Example sentences of "number of countries " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 2 | The result of this relatively narrow income distribution is that a company can be truly multinational , doing business with a spread of nations with high levels of income , whilst confining its activities to a very small number of countries . |
| 3 | This approach to total market demand forecasting analyses statistics over time in a number of countries for : |
| 4 | The Bombay-based Larsen and Toubro ( L&T ) , which has already exported software services to a number of countries , is negotiating with European countries for the supply of software engineering . |
| 5 | It will be available after 1997 and is essentially a travel document whose validity has been questioned by a number of countries . |
| 6 | Professionalism and sponsorship have penetrated a number of countries in Eastern Europe , most notably the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Whether overseas countries have pavilions at the show is surely not the point , what is important is the number of countries represented by the exhibits . |
| 8 | A number of countries are now queueing up to do so . |
| 9 | This was the case in a number of countries in our study , including Indonesia , Israel , the Philippines , and Uganda . |
| 10 | We are helping to improve public administration and the legal system in a number of countries . |
| 11 | Between 1960 and 1978 , ‘ Food imports rose in a number of countries where agribusiness and local commercial farmers have been most active in modernising the sector ( Argentina , Colombia , Guatemala and Mexico ) ’ ( Armstrong and McGee 1985 : 77 ) . |
| 12 | Although no country would choose to be without indigenous energy resources , a number of countries lacking access to significant gas , oil , or coal resources have avoided much of the divisive and damaging controversies which have afflicted successive UK governments in their efforts to make the best of being an island built of coal , surrounded by oil and gas and one of the pioneers of nuclear engineering . |
| 13 | Further evidence of slackening efforts was the reduction in a number of countries ' energy efficiency budgets . |
| 14 | Synfuel production will remain concentrated in a relatively small number of countries . |
| 15 | Similarly , the growth of unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s stimulated early retirement policies in a number of countries . |
| 16 | An increasing number of countries are moving towards a policy of prohibiting the sale of fireworks to the public and instead , having organised displays operated by experts ; ensuring that there is careful segregation of spectators from staff who are igniting the fireworks . |
| 17 | In an increasing number of countries , use of seat belts in cars is now obligatory . |
| 18 | In a number of countries for some years , the wearing of crash helmets by motor cyclists has been obligatory . |
| 19 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 20 | Koch & Rankin ( 1987 ) and Ball et al ( 1988 ) describe examples of computer application , and the proceedings from an international nursing conference , held in Dublin ( Nursing and Computers , 1988 ) , give some idea of the extent of computer usage in the profession in a number of countries . |
| 21 | The knowledge that confidence will be respected is an important feature of effective nurse/patient communication , and is incorporated in professional codes of practice in a number of countries . |
| 22 | In Europe a number of countries participate in the European Monetary System which attempts to stabilise exchange rates and thereby facilitate trade and investment flows between trading partners . |
| 23 | The UK clearinghouse , for example , deals with a substantial number of enquiries from libraries in a large number of countries . |
| 24 | A number of countries , including Kuwait , Senegal , India , Saudi Arabia and the Philippines , have expressed interest in collaborating with the centre 's work . |
| 25 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 26 | A parallel and significant trend of policy is a move in a number of countries to differentiate between a basic education cycle and a continuation cycle , the first aiming to provide basic learning skills , the latter emphasising prevocational studies and education for citizenship . |
| 27 | The width of the game 's popularity throughout the world is shown by the number of countries to which Kay & Company have sold stones . |
| 28 | Mr. Malone pointed to the number of countries likely to gain nuclear arms in the next ten years , and reminded the audience that there were still 27,000 nuclear warheads distributed around the remnants of the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | Though changing methods of planning for traffic specifically in residential areas were not a central thrust of Traffic in Towns , the book provided a context for residential area strategies which , in the event , have guided a number of countries in the ensuing quarter century . |
| 30 | In a number of countries ( like the Netherlands and Denmark ) this tendency is modified by the emphasis on ‘ risk groups ’ , including heterosexuals and drug addicts in prevention policy . |