Example sentences of "1988 [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 1937 count found 300,000 wading birds in the Everglades ; by 1988 the number had dropped to 15,000 . |
| 2 | By 1988 the number of leaks about MI5 's illegal activities , from people like Peter Wright and Cathy Massiter who had first-hand experience , had reached such proportions that they could no longer be ignored , even though the government made every attempt to denigrate the motives and character of such people . |
| 3 | From 1980 to 1988 the number of elderly people in residential care grew by 29% . |
| 4 | Between 1968 and 1988 the number of practices grew from just over 3,000 to over 5,000 . |
| 5 | Between 1983 and 1988 the number of men serving short sentences ( defined in Britain as 18 months or less ) fell by 27 per cent . |
| 6 | Between June 1971 and June 1988 the number employed in manufacturing industries fell by nearly 3 million , while the number employed in service industries rose by over 2.5 million . |
| 7 | From 1981 to 1988 the number of attendances at a genitourinary medicine clinic for uncomplicated postpubertal gonorrhoea fell consistently ( fig 1 ( top ) ) . |
| 8 | For 1988 the number of reports of newly diagnosed HIV-1 infection in men who had had sex with men ( 1062 ) was the lowest in any year since the widespread introduction of testing . |
| 9 | Table 5.2 shows that over the period 1971 to 1988 the number employing 1,000 or more workers fell by more than half to leave less than 500 such factories in the whole country . |
| 10 | Between May 1979 and March 1988 the number of police officers increased 11 per cent ( from 111,493 to 124,080 ) . |
| 11 | Since 1988 the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 12 | In August 1988 a number of police officers joined forces to pursue a person whom it was alleged had been driving recklessly . |