Example sentences of "[prep] the number of children [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ? |
| 2 | Women of different ages were asked about the number of children in the ‘ ideal family ’ . |
| 3 | But it reveals that a shortage of staff to deal with the removal of youngsters from the register gives a ‘ totally inaccurate picture ’ of the number of children at risk of abuse . |
| 4 | For instance , the value of the total toy market is a function of the number of children of the relevant ages , the access of these children ( as permitted by their parents ) to retail outlets , and industry or market research figures for per capita expenditure per child on toys , suitably adjusted for inflation , increased in personal disposable income ( etc ) . |
| 5 | The school at present has no spare classroom space and no likelihood of the number of children in decreasing . |
| 6 | And then the long-term ones are to do with demography , with the birth rate , with the number of children in schools which , as most people are probably aware , have gone down dramatically in the last decade . |
| 7 | There may be a gain in the number of children at the school but this could well have happened through factors such as population change or a new housing development that are totally unconnected to the work on raising the school 's visibility and image . |
| 8 | The number of children at the school may have dropped considerably either through competition from other schools or through a fall in the number of children of school age in the neighbourhood . |
| 9 | These closures have to be seen in the context of changes in the number of children of primary school age ; this is illustrated in Figure 5.7 , using data for England . |
| 10 | These closures have to be seen in the context of changes in the number of children of secondary school age ; this is illustrated in Figure 5.11 , using data for England . |
| 11 | DoH figures reveal a 65 per cent increase in the number of children between ten and 14 years old admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 12 | Basically there 's a decline in the number of children during this period , people under the age of sixteen , by around about eleven percent . |
| 13 | What is likely to happen in the future to the number of children in the Hebrides ? |
| 14 | They have been fighting to keep their current size for more than three years , claiming that they wish to keep the school open to all-comers , rather than limit it to the number of children in Episcopalian families . |
| 15 | There is no limit to the number of children in a family who may hold an Assisted Place and parental contributions are reduced when there is more than one holder in a family . |
| 16 | These forecasts will be based on information on the number of children in a school augmented by headteachers ' estimates . |