Example sentences of "say [conj] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | While admitting the enormous truth of this statement , one could at the same time say that the number of song writers who never discover themselves is also enormous . |
| 2 | But you say that the number 's gone down . |
| 3 | Nick Moore , the head of the unit , says that the number of small firms involved in this area will continue to grow as a result , for instance , of researchers leaving universities with good ideas which they are anxious to commercialise . |
| 4 | THE Health and Safety Executive in East Anglia says that the number of people falling from heights at work is a ‘ cause for concern . ’ |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp says that the number of users of its Windows software now exceeds 25m and sales are still rising at over 1m copies a month , emphasising that the figure does not double-count users that have upgraded their to Windows 3.1 . |
| 6 | The National Criminal Justice Referral Service says that the number of car-jackings rose from 19,000 in 1991 to 25,000 last year . |
| 7 | The Chinese government says that the number of Taiwan-financed projects approved last year was greater than the 3,815 approved during 1983–91 . |
| 8 | The new deal says that the number of hours worked , as opposed to those on duty , should be reduced to 60 as soon as practicable . |
| 9 | Fujitsu says that the number of foreign users has tripled in recent months and that 21 groups outside Japan are linked to the computers . |
| 10 | Quite sure why , how somebody else says that the number of twenty six five termination suggests that peers will be dealing with more than one file each day , well , but that 's what the arithmetic says . |
| 11 | By the time Coleman died it was said that the number of veterinary surgeons practising in the three kingdoms fell little short of 1,000 . |
| 12 | It also has to be said that the number of residencies and placements have been severely curtailed recently by the cost-saving measures of many authorities and organisations . |
| 13 | From a longer-term perspective , it can be said that the number of transactions per day has shown no tendency to increase since the mid-1970s ; there was a surge in total number of transactions during 1987 and 1988 due to a large number of deals between the newly established market makers but both transactions on behalf of customers and intra-market business has fallen back since then . |
| 14 | Rangoon-based diplomats were reported as saying that the number of political detainees was much higher than the official figure . |
| 15 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 16 | Could you just give me an impression of what 's happened in the aviation industry over the past few weeks , because I think I am right in saying that the number of people flying actually has been drastically reduced . |
| 17 | He said that a number of vice-chancellors see the fees scheme as a way of getting the Government off the universities ' backs , giving them freedom from detailed control . |
| 18 | Fisons said that a number of the FDA 's statements need ‘ clarification ’ . |
| 19 | Byron said that a number of small machines would be used to start each vital organ going at the same time : one machine for the brain , another a heart-machine , another a kidney-machine , and so on . |
| 20 | Concentrating on the education of those over 16 , Mr Shuker said that a number of key factors had helped to shape future plans . |
| 21 | The company said that the number of people eating in its Chef & Brewer and Berni restaurants had fallen by about 10 per cent . |
| 22 | The company said that the number of people eating in its Chef & Brewer and Berni restaurants had fallen by about 10 per cent . |
| 23 | He said that the number of nuclear weapons at the disposal of the United Kingdom was not comparable with theirs and that , therefore , the matter was not worth discussion . |
| 24 | In his letter to me of 14 October , the Secretary of State said that the number of review applications would ’ have seriously impaired the ability of the Agency to deliver a proper service . ’ |
| 25 | He said that the number of those employed in such departments was cut drastically . |
| 26 | The Guardian of Dec. 1 reported that 21 people had been killed since the declaration of emergency ; opposition sources put the death toll at 50 , while government officials said that the number was closer to five . |
| 27 | The Commission published a report on competition policy on June 24 , 1991 , in which it said that the number of intra-EC mergers among larger companies had in 1990 for the first time exceeded that of purely national mergers . |
| 28 | On Jan. 3 , 1992 , the Burundi government stated that the number of deaths since the November uprising had risen to 551 , while the Rwandan authorities said that the number of refugees there had risen to 10,000 . |
| 29 | For many months now IBOA has been seeking details , from the Banks , of these additional staff and it is fair to say that the numbers actually employed are insignificant . |
| 30 | We are not trying to say that the number of deaths are going to increases substantially so that the population is not growing . |