Example sentences of "number of [noun] [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports from Tehran on 22 September told of an attack that day on the city 's Mehrabad airport , which , like a number of others around the world , was used partly for civil and partly for military purposes . |
| 2 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 3 | He is an internationally recognised expert in the economic and traffic impact of large developments , having presented and published a number of papers around the world . |
| 4 | Thus redefined , the number of slaves in the world is now greater than it was 150 years ago . |
| 5 | ‘ The number of containers in the world is going to double , ’ he predicts . |
| 6 | In fact this is already happening , quite fast , in a number of companies throughout the world . |
| 7 | ( The number of illiterates in the world was estimated at 1,000 million , including some 35 per cent of all women . ) |
| 8 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , a number of countries around the world are in recession , are heading towards recession or are coming out of recession . |
| 9 | There are , in fact only a limited number of sites in the world with sufficient tide range to make such schemes cost effective . |
| 10 | The number of peoples in the world who knew of these advantages and nevertheless persisted in rejecting them were few : to do so required a tenacity of purpose , an indifference to wealth and comfort which were not given to many . |
| 11 | But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love . |
| 12 | That is , it is possible to hold as true a number of theories about the world , it being impossible to choose between them on strictly evidential grounds . |
| 13 | These include $1 billion-plus mandates for Hanson Overseas BV , Chrysler , IBM , Tele-Communications Inc ( in two issues ) , the World Bank , and a number of governments around the world . |
| 14 | To do this , I must rely on the truth of a number of facts about the world , and about the optical properties of my eyes . |
| 15 | Finally , we need to continue to recognize that paraprofessional social service jobs are a way out of poverty , unemployment , underemployment and other forms of deprivation for large numbers of people around the world . |
| 16 | Now you may think that the number of people in this category here is very minimal , but there 's increasing numbers of people around the world travelling now who are motivated by things like this . |