Example sentences of "the number of [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of using contract hire to increase the number of lorries in the Meet without a huge outflow of capital reserves deserves careful consideration . |
| 2 | Thus redefined , the number of slaves in the world is now greater than it was 150 years ago . |
| 3 | The number of managers in the NHS increased nearly three-fold from 1989 – 91 , and the number of administrative staff increased by 10 per cent ( Guardian 1993 ) , while investment in new information systems will run into millions of pounds ( Hughes and Bayes 1991 ) . |
| 4 | It is usually desirable to leave old words as they are , since hymnody is governed by the number of syllables in the line as well as by rhyming verse . |
| 5 | 1 to give practice in preserving a stress pattern despite an increase in the number of syllables in the rhythmic group : Teacher Poll 's doll was sick , sick , sick . |
| 6 | The number of syllables in the word . |
| 7 | If true , we might expect male peeking rates to increase as the number of females in the flock increase . |
| 8 | However , one of the most significant trends of the last three decades has been a steady growth in the number of women in the labour force . |
| 9 | I am delighted to repeat that the number of women in the top grades of the civil service is improving all the time and they , of course , will be the permanent secretaries of the future . |
| 10 | The number of women in the Assembly increased from 18 to 21 . |
| 11 | The number of women in the Senate increased from two to six ( five out of 11 female candidates were victorious ) , and in the House from 28 to 47 . |
| 12 | The number of strands in the tight junctions may correlate inversely with the permeability of the epithelium and it has been shown that the crypt tight junctions have fewer strands than the villous junctions . |
| 13 | ( The number of illiterates in the world was estimated at 1,000 million , including some 35 per cent of all women . ) |
| 14 | Thus , by the end of the decade , the number of institutions in the public sector concerned with teacher training was substantially reduced , at least fourteen colleges had closed altogether , over sixty had merged with polytechnics and other further education institutions , a few had joined universities , and even those that remained ‘ free-standing ’ , that is untouched by institutional reorganization , found themselves offering a diversified range of courses including teacher training , thereby fundamentally altering their academic role . |
| 15 | The important changes in design were firstly to increase the number of judgments in the recognition phase in order to obtain better recognition data than was available for the previous studies , secondly , to use a much more varied selection of driving situations , and thirdly to show each location only once during the judgment phase of the experiment . |
| 16 | On the other hand it can be argued that , by rejecting the bid , the MMC were more concerned to maintain the existence of competition ( as measured by the number of firms in the market ) rather than enhance the ability to compete ( as claimed by those arguing that a merger would lower unit costs ) . |
| 17 | In doing their analysis Greer/Rhoades ( 1977 ) used an index of marked concentration based on the number of firms in the sector . |
| 18 | ( 1982 ) have argued that resources will be allocated efficiently ( in the sense that prices will be equal to marginal costs ) in industries which are perfectly contestable and that this result holds irrespective of the number of firms in the industry . |
| 19 | The benefits arising from contacts and participation in markets increased progressively with the number of firms in the locality , and firms continued to be attracted to the centre because of the numbers already there . |
| 20 | Government policy was aimed at reducing the number of smokers in the country and an advertising ban would go a good way to achieving this , he said . |
| 21 | This rule tends to reduce the number of nodes in the tree at the expense of storage requirements . |
| 22 | Hence K , the number of nodes in the lower layer , is of order 3 |
| 23 | St Petersburg , on the other hand , had the highest concentration of large factories , and of metalworking factories in particular , and in 1914 the capital and its environs accounted for almost half the number of strikers in the Empire . |
| 24 | Commencing with only three Divisions with their own examination structure , the number of Divisions in the RICS increased to seven and periodically the wheel is re-examined to establish whether it should turn full circle to produce a smaller number of specialist groups once again . |
| 25 | The labels on the boxes should include the address and telephone number of the sender and the consignee , a description of the contents ( species , strain , age , number ) and the number of boxes in the consignment . |
| 26 | it will vary depending upon the number of flats in the block , but gener |
| 27 | Reiman ( 1979 : 75 ) estimates that in 1972 the number of persons in the USA dying from occupational hazards ( diseases and accidents ) was 114,000 , whereas only 20,600 died from being shot , cut , beaten , or poisoned , and being recorded as a homicide case . |
| 28 | If he cares to count the number of persons in the Chamber , including you , Mr. Speaker , the Chairman of Ways and Means and his Clerk , he will find that there are 16 . |
| 29 | The contrast between the number of villas in the western half of the civitas of the Cantii and the comparative few in the east has long caused comment . |
| 30 | For the number of biomorphs in the land is half a trillion , and if no one of them is any more probable as a destination than any other , the odds of jumping to any particular one are small enough to ignore . |