Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj -est] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Strathclyde records the highest numbers of the most serious offences , the survey highlights that it is not alone in suffering steep rises in violent crime . |
| 2 | Yeah thing about it is though when you 're looking at this , you wan na be looking as to which is the Produces the smallest numbers . |
| 3 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 4 | Even if the Tories lose their overall majority , Mr Major is almost certain to seek to form a minority Government if he has the largest number of seats . |
| 5 | Of all British cities Glasgow has the largest number of council flats in high blocks : 33,600 in blocks of five or more storeys ( almost twice the total of its nearest challenger , Birmingham ) , the majority resulting from a compressed ‘ burst ’ of construction in the 1960s . |
| 6 | It also has the largest number of overseas companies listed . |
| 7 | Which country has the largest number of people employed in manufacturing ? |
| 8 | NOT have an accident in Nepal , which has the highest number of potential patients per hospital bed . |
| 9 | Outside the US , the UK now has the highest number of cellular subscribers anywhere in the world , and by the year 2000 as many as 20% of the UK population are expected to be users . |
| 10 | The RUC has the highest number of Special Branch officers in Britain — six percent ( 662 staff ) — compared with around one percent in most UK forces . |
| 11 | It also has the highest number of community relations and crime prevention officers — 192 . |
| 12 | This borough has the highest number |
| 13 | Domestic violence against women probably has the greatest number of unreported offences . |
| 14 | Although not quite so export orientated , the Electronics sector sustains the greatest number of jobs through its exports followed by the Mechanical engineering industries . |
| 15 | The table shows the latest numbers for contributions so far , set roughly against ability to pay and interest in the Gulf measured by reliance on imported oil . |
| 16 | I prefer to let the game be fun , with little concern for competition , but sometimes children like to see who takes the shortest number of dives to pick up all the treasure . |
| 17 | Our study documents the largest number of cases of person-to-person transmission of a single P cepacia strain within and between regional CF centres , and describes social contacts before colonisation . |
| 18 | In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X . |
| 19 | The modern primary Church of England school which caters for about 60 children serves a wide catchment area — in fact at the moment Lockington village provides the smallest number , the rest travelling from Lund , Aike , Wilfholme and surrounding farms . |