Example sentences of "in [art] numbers [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was argued that the pattern in other countries was that laws permitting divorce followed social trends in the numbers of marriage breakdowns rather than vice versa and that the fears of societal breakdown promoted by opponents in Ireland were unfounded in fact . |
| 2 | The inference in this was not really about the career chances of the still tiny percentage of graduates ( who are obviously well aware that their chances of reaching the highest echelons are constrained by the limitations in the numbers of top posts ) , rather it was a reassertion that those with a degree are almost a different species and remain a threat to the stability of the institution . |
| 3 | There was a 66 per cent increase in the numbers of applications made by litigants in person and a 20 per cent increase in the number of appeals . |
| 4 | Cuts in the numbers of nuclear weapons have come because of carefully negotiated agreements that the superpowers have confidence in . |
| 5 | They pointed out that , because of a simultaneous fall in the numbers of unemployed and of teenagers , expenditure per head on training had been growing rapidly since the mid-1980s . |
| 6 | With big increases in the numbers of bonds falling due over the next three years , defaults seem sure to rise further . |
| 7 | Recent decades have seen significant increases in the numbers of offences of violence reported to , and recorded by , the police . |
| 8 | He shared the Ashby Committee 's appreciation of voluntaryism in adult education and did not wish to encourage a substantial increase in the numbers of full-time staff . |
| 9 | There has been a fall in the numbers of beef cows receiving the hill cow subsidy in Scotland from 459,000 in 1975 to 442,000 in 1978 . |
| 10 | There has been a significant reduction in the numbers of young people placed in residential settings over the past two decades . |
| 11 | But this increase may not be as great as the rise in the numbers of older people if there is an improvement in their state of fitness as Jefferys and Thane ( 1989 ) suggest . |
| 12 | To cope with the gradual discharge of mentally handicapped people from hospitals , there has been an increase in the numbers of places available in residential homes . |
| 13 | It has for some time been considered a most urgent need to extricate mentally handicapped children from long-stay hospitals and stop their admission to them , and there has , as a result , been a sharp fall in the numbers of mentally handicapped children in hospitals . |
| 14 | This demand for residential homes has as we have seen risen because of the decrease in the numbers of mentally handicapped children and adults living in hospitals . |
| 15 | This included decreases in the numbers of day pupils in maintained ESN(M) schools and the numbers attending special classes in normal schools . |
| 16 | The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises . |
| 17 | A number of possible reasons have been identified for the rapid expansion of private sector residential care : the increase in the numbers of very old people , the reduction in long-stay hospital provision , cuts in local authority spending , and finally , the ‘ perverse incentives ’ of the social security system that encourages residential rather than community care . |
| 18 | Among the groups that have increased , the largest single cause of the increase was divorce , 60 per cent ; an increase in the numbers of single mothers accounted for a further 34 per cent , lone fathers just over 3 per cent and separated women just under 2 per cent . |
| 19 | Percentage changes in the numbers of one parent families , 1976–1986 , Great Britain . |
| 20 | ( J Millar , 1989 ) Moreover , the growth in the numbers of one-parent families in the past two decades has occurred in most industrialised countries . |
| 21 | Increasing interest in Parliament was also indicated by a growth in the numbers of letters received by the Speaker , which generally showed ‘ enthusiastic public response to the experiment ’ . |
| 22 | The extent to which these tactics are successful — and indeed the extent to which they are tried ( early evidence from January and February 1990 indicated a decrease in the numbers of statements , Private Notice Questions , applications for emergency debates and points of order compared with previous sessions — is a matter of some speculation . |
| 23 | Since the mid-1980s , there has also been a sharp growth in the numbers of foreign aid donors giving various kinds of scholarships , either for study abroad or training in South Africa . |
| 24 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 25 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |
| 26 | The Department of Employment in their Partnership Handbook publication , recommend and increase in the numbers of teachers undertaking secondment into industry as a key performance indicator of partnership activity , as it has been of the TVEI extension programme . |
| 27 | Apart from the load attempted suicide places on health service facilities , it is not yet known whether the high levels of the behaviour in recent years will subsequently be reflected in an increase in the numbers of completed suicides . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Assuming a free choice becomes possible , it is difficult to foresee any great increase in the numbers of limited partnerships . |
| 30 | British librarians seem to have been slow to react to the increase in the numbers of problem customers . |