Example sentences of "[num] and the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |
| 2 | On Merseyside , thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and the number of cars stolen has fallen to 12,992 an overall drop of 9% . |
| 3 | The statistics summarised in Table 3.8 show that in the first four months of 1985 , the number of people entering unemployment averaged 347,525 and the number leaving averaged 338,750 against a total unemployment figure of just over 3 m . |
| 4 | But following Puhlhofer the number of applications halved to 32 in 1986 and the number refused leave rose from 6 in 1985 to 13 in 1986 . |
| 5 | Effectively , the group consists of experienced barristers between the ages of forty-five and sixty and the number of genuine possibilities — the short list — may be as small as half a dozen . |
| 6 | Estimates of its K d have varied from 10 - 1 1 to 10 - 9 M and the number of receptors/cell from 100 to 10000 . |
| 7 | The number of submissions rose from 450 in 1991 to 540 in 1992 and the number of female artists increased from 194 to 270 . |
| 8 | Catches have fallen from 36,000 tonnes in 1988 to 28,000 tonnes in 1992 and the number of fish is down by two-thirds . |
| 9 | However , more guerrillas had been sent from North Korea in March 1950 and the number had tripled . |
| 10 | Now suppose the velocity of circulation rises to 5 and the number of transactions increases to 40 million . |
| 11 | In Mauritania , for instance , where only one per cent of women uses contraception , the average number of children born to a woman is only 6.25 and the number surviving is even fewer . |
| 12 | The school had begun to fail in the forties and fifties and the number of pupils declined to fifteen , to ten , to three . |
| 13 | Its population grew twenty times between 1801 and 1901 from 4,343 to 82,329 and the number of inhabited houses rose from 691 to 11,359 . |
| 14 | The procedure by way of judicial review was simplified in 1977 and the number of applications rose considerably . |
| 15 | The actual figure for applications in October was 4,400 and the number is likely to reach between 45,000 and 50,000 this year , whereas we used to receive 2,000 or 3,000 applications . |
| 16 | Put forward your suggestions , say , ‘ Hey , I want this in , I want this , this 'd be great ’ , instead of dialling all those figures , all you have to do is hash 6 and the number . |
| 17 | The number of blocks has been reduced by 25 per cent to 125 and the number of blocks with working interests of 10 per cent or less has been reduced by 42 per cent . |
| 18 | It reveals a significant gap between the number of informal carers needed by the year 2000 and the number of people who expect to be doing the job . |
| 19 | The changes , which included six new members , reduced the number of full ministers from 23 to 16 and the number of secretaries of state from five to one . |
| 20 | We shall index these markets or islands by the subscript , where z can be any number between 1 and the number of islands in the economy , N. We begin the model by writing down the supply of output in the th market as where is the quantity of output supplied in market in period t ; p ( ) t is the price of output in market in period t ; Formula ; is the expectation formed in market of the economy-wide average price of output in period t , p t , using all the information available in the th market at the beginning of period t ; and β and β : 1 are coefficients , where β 1 is positive . |
| 21 | Used to go from Ipswich , they used to be the number one and they had the number two and the number two , she got blown up in Harwich Harbour . |
| 22 | It passed the 1000 mark in 1919 and the number climbed steadily to just over 2000 in 1923 , after which a rapid decline set in . |
| 23 | Between 1955 and 1975 the number of private mental hospitals rose from 206 to 1,450 and the number of patients increased from 44,000 to 300,000 . |
| 24 | At secondary level , where provision in the colonial period was extremely limited , the expansion has been even more spectacular , with the number of schools increasing from 177 to 1,502 and the number of pupils by 950 per cent . |
| 25 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |