Example sentences of "the number of [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will lead to an increase in the number of operations at the Royal . |
| 2 | Some of the archers thought that if the competition were restricted to longbows it would die out but , after a decrease when the steel bows first appeared , the number of longbows at the Scorton shoot is steadily increasing . |
| 3 | Here again , both the size of larger holdings and the number of cottagers at the bottom end of the social scale increased as the Stuart era progressed . |
| 4 | In Darlington the council calculates there are approximately 18,800 houses in the bottom band while the number of houses at the peak is negligible . |
| 5 | It depends upon the weather and the number of visitors at the resorts , and greater flexibility is required than can be provided by simple fixed-term contracts . |
| 6 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 7 | The number of personnel at the ministries of Defence , Interior , Foreign Affairs and the Prosecutor 's office would be severely cut . |
| 8 | In subsequent analysis , therefore , all responses from individuals at addresses which had changed electors were weighted by the number of adults at the address divided by the number of electors originally on the register for that address . |
| 9 | This also means you are saving space by minimising the number of terminals at the reception desk . |
| 10 | She said pedestrian refuges had helped to cut the number of accidents at the southern end of Ferryhill near the Darlington road junction which as seen several fatal incidents . |
| 11 | • Estimates of the number of journalists at the S-class release varied between 600 to 700 . |
| 12 | Memory node voltage depends on the number of electrons at the node and the the voltage applied to the gate electrode . |
| 13 | The number of children at the school may have dropped considerably either through competition from other schools or through a fall in the number of children of school age in the neighbourhood . |
| 14 | There may be a gain in the number of children at the school but this could well have happened through factors such as population change or a new housing development that are totally unconnected to the work on raising the school 's visibility and image . |
| 15 | By the way , your ma will be able to help out at your dairy for a month or two as I 'm cutting down on the number of cows at the manor . |
| 16 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |
| 17 | There are four basic ways of increasing the number of pupils at the school , extend the catchment area , attract the children of new families that move into the neighbourhood , shore up the leakage of children to other schools and , lastly , pick up those that are dissatisfied with their present school . |
| 18 | The number of tourists at the town 's new tourist information centre has doubled to 26,000 this year , and the policy of always trying to answer a visitor 's question has undoubtedly played a part in that success . |
| 19 | These mean ratings , together with the number of vehicles at the junction and the time spent there , are presented in Table 3.5 . |
| 20 | The research aims to look both at personal characteristics , such as age and sex , and also at company characteristics , such as the number of employees at the workplace . |