Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a number of programs running at one time , several windows can appear on the screen at one time . |
| 2 | Other events which contributed to the decline of the madeira wine industry were the American Civil War ( which meant a temporary loss of the American market ) and the opening of the Suez Canal ( which meant a reduction in the number of ships calling at Madeira ) . |
| 3 | In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people . |
| 4 | Even after legislative efforts to remove some of the anomalies , the complexity of the system was apparent in the number of authorities existing at a local level . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | These are the first answers given , but in reply to further questions the number of women making at least one negative reference increases to twenty-seven — sixty-eight per cent of the sample . |
| 7 | In other words it provides the context , but the actual shape and form of local politics is the outcome of a whole number of processes operating at both the local and the national level . |
| 8 | The idea behind Windows is to have a number of processes running at one time , each in its own clearly defined area of the screen — and for the purposes of this review , I 'm counting Program Groups as tiny processes . |
| 9 | The second measure of objective risk is that used by Watts and Quimby ( 1980 ) , the total number of accidents occurring at a junction divided by the average traffic flow at the junction . |
| 10 | The logarithm of the number of men having at least s units of solidity will at first fall linearly with s , then more rapidly as it approaches the fixed upper limit of 1000 papers , beyond which no man has achieved . ’ |
| 11 | Family Membership ( £10.50 ) covers two adults and any number of children living at the same address this new category needs to be publicised . |
| 12 | THE shops are full and estate agents report a healthy upsurge in the number of people looking at properties . |
| 13 | This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper . |
| 14 | The Government 's proposals for transferring further education colleges to a new independent sector are designed to increase the number of people studying at those colleges and to improve opportunities for all in further education . |
| 15 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 16 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 17 | Such a surface therefore consists of a large number of tubes emerging at a fine angle so as to present an array of slanting holes . |
| 18 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |