Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion that an enzyme might exist in a number of forms decided purely on probability is anathema to many scientists . |
| 2 | The number of births had simply decreased and the great cities began to empty . |
| 3 | This entailed the loss of about 3,000 posts with some universities shedding 25 per cent of their staff ; some departments were closed and a number of institutions came close to bankruptcy . |
| 4 | The number of accounts faltered slightly after the crash , and appear to have settled at around 4.8 million . |
| 5 | If a number of investments did n't go wrong we would n't be taking sufficient risks . |
| 6 | The number of teams doubled again — as did the money raised — the third year it was held . |
| 7 | Straight after the event a number of teams came forward offering materials to assist in the construction of a new raft . |
| 8 | A number of programs followed rapidly in PageMaker 's footprints but none of those launched for the Macintosh has ever come close to either challenging PageMaker 's lead or to matching its intuitive user interface . |
| 9 | Fourth , and in some places a reversal of the previous trend , the number of hedgerow trees had either declined less rapidly or even started to increase ( apart from major losses due to Dutch Elm disease as in Warwickshire ) , and in particular the number of saplings had markedly increased . |
| 10 | The number of sheep fell slightly , the first fall for many years . |
| 11 | Not only trees but almost all groups of animals and plants exhibit their greatest variety in the tropics in terms of the number of species recorded there . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 14 | From about 1780 onwards , the population grew so steadily and so rapidly that by 1950 the number of inhabitants had again increased by seven times . |
| 15 | The probability of selecting the original address had been proportional to the number of electors originally on the register ; this was a sensible procedure if the number of electors had not changed . |
| 16 | After 1893 the number of cases dropped sharply , though there was some recovery after 1901 . |
| 17 | Washing blew on most garden lines , and a number of toddlers played together in the road , jumping in a big puddle to the detriment of their clothes and their obvious delight . |
| 18 | Most of the university and polytechnic libraries replied to the survey but only a small number of colleges did so . |
| 19 | The number of boys fluctuated around 100 , but the School at last seemed to have become viable , a credit balance appearing in the accounts for the first time . |
| 20 | The number of placements had marginally increased by 1981 to 40 . |
| 21 | In Nelson , three miles away , an equal number of women went out to work , yet the infant mortality rate was lower than in John Burns ' own constituency of Battersea . |
| 22 | Both the taxi driver and the privatizer of the police force failed to get a place on the candidates ' list , and the small number of women did proportionately better than the men . |
| 23 | A number of communities drew up counter-addresses in opposition to the High Church ones . |
| 24 | Between 1947 and 1992 the number of companies grew fivefold to 1.1m . |
| 25 | Unlike the mornings , the number of titles remained much the same , but total circulation fell . |
| 26 | In the nineteenth century , the number of bishoprics increased considerably and a limit was imposed upon the number entitled to sit , ( e.g. , by the Bishoprics Act 1878 ) . |
| 27 | The Compton census figures probably understate the strength of Nonconformity , but it is clear that the number of adherents did not rise dramatically until the Evangelical Revival of the later-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 28 | Huy understood why he had been dropped here , from where a large number of roads led off back to the various parts of the city , but guessed that they had underestimated his knowledge of the twisting muddle of streets that formed the harbour quarter . |
| 29 | Yet the total number of farmsteads built out in the fields between the villages is very small . |
| 30 | Delegates were informed that an encouraging number of responses had already been received to the search for sponsoring organisations , and there was every prospect that the chair would be established in 1992 . |