Example sentences of "the number of [adj] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curran 's arrival brings the number of new signings at Scarborough this week to five as boss Ray McHale looks ahead to next season . |
| 2 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
| 3 | And the longer the situation continues and the greater the number of vain attempts at dealing with it , the more stupid they feel . |
| 4 | Sources estimate the number of confiscated passports at around 33,000 . |
| 5 | A little later on , when all the relatives have gone home and the number of attentive friends at the time of the funeral has dwindled , it might be the time when the bereaved begin to reflect on their changed circumstances and try to evaluate how they feel both about themselves and the person who has died . |
| 6 | County councillors , however , claim it would reduce parental choice by restricting the number of 11-year-old pupils at Hummersknott . |
| 7 | THE number of mature students at both universities in Liverpool has rocketed in recent years . |
| 8 | erm The other parts of the job are that we do erm all of the fundamental and much of the applied research which the nation needs , we provide an increasing range of advanced courses in technology for people in industry , and continuing education generally , the number of mature students at all levels is rising , and there are a number of other service functions we do for the community as well as just teaching undergraduates . |
| 9 | The number of box-office successes at the cinema which have had crime as their central theme illustrates this vast interest — films such as The Godfather , The French Connection , The Sting , Butch Cassidy , Warriors , Scarface and many more you could name . |
| 10 | One report puts the number of British children at three , all from the same family . |
| 11 | On your graph you may find it easier , to start with , to leave the knit rows as blanks , then when you have more experience , you can use the punchcard method of simply writing the number of plain rows at the left-hand side . |
| 12 | He said that the number of nuclear weapons at the disposal of the United Kingdom was not comparable with theirs and that , therefore , the matter was not worth discussion . |
| 13 | Although the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees put the number of Liberian refugees at 80,000 , the government said that there were at least 200,000 [ see also pp. 37174 ; 37644 ] . |
| 14 | There s been increasing pressure on education authorities to reduce the number of empty places at schools , which means some village schools have had to combine or close altogether . |