Example sentences of "the number of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work force has become increasingly female-dominated , but the numbers of full-time women workers has declined considerably because of job losses in manufacturing . |
| 2 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 3 | For instance , the ‘ coming of age ’ of a baby boom can be expected to lead to higher levels of migration towards the ‘ bright city lights ’ , while the subsequent increase in the numbers of young couples is likely to lead to greater demand for family-size housing and suburban residential locations . |
| 4 | Subscribers have the chance to ignore unwanted calls but can also use the system to record the numbers of recent callers when they are away from their homes . |
| 5 | However , even considering all studies together , the numbers of non-right handers have been too few , and the criteria for classification of hand preference too simplistic , to allow any precise conclusions as to the relative proportions of left and right hemisphere speech dominant individuals to be drawn . |
| 6 | As a result the procedure of dividing the numbers of married persons by two artificially deflates the numbers and proportion of married women in poverty . |
| 7 | Similarly , social policy continued to emphasise the importance of motherhood and the family , even though women had begun to enter production industry in large numbers during the war , and despite a post-war increase in the numbers of married women doing paid work . |
| 8 | Demographic processes , not only concerning the expectation of life but also changes in the birth-rate for instance , economic change , including the increase in the numbers of married women working , and even government policy , all affect the family . |
| 9 | In the absence of more sophisticated data , the calculation of the numbers of married women and men living on low incomes has been forced to assume an equal division of income within the income unit . |
| 10 | This leads to random fluctuations in the numbers of alternative variants making up gene families and , as in gene conversion , one variant copy may replace all the others throughout a sexual population . |
| 11 | When so much attention is paid to the vast power of multinational companies , it is perhaps wise to think of the numbers of international names that have disappeared from the scene , even during our own lifetime . |
| 12 | The main influence of Toynbee Hall lay in the numbers of civil servants and politicians later influential in the social policy field who gained early experience as residents , including Alfred Milner , later Governor-General of South Africa , and William Beveridge who was sub-warden of Toynbee Hall from 1903 to 1907 . |
| 13 | But it had a particularly important clause in section 1 , which laid a duty upon the authorities to inform themselves of the numbers of disabled persons in their areas and to make arrangements to meet their needs . |
| 14 | The numbers of tame elephants kept at any one time between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries certainly exceeded the entire wild population left in the world today ! |
| 15 | The group affect around one in every 500 children born with around 1,200 births in 1982 ; the numbers of such births are falling partly because they are identifiable in screening programmes , and the mothers are taking what they consider to be appropriate actions , and partly due to higher standards of antenatal care . |
| 16 | The numbers of such birds shot annually is not known , but evidence that these introductions have increased the breeding or wintering stock is lacking . |
| 17 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 18 | The numbers of such couples living in someone else 's household fell by three-quarters between 1961 and 1981 . |
| 19 | They discovered that the numbers of such children attending special schools for the visually handicapped and those attending other kinds of schools , including integration into mainstream provision , were not grossly divergent . |
| 20 | In England in 1986 , the numbers of such units officially recognised by the DES were 1247 in primary schools and 660 in secondary schools . |
| 21 | Normally , increases or reductions in publishing output tend to be undramatic , but in the 1980s the numbers of new titles published annually have gone up very substantially indeed — increases not on the whole matched by additions to library bookfunds . |
| 22 | Work units submitted the numbers of new employees required each year and the state officials sent them along . |
| 23 | Many commentators criticized the lists for giving only the names and the numbers of uncovered cheques , while omitting details of the size of individual overdrafts . |
| 24 | The local MP had initially written to Mr Hanley demanding to know why there was a continuing reduction in the numbers of part-time soldiers . |
| 25 | Although the numbers of part-time teachers have declined in the last few years as a result of financial stringency , their contribution to the colleges remains important . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ Over the past 10 years we have been striving hard to maintain the numbers of part-time firefighters which are needed for this vital community service . ’ |
| 27 | But it ignores social changes like the increase in the numbers of educated women , the decline in domestic help and the development of job and life expectations . |
| 28 | The numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue . |
| 29 | A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community . |
| 30 | Estimates of the numbers of political prisoners in Syria varied , but according to some sources about 3,500 still remained in prison . |