Example sentences of "number [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odds against that number appearing are 4,096:1 . |
| 2 | Even in the rare instance that salmonella is found in an egg , a phenomenon known since at least 1913 , numbers detected are low ; usually fewer than 10 organisms . |
| 3 | The numbers employed are about 6,800 , ranging from 2,500 at Dartford , which is the Group 's major production site , 1,500 at the Wellcome Research Laboratories , Beckenham , to about 130 at Pirbright , Surrey , where further research programmes are carried out . |
| 4 | It can be concluded therefore that the action project appears to make a difference in terms of the length of time people are sustained at home , but only to a certain type of dementia sufferer , and the numbers affected are likely to be small unless a wide geographical area is covered . |
| 5 | Though the numbers affected are small colonoscopic biopsy and histological examination for dysplasia seems to hold no advantage over routine clinical management . |
| 6 | The numbers attending are still disappointing but I believe that it is fully justified if for no other reason than that it provides us with the best — and most cost effective — corporate publicity we are likely to obtain . |
| 7 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 8 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 9 | 20,000 cards detailing the phone numbers to call are now being distributed to farmers throughout Gloucestershire . |
| 10 | Transfer of micro-organisms from a surface at this stage is unlikely to be harmful as the numbers involved are too low to cause immediate infection and there is no time for multiplication on food . |
| 11 | Today a substantial winter population has re-established itself in both harbours and is still increasing ; there is little doubt that the numbers involved are now far greater than ever before . |
| 12 | The exact numbers involved are obscure , but Walpole-Bond 's account suggests a population of no more than five to 10 pairs at best , and breeding was not established as an annual occurrence . |
| 13 | The numbers involved are also set out in table 10.3 . |
| 14 | Furthermore rural unemployment rates are higher on average than those in towns , so that although it is less visible than urban unemployment , because the absolute numbers involved are so much smaller , rural unemployment has a significant effect in dampening down rural wage increases . |
| 15 | The numbers involved are large — nearly 1 million people are employed by the National Health Service alone — and the social services have to compete with industry , trade , other public services and , significant especially with doctors at the moment , the attractions of work abroad . |
| 16 | Examples of the numbers involved are shown in Table 10.5 . |
| 17 | The numbers involved are small in relation to the numbers of scientific papers published in journals . |
| 18 | The overall numbers involved are therefore not insubstantial . |
| 19 | We do acknowledge that the fatalities by the end of er by the end of December last year fatalities had increased in the county but that does , but that 's not really the figure that goes , go on because the numbers involved are actually quite small . |
| 20 | The numbers involved are about 700 and most of these job losses have now happened and indeed the bulk of them happened on the last Friday of the financial year which was last week when about 150 people took early retirement . |
| 21 | Now it , it does sound , ninety five per cent sound a lot , but the actual numbers involved are up from a hundred and twenty three to two hundred and forty . |
| 22 | However , the numbers recorded are always small , parties of more than 10 birds being exceptional ; single birds are frequently noted . |
| 23 | There were , it is true , plenty of tigers to hunt , but the numbers killed are almost unbelievable . |