Example sentences of "[prep] the number of cases [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps our common reason is not any prediction about the number of cases of injustice that the checkerboard strategy would produce or prevent , but our conviction that no one should actively engage in producing what he believes to be injustice . |
| 2 | The government has announced a near doubling of the number of cases of AIDS among heterosexuals , and says the disease is growing faster in this group than in any other . |
| 3 | The corrected sum of the number of cases with congenital abnormalities was calculated as unc where N i is the number of cases with congenital abnormalities out of n i births . |
| 4 | Apart from the People 's Republic of China , which claims to have eradicated syphilis in the space of about ten years , most countries are now reporting an increase in the number of cases of early infectious syphilis , usually amongst male homosexuals . |
| 5 | In the early seventies , the Swedes , worried by the startling increase in the number of cases of gonorrhoea , launched a health education campaign featuring a ‘ flying condom ’ which could be seen on all the best hoardings , exhorting the general public to use a protective in all acts of sexual intercourse . |
| 6 | Having followed the decline in the number of cases of gonorrhoea into the middle fifties , syphilis , in contrast , has remained at a comparatively low level ever since . |
| 7 | When the price of graphite fell in 1900 and the mines closed they returned to their villages ; one result was an increase in the number of cases of cattle stealing in the Western and Southern Provinces of fifty-six per cent over 1899 . |
| 8 | We 've seen new and harsher disciplinary procedures introduced , safety measures ignored and regrettably increases in the number of cases of racial and sexual harassment . |
| 9 | The latest flu epidemic could be followed by an upsurge in the number of cases of meningitis . |
| 10 | Researchers say that the alarming increase in the number of cases in December , the first month of the Brazilian summer , signals worse to come . |
| 11 | Finally , the gross overloading of the Crown Court , coupled with the great cost of criminal legal aid to the Exchequer , will probably bring about a further shift of criminal cases from the Crown Court to magistrates ' courts , which will involve a reduction in the number of cases in which barristers are engaged . |