Example sentences of "the number of [noun pl] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly this increase in the number of wakenings during the night is related to the attenuation with age of the twenty-four-hour ( circadian ) rhythm of body temperature and other physiological functions . |
| 2 | These increases in women 's relative wage rates , from about 65 per cent of men 's in the 1960s to 75 per cent by 1975 , can be shown to have substantially reduced the number of births during the 1970s — by 130,000 — and made their timing more volatile ( de Cooman , Ermisch , and Joshi 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Another progressive change with age in sleeping patterns is the number of arousals during the night . |
| 4 | Delivering 40,000 ice cubes to the minister , representing the extra number of people who die each winter compared with the number of deaths during the summer , the Campaign for Cold Weather Credits hopes to draw attention to the plight of the poor and the elderly . |
| 5 | The tendency in the historical literature has been to dismiss the number of homeworkers during the 1900s as insignificant , but the numbers of women employed in casual tasks are extremely difficult to estimate . |
| 6 | Will he tell us which European country enjoyed the greatest growth in the number of jobs during the 1980s ? |