Example sentences of "number of [noun pl] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The number of personnel at the ministries of Defence , Interior , Foreign Affairs and the Prosecutor 's office would be severely cut .
2 It depends upon the weather and the number of visitors at the resorts , and greater flexibility is required than can be provided by simple fixed-term contracts .
3 The RUC said its officers fired a number of shots at the gunmen .
4 The RUC said its officers fired a number of shots at the gunmen .
5 Surviving vicious family feuds and a number of humiliations at the hands of the English , Malcolm III established a line which was to last for over two centuries .
6 The numbers of students at the colleges of education grew rapidly in the late 1960s , reaching a total of 114,000 by 1972 .
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