Example sentences of "in the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malaise and appreciable increases in serum transaminase activities coincided with a marked increase in the number of hepatocytes staining for HDAg and also the first histological appearance of HBcAg ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 2 | The difference in the number of hepatocytes positive for pre-S1 or pre-S2 between two groups of patients was compared using Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test . |
| 3 | Clues to the foci of several biogeographers may be gleaned from definitions in the number of texts on biogeography that have emerged to fill a gap that was acute until 1970 ( Table 5.2 ) . |
| 4 | The evidence from these experiments also showed that while waking people up from REM sleep regularly produced reports of dreaming , delaying the awakening until after the end of the REM sleep period produced a dramatic drop in the number of dreams recalled . |
| 5 | Researchers say that the alarming increase in the number of cases in December , the first month of the Brazilian summer , signals worse to come . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their observations were only partially based on the fall in the number of cases brought before the courts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Once this was discovered , the amount of oxygen given to young babies was carefully monitored and a dramatic fall in the number of cases resulted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , White , in this issue , argues that private actions have played an important role in the development of more effective antitrust in the US , and that the recent decline in the number of cases has allayed the fears , expressed in the 1980s , of excessive litigation . |
| 14 | After the previous year saw a fall in the number of cases involving disputes with members of the Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation handled by the Investment Ombudsman , the number increased by over 50 per cent in 1992/3 according to his annual report . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The latest flu epidemic could be followed by an upsurge in the number of cases of meningitis . |
| 17 | But he adds , ‘ there is an increase in the number of cases coming to our attention ’ . |
| 18 | There was no significant difference in the number of changes in management when referrals from physicians and surgeons were compared ( 46.6% v 51.1% , NS ) . |
| 19 | For example , a rise in real wages makes work more attractive and so may lead to an increase in the number of hours of work offered . |
| 20 | It is expected that this trend will continue , with further reductions in the number of hours worked and more people taking early retirement . |
| 21 | The inter-establishment variation in relative wages will be analysed as will be the decomposition of the differential in weekly pay into that in hourly pay and that in the number of hours worked per week . |
| 22 | But it was not in the number of hours that the factory system brought a new dimension . |
| 23 | An increase in real output per capita may not even increase potential economic welfare if it is accompanied by negative externalities , an increase in the number of hours worked or increased production of investment goods at the expense of consumer goods . |
| 24 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 25 | For instance , the considerable differences in the number of interactions ( compare , for example , the pseudonymous Claybourn and Greystock ) is partly a function of their length : a relatively tow number of interactions does not indicate prolonged periods of silence , and most teachers were interacting with children most of the time . |
| 26 | I express the hope that there will be a lessening in the number of challenges which are mounted against local authorities who are endeavouring , in extremely difficult circumstances , to perform their duties under the [ Homeless Persons Act with due regard for all their other housing problems . |
| 27 | Success in biomedical careers has long been associated with authorship of publications in peer reviewed journals , and this association may partly explain the exponential increase in the number of articles published over the past two decades . |
| 28 | In the case of an article written by five authors , for example , the availability of one extra slot may work to the advantage of a colleague whose goodwill is valued but whose involvement with the project had been only marginal ; such circumstances may help create a dip in the number of articles with five authors ( figs 2 and 4 ) which further accentuates the peak at six authors . |
| 29 | He will be pleased to know that the latest report of the railway inspectorate on railway safety showed a modest reduction in the number of collisions between passenger trains in 1990 compared with the previous year . |
| 30 | There was an increase of 20 per cent in the number of cycles completed per unit time after reorganisation from the conventional to the composite longwall system ( a cycle being the three processes of preparation , getting , and advancing ) , though they do note that , at the same time , better conveyors were introduced and on one face there was a change from hewing the coal to cutting it ( Trist et al. 1963 , 256 ) . |