Example sentences of "of the number of [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially , these express the number of deaths occurring as a proportion of the number of people at risk in each region in such a way that they take into account the fact that regions have different age and sex distributions ; their construction will be explained fully in chapter 14 . |
| 2 | However the one dark shadow on our lives in those days was the alarming growth of the number of people with tuberculosis which affected the lungs . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the number of people in the United Kingdom who are economically active , unemployed and not receiving unemployment benefit . |
| 4 | The tax takes account of the number of people in households . |
| 5 | Yet it has already been argued that the marginal costs of the good will be a function of the number of people in the community , and therefore , relate to different numbers ( e.g. 100 , 200 , 300 residents in the community ) . |
| 6 | A spokesman stressed that the census is a record of the number of people in a town on census day . |
| 7 | Records of the number of staff on duty collected at the same time as the observational data show that , on average , the staff/client ratio in hospital wards was 1:3.5 , in special units 1:1.6 and in the houses 1:0.9 . |