Example sentences of "in number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm Watters , senior careers tutor , careers , said : ‘ There is considerable local and national concern about the drop in number of students applying to study physics at advanced level in sixth form colleges . |
| 2 | Increase in number of deputies |
| 3 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 4 | The use of a Court Scheme means that opposition minorities have to muster only just over 25 per cent of the voting rights ( or a simple majority in number of shareholders ) to frustrate the takeover . |
| 5 | If these reactions are carried out at constant volume changes in number of moles of gas with change in gas pressure which can be measured using a manometer . |
| 6 | Usually , as in most Italian towers , the window and belfry openings increased in number of lights as the stages ascended — commonly from one to five . |
| 7 | The Cathedral , begun 1160 , has a beautiful Romanesque façade ( 1196–1204 ) with a narthex , galleried and arcaded with screen gable and , beside it , a tall bell tower with typical Italian openings , increasing in number of lights towards the top . |
| 8 | When our locals assessed success story , the Nissan Plant , sells less cars , it 's an economic threat and could become an economic disaster , when the plant sells more cars , it adds to the increase in number of cars on the roads which represents a pollution threat and contributes to a pollution disaster , let alone traffic problems of course . |
| 9 | The worldwide workstation market grew 9.9% last year to reach $9,540m , International Data Corp reckons : the Framingham , Massachusetts-based research outfit judges that Sun Microsystems Inc took 38% by value , Hewlett-Packard Co had 17.4% , Digital Equipment Corp 11.1% and IBM Corp 7% ; DEC was the big loser , dipping 14.5% by value and 3.6% in number of units shipped . |
| 10 | However , there appear to be no obvious reasons for the variation in number of libraries in total , or their divisional spread . |
| 11 | The duration of holidays is described in number of days . |
| 12 | Sharp rise in number of pupils being excluded |
| 13 | What is the average sentence length ( in number of words ) ? |
| 14 | Both Table 7 and Table 8 show a significant increase in number of words recognised as the level of processing increases . |
| 15 | Restrictions on low-level flying — Reduction in number of troops taking part in " Autumn Forge " |
| 16 | Between 1678 and 1710 , for instance , the peasant population of Siberia , counted in number of households ( dvory ) , increased by almost 50 per cent , while that of Moscow province alone declined by 27 per cent . |
| 17 | Figure 7.2 Change in number of households : observed and standardized , England and Wales , 1961–81 |
| 18 | Figure 7.3 Percentage change in number of households : observed and standardized , England and Wales , 1961–81 |
| 19 | This makes military research and development by far the most important scientific activity — important in numbers of scientists involved and money spent ; it is also the most important in that it threatens the annihilation of more people than any other human activity . |
| 20 | He claimed that the actual increase in numbers of cases granted legal aid was only 5 per cent this year — from 271,759 to 288,000 — and cited a Scottish Office report on spending plans which forecast a peak in claims in 1992-93 , followed by a decline . |
| 21 | There is no single reason for the rise in numbers of claims . |
| 22 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 23 | The company lags behind Bell and Sikorsky in numbers of helicopters delivered annually , but has a backlog of 165 orders for the MD500 series and 240 ‘ certificates of interest ’ for the Explorer , though only four firm orders . |
| 24 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 25 | The four owl species , barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , and Verreaux eagle owl , are grouped in category 1 ( Table 3.14 ) which is characterized by consistently low enamel digestion on the molars of microtines and other rodents , both in degree and in numbers of teeth affected , with no alteration on insectivore teeth . |
| 26 | Most estates were assessed in numbers of hides ( roughly 70,000 – 80,000 in all ) , units used in the allocation of public burdens which might be military , as in 1008 , when every 300 hides provided a ship and every eight a helmet and byrnie ( mail-coat ) for the navy , or financial , with each hide taxed at a particular rate . |
| 27 | Commentators regarded the raids and the increase in numbers of soldiers as measures clearly designed to placate Jewish settlers in the West Bank . |
| 28 | As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale . |
| 29 | Great Britain and Russia , for example , led in numbers of towns , but were very different societies . |
| 30 | Notice that the relationship expressed in Table 5 can be written algebraically as follows : where NI is the firm 's net investment measured in numbers of machines , D , is the current demand for the firm 's product and D t is last year 's demand for the firm 's product . |