Example sentences of "[art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | These factors help explain some of the reasons why the total number of ACET clients covered at any one time by our on call service in London has more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to over 150 by March 1991 ; and why the nature of the services required has become so much more sophisticated . |
| 2 | These factors help to explain why the total number of clients covered at any one time by our London 24 hour on-call service more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to 150 by March 1991 ; and why the provision of service has had to become so much more sophisticated . |
| 3 | Virtually everywhere from the Highlands to London 's suburbs , main line and local , passenger trains were steadily busier , the total number carried exceeding that of pre-Beeching days when the system was much larger . |
| 4 | Subsequently , while the total number of 110mph trains was retained some were withdrawn from the Glasgow service in favour of key Manchester and Liverpool business trains . |
| 5 | The total number of turns need not be exact but will be around 170 . |
| 6 | The profits growth came on the back of a 26 per cent rise in sales to more than £53m , with the total number of units sold up from 676 to 745 in the year . |
| 7 | Answering questions at a meeting with foreign journalists , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ We are looking at a scheme to have some people from Hong Kong , but it could n't be anything like the total number . ’ |
| 8 | There have , for example , been 29 changes in the method of computing the unemployment figures since the present Government came to power , so that the total number of people out of work has fallen by a far greater amount in appearance than in reality . |
| 9 | From 1984-88 , 35 university law departments lost 127 staff , including nine professors , representing around a quarter of the total number of posts , while recruitment has become increasingly difficult , with some commercial law posts being left vacant because no suitable candidates can be found . |
| 10 | The total number picked up to 423 by 1 December . |
| 11 | This brings the total number of birds in the UK to around 40 . |
| 12 | Such ventures never formed more than a significant minority of the total number of clubs , most of which were based on street or neighbourhood groups set up and run by ordinary working people . |
| 13 | Unmarried mothers — of all ages — account for only one third of the total number . |
| 14 | Flotation advisers declined to predict the total number of applications . |
| 15 | Flotation advisers declined to predict the total number of applications . |
| 16 | Discrepancies remained last night between the Foreign Office 's emphasis on 50,000 heads of families involved and what looked like a Home Office attempt to put a ceiling of 200,000-225,000 on the total number . |
| 17 | Discrepancies remained last night between the Foreign Office 's emphasis on 50,000 heads of families involved and what looked like a Home Office attempt to put a ceiling of 200,000-225,000 on the total number . |
| 18 | In an almost throw-away sentence the book gives one of the highest figures for the number of those whom Stalin killed or imprisoned during collectivisation and the purges : ‘ According to preliminary estimates , the total number of victims of the repressions was around 40 million . ’ |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia yesterday publicly beheaded four people — two Saudis and two Indians — convicted of murder , taking the total number of people beheaded this year to 99. — Reuter . |
| 20 | The total number of helicopters of all types in RAF service at the beginning of 1961 was only 24 , including just three of the larger twin-rotor Belvederes . |
| 21 | Today US-registered vessels make up only one-third of the fleet , and account for less than 16 per cent of the total number of dolphin deaths . |
| 22 | The total number of Egyptian fighting men in Saudi Arabia is put at about 27,000 , with another 5,000 or so based in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 23 | Many frustrating searches and months later , the total number of samples collected was only twenty-eight and , worse still , nearly half of these had to be rejected , either because of carbon contamination introduced during conservation treatments , or because the sample was too small to give a reasonably precise result . |
| 24 | In 1934 , there were 8,600,000 families , about 73.5 per cent of the total number of families in Britain , living on less than £4 per week . |
| 25 | They represented about half the total number of families of the country and more than 60 per cent of the population , and were those which were most afflicted by the economic ravages of the inter-war years . |
| 26 | The total number attending was only nine less than on the question of membership of the European Community seventeen years earlier , and forty more than had voted on the Government of Ireland bill in 1893 . |
| 27 | Examination of this material ( very much as described in Chapter 2 ) enables the identification of the dies used in the sample , and one can then work out the total number of dies represented in the sample of a given size . |
| 28 | Some are based on the total number of dies observed in the sample . |
| 29 | For each site the coins were divided up into different periods and expressed as a percentage of the total number of coins recovered . |
| 30 | In January , Mr Waldegrave , Health Secretary , announced the total number of homes to be provided was being topped up to 750 . |