Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do the Government have figures for Scotland about the number of students involved and the cost to local authorities of trying to collect this tax ? |
| 2 | The claims and counter-claims of the NUM and the NCB regarding the number of strikers were the focus of much debate , but in general if not specific terms there is little doubt that MacGregor 's ( 1986 , p. 341 ) claims for January 1985 were accurate : |
| 3 | Group Vacation Courses are run in the month of July , starting any Monday for the number of weeks requested . |
| 4 | Rio , until recently synonymous with perpetual pleasure and carnival , now rivals Johannesburg and Lagos in the number of murders per 100,000 people . |
| 5 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 6 | In all cases the duration includes day of departure from U.K. and day or arrival in U.K. in the number of days specified . |
| 7 | There were reports from Carole Fuller on the number of congregants which had increased from 128 to 141 over the past ten months , and on the musical life of the church . |
| 8 | In February 1962 , Eddie McAteer asked Minister of Health and Local Government W. J. Morgan for the numbers of houses which the corporation and the NIHT expected to finish in Derry that year . |
| 9 | The size of the unit is the number of Goblins plus the number of Squigs . |