Example sentences of "in the number of births " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all the rise in the number of births , and despite some medical advances , potential causes of a premature death were lurking around every corner , or sweeping the country in periodic epidemics ; especially vulnerable were the very young , the old and the infirm . |
| 2 | The large decline in the number of births in Britain between 1964 and 1976 led , in turn , to a decline in the number of school age children . |
| 3 | The decline of around 35 per cent in the number of births between 1964 and 1977 led rightly to a review of the provision of educational places . |
| 4 | This echoes the fluctuations in the number of births discussed in chapter 2 . |
| 5 | However , as figure 6.4 shows there was actually a small increase in the number of births to parents from social classes I and II over this period while births to parents in social classes III-V declined . |
| 6 | It was this that first prompted the forecasts that there would be a dramatic decline in demand for HE as a result of the decline in the number of births between 1965 and 1976 . |
| 7 | For instance , a nationwide rise in fertility rate would produce a much larger increase in the number of births in a recently developed new town with an above-average proportion of young couples than in a retirement area with a population of similar size . |
| 8 | All three components had a hand in producing the marked reduction in annual growth rate between the first half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s , but the dominant feature was the fall in the number of births . |