of time exceeded only by courses devoted to specific professional roles . |
| 15 | Last year the number of bookings actually doubled , ’ he added . |
| 16 | Every year the number of two-wheelers grows by 100,000 . |
| 17 | In a single year the number of awards available from SERC for students on such courses increased fivefold to 1000 , as part of the IT Initiative . |
| 18 | Erm in the following year the number of applications went up by something over twenty percent up to fifty four , but the total fee income fell slightly . |
| 19 | Liechtenstein 's economic performance during 1990 was less strong in the second half of the year but by the end of the year the number of jobs had nevertheless grown to 19,905 , an increase of 3.2 per cent as compared with 1989 . |