Example sentences of "but [art] numbers " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK the spread of infection has slowed down but the numbers ill and needing care are continuing to rise and this is a reflection of levels of infection some years ago . |
| 2 | The championship may be a two-man affair , but the numbers game does not tell the whole story and Carson is riding with as much inspiration and dash as either of the younger men . |
| 3 | But the numbers are expected to rise sharply . |
| 4 | In England in 1970 , there were 232 hospitals with 59,000 beds , an average of 250 beds per hospital ; in 1976 , the number of hospitals had risen to 275 but the numbers of beds had fallen to 53,000 , an average of under 200 beds per hospital . |
| 5 | But the numbers of children fell off . |
| 6 | But the numbers can increase only as fast as fencing , which is expensive . |
| 7 | But the numbers of accidents on local roads within the residential neighbourhoods are on average less than one quarter of the total in the area and more comprehensive treatment is not cost effective on safety grounds alone . ’ |
| 8 | The average passenger spent 3% less time at the airports but the numbers are 4m ahead at 44m in the half year to September . |
| 9 | There were , it is true , plenty of tigers to hunt , but the numbers killed are almost unbelievable . |
| 10 | Mike Stein demonstrates that this is another area of child care in which there has been no large-scale research , but the numbers of small studies available show that the ‘ crude stereotype ’ of care leavers being 18-year olds without families , who have spent their lives in large institutions , must be abandoned . |
| 11 | But the numbers arriving on both the west and east coasts are increasing : according to some estimates , as many as 40 ships have delivered people since the first boat was detected in September 1991 . |
| 12 | Admission is free to all events but the numbers of places limited |
| 13 | The work force has become increasingly female-dominated , but the numbers of full-time women workers has declined considerably because of job losses in manufacturing . |
| 14 | As many as a third of these received a custodial sentence , but the numbers were too small to detect differences in sentencing patterns . |
| 15 | The effects of this trend weakened in the 1970s but the numbers of economically active women were by that time swollen by the fall in the numbers of children and by the fall in the numbers of women entering motherhood in their twenties . |
| 16 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 17 | The numbers of children diagnosed and born each year fluctuated , but the numbers were small and there was no noticeable trend with time . |
| 18 | Thus , they will make little contribution to the probability of the particle 's going from A to B. But the numbers from the straight paths will add up with the numbers from paths that are almost straight . |
| 19 | Strikes remained relatively large , but the numbers have fallen sharply and represent the lowest level of industrial conflict in the post-war years . |
| 20 | The latter , built of brick and glass in the functional and unelaborate manner of the early 1970s , were originally planned to occupy adjacent premises but the numbers of infant children were such that another larger building was needed which now stands a few hundred , wind-swept , yards away . |
| 21 | The tendency in the historical literature has been to dismiss the number of homeworkers during the 1900s as insignificant , but the numbers of women employed in casual tasks are extremely difficult to estimate . |
| 22 | The Factory Acts of 1891 and 1895 made provision for the regulation of homework , but the numbers remained hard to calculate . |
| 23 | the employers of 1984 IT Advanced Course students did include some user companies , but the numbers were small in comparison to more mainstream IT work ; |
| 24 | The club is working well but the numbers are dropping which is quite normal at this particular time of the year . |
| 25 | But the numbers deciding in favour of contraception are far fewer than might be predicted from a simple comparison of relative death risks . |
| 26 | BNFL will seek to identify new projects for the site but the numbers of BNFL employees at Capenhurst are expected to fall significantly by the mid to late 1990s . |
| 27 | There will obviously be different folders , maybe focussing on areas of topical interest , but the numbers and types will be made up to coincide with existing funding intentions and policies up to £3M . |
| 28 | If , simultaneously , the short-term frequency increases , but the numbers of citations per paper decreases , then the research group has reached the subject 's saturation limit , and consideration should be given to levelling-off or reducing funding for these projects . |
| 29 | Initially , few consultations were recorded , but the numbers doubled in 1972 , and increased steadily from that date . |
| 30 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |