Example sentences of "year the number of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Each year the number of working days lost will exceed , by a significant margin , those lost by strikes even in the very worst years of industrial unrest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Last year the number of bookings actually doubled , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Every year the number of two-wheelers grows by 100,000 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |