Example sentences of "about the number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
| 2 | He said he was not suggesting that Mrs Swami had tried deliberately to mislead the jury about the number of beatings . |
| 3 | In the Gulf of Maine , commercial mackerel fishermen have kept silent for years about the number of harbour porpoises dying in their nets . |
| 4 | The government shares John 's concern about the number of guns in nervous hands . |
| 5 | Now , although the polls have only just closed , I think that , on the basis of a sample of the replies to our invitations , we can make a projection about the number of people coming to this party and also say something about the ‘ social mix ’ . |
| 6 | Something struck him as odd about the number of books cited for the new library . |
| 7 | The reports of the Commissioner provide some information about the number of warrants in force albeit that they are incomplete . |
| 8 | They did , however have unrealised expectations about the number of clients for whom they would need to provide paid support workers even though they predicted that they would not find it necessary to provide such carers for ail clients . |
| 9 | The UK government is concerned about the number of deaths caused by careless driving while unfit because of excessive alcohol consumption , and a recent White Paper , The Road User and the Law , recommends among other things , that this offence should carry obligatory disqualification from driving for at least 2 years , an unlimited fine and a maximum penalty of 5 years ' imprisonment ( Lowry , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | Yet in most countries there is continuing concern about the number of patients who develop a hospital-acquired infection quite unrelated to the reason for their admission ; about the accidents which happen to patients while they are in hospital ; about the perennial danger of fire in hospitals ; and about the dangers associated with the use of prescribed drugs in hospital . |
| 11 | Of course one needs to exercise some common sense about the number of objectives written for any one piece of teaching , but if teaching sessions are seen as part of a series for a given student then objectives can be written for the whole series . |
| 12 | However , half-dozen such lines would be more than the ‘ patience ’ argument could comfortably dismiss , and this is about the number of good alignments that are known at present . |
| 13 | Also , in contrast to the golden years of the multi-racial , multilingual , multi-ethnic Commonwealth , Poland was unhappy about the number of non-Poles who now resided within its borders . |
| 14 | If a child brings in his birthday cards , then the teacher might explore his interest by talking with him about the number of cards , the pictures ( colours , sizes , what 's happening , etc. ) , the shape and size of the cards , and the number symbol . |
| 15 | About the number of authors who write that ‘ the Champagne vineyards are confined to the belemnite-rich chalk and that the lower beds , where belemnites are lacking , produce inferior grapes which are never used for Champagne ’ , he comments : ‘ They infer that the Campanian has some special but undefined property which makes it superior for vine-growing . |
| 16 | Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported . |
| 17 | The data about the number of audit firm partners ( defined under the audit regulations as ‘ responsible individuals ' ) was obtained from the computerised public audit register as at November 1992 and from the institutes ' lists of members . |
| 18 | Work from the example and stages shown here , and be very disciplined about the number of flowers you use in each picture . |
| 19 | Match-wise , Botha admitted : ‘ We have to do something ourselves about the number of penalties we are conceding . |
| 20 | A decision might have to be made about the number of elderly people for which it is possible to take responsibility in any one family . |
| 21 | ‘ Graham talked about the number of one-day games and about not having too many players of over 35 , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ? |
| 23 | The doctor had been requested , under the provisions of a recent Act for the treatment of mental deficiency , to furnish a report about the number of such inmates who were suitable for treatment in a separate institution — he was able to identify five such patients , whose ages ranged from 13 to 25 years . |
| 24 | Over the past year or so , there has been growing concern about the number of cheques being stolen in the post . |
| 25 | The National Council for One-Parent Families is , understandably , concerned about the number of one-parent family children who go into substitute care , arguing that they are more vulnerable to separation because the help they need is often withheld . |
| 26 | They have reported what they know about the number of minke whales in the sea , but have made no recommendation as to how many of them might safely be slaughtered — or ‘ harvested ’ in the unpleasant terminology of the whalers . |
| 27 | Similar conclusions can be drawn about the number of jobs held in an average career but there remain marked differences according to age , educational background , gender and size of firm . |
| 28 | The only national data about the number of carers is available from the 1985 General Household Survey of this topic ( Green 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Then he gave lots of statistics about the number of Christians killed by Mohammedans , and vice versa . ’ |
| 30 | The manager obtains information about the number of learners available to provide service for each week of the year . |