Example sentences of "of the number of [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think in this day and age , there is probably a greater propensity to move and consequently there may well be an increased erm amount of vacancies occurring and that was why in our statement , we actually increased the number of vacancies , but I think that is a function of the number of houses on offer at the time . |
| 2 | Mr Eggar said : ‘ This has been the largest round , in terms of the number of blocks on offer , since the fourth round in 1972 . |
| 3 | The morning journey , in spite of the number of students on board the tram , was usually quiet . |
| 4 | It seems unfortunate , to say the least , that the premier public sector institution , in terms of the number of students on advanced courses , should , for a variety of historical and political reasons , have been denied any share in teacher training . |
| 5 | If you 're knitting a round neck and have stitches held on waste yarn , you should make a note of the number of stitches on waste as you knit them off . |
| 6 | Over these years the size of special employment programmes increased substantially , largely as a consequence of a tripling of the number of places on the Community Programme . |
| 7 | To this end he makes periodic counts , from the issue records , of the number of books on loan in each category . |
| 8 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |
| 9 | in word processing , the automatic adjustment of the number of words on a line of text to match the margin settings . |
| 10 | Even as a proportion of the number of workers on strike for two weeks or more , the figures are still very small — 4.4 per cent in 1965 and 36.8 per cent in 1971 , the year of the post office workers ' strike . |