Example sentences of "increasing number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the fiscal year 1987 , the United States Central Authority received 5,433 requests for service , and the German Federal Republic 's Central Authorities reported increasing numbers of requests from United States plaintiffs , reaching 661 in the year 1986 . |
| 2 | In 1936 as a result of the growing need to supply the every increasing numbers of mines in the area , Howey Bay became known as the busiest ‘ airport ’ in the world . |
| 3 | The expansion in the number and size of towns had already brought increasing numbers of villages within the urban orbit , stimulating them into commercial production for urban needs . |
| 4 | Well the trend though over all is absolutely clear , that the Labour Party is committed to increasing women 's representation and is absolutely on that path , we 've more Labour women MP s and increasing numbers of women in the shadow cabinet it 's only in the end of the nineteen eighties , as recently as then , that we had no women in the shadow cabinet , now everybody agrees that it would look quite wrong not to have women in the shadow cabinet , we 've got a woman deputy leader , three women in the shadow cabinet , and therefore we 're definitely moving forward . |
| 5 | The increasing numbers of monks in the tenth and eleventh centuries show that even before the papal reform the life of celibacy had a large number of devotees . |
| 6 | There were frequent complaints that the limits were too low and should be increased more regularly to avoid unnecessary administrative waste , with increasing numbers of applications for extensions , delay , irritation and so on . |
| 7 | The domestic market grew as the demands by government and nobility for cash forced increasing numbers of peasants into handicraft production and petty commerce . |
| 8 | A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article . |
| 9 | Given the increasing numbers of microcomputers in schools and the fact that school librarians are generally in school after the school day ends , this should not prove problematic . |
| 10 | Within the earth sciences field at least , however , the data presented here show that at a period of declining career opportunities world-wide , universities were accepting increasing numbers of graduates into Ph D studies . |
| 11 | In 1987 at one of the regular meetings of superintendents , I listened as the deputy chief constable talked his way through a potential problem for the increasing numbers of graduates in the service , who ‘ obviously can not all make it to the top ’ . |
| 12 | * Reports from Thailand suggest that , following the government 's ban on logging , Thai businessmen are taking increasing numbers of trees from Burma , Laos and Cambodia , in some cases using this legal trade to pass off illegally-felled Thai trees as legitimate imports . |
| 13 | The school now has an increasing number of entrants with special needs , including children with support , children with behavioural difficulties and children already statemented . |
| 14 | An increasing number of directors of sponsoring companies are beginning to ask ‘ What did we get for our money ? ’ when they so often see players to whom considerable appearance fees have been paid , losing limply in their first or second round matches and , even worse , then turning round and implying that the only tournaments they really take seriously are the Grand Slams . |
| 15 | Yet the First World War produced exactly the opposite result : after an initial rise from 120,000 in 1914 to 600,000 in 1915 the number of children taking meals fell to 75,000 in 1918 — caused , of course , by the fact that improved employment opportunities and higher real wages brought about by the war economy lifted an increasing number of parents above the eligibility level . |
| 16 | In the future it is likely that an increasing number of services to schools will be contracted-out and any approach to whole-school planning must take this into account . |
| 17 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 18 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 19 | As so often happens , the passage of time showed an increasing number of disadvantages of the treatment , including a greater frequency of heart disease and strokes in men receiving oestrogens . |
| 20 | It was followed in 1987 , by ‘ New Directions ’ and ‘ A Transition to Adulthood ’ , in recognition of the increasing number of students with severe learning difficulties in the former case , and of students with considerable physical disabilities in the latter . |
| 21 | Such a move would be designed to accommodate an increasing number of students with declining resources and the two-year courses might well be based very largely on the colleges of higher education . |
| 22 | Police have recently been receiving an increasing number of calls from householders reporting the theft of ‘ wheelie bins ’ . |
| 23 | All the national newspapers and many of the provincial ones now devote an increasing number of columns to ‘ City ’ or ‘ Business ’ matters . |
| 24 | An increasing number of pubs in the Northwich area are barring the younger drinkers on Friday and Saturday nights , in a bid to cut down on trouble . |
| 25 | To continue to reply to the increasing number of requests for material for Standard Grade and Higher prospects and to this end to develop a limited resource base in the Education Secretary 's office ( beyond our own material ) . |
| 26 | On a recent visit to WACC 's offices in London , Lisa Vinebohm , the editor of AMARC 's newsletter InteRadio , said that AMARC is responding to an increasing number of requests from Africans to help set up community radio stations . |
| 27 | An increasing number of suppliers of deep-fat fryers and accessories are trying to make the potentially messy process of filtration easier for caterers and many of their latest products reflect this awareness . |
| 28 | He also mentioned the increasing number of visitors to the hills , disturbance to wildlife , changing landscape and ugly estate tracks ( of which Balmoral estate has some prime examples ) . |
| 29 | Change for the Angel was one of the increasing number of plays in the late Fifties and early Sixties to confront audiences with working-class culture . |
| 30 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |