Example sentences of "the number of new [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACET through its schools education programme aims to reduce the number of new infections by giving young people the facts about AIDS . |
| 2 | There are two key measures : ( 1 ) the incidence rate ( the number of new cases over a given period , usually a year ) and ( 2 ) the prevalence rate ( the number of cases/persons affected in the population at a particular moment in time ) . |
| 3 | Briefly , their ‘ epidemic ’ model proposes that , from a stable endemic baseline , the number of new cases of heroin use ( incidence ) in a community increases rapidly for four years before peaking at ten times the level of initial endemic incidence in year five , and then dropping sharply to the previous endemic level during years six and seven ( see Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 4 | We looked at the total incidence of gonorrhoea ; the number of cases of gonorrhoea found in men overall and in homosexual men ; the male to female ratio of cases of gonorrhoea ; and the number of new cases of HIV infection diagnosed in homosexual men ( table ) . |
| 5 | The number of new cases of gonorrhoea in homosexuals was lowest in 1987 and then gradually increased until 1990 . |
| 6 | The existing stone walling was retained and the original massiveness of the east elevation was preserved and even emphasised by retaining the high level ventilation slits and minimising the number of new windows on this sunless side . |
| 7 | When determining the size of the advanced further education pool for 1982 , the DES allowed for a drop in the number of new students by 4,000 to 50,000 , despite the fact that the local authorities predicted a further rise in intake , to 56,000 in 1982–3 . |
| 8 | There had been a significant fall in the number of new arrivals since the October agreement — only seven between January and mid-May 1992 , compared with 3,920 in the corresponding period in 1991 . |
| 9 | Curran 's arrival brings the number of new signings at Scarborough this week to five as boss Ray McHale looks ahead to next season . |