Example sentences of "at the last count " in BNC.

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1 It has now become a challenge to find new varieties of herb — at the last count there were just over 130 .
2 Around the World in 80 Days ( BBC-1 ) started by pulling eight million viewers and at the last count two weeks ago had more than 11 million .
3 The only real worry is that , to finance a strategy driven by buying other firms , Hanson keeps a large cash balance — £7 billion at the last count .
4 Yet at the last count there were six oil-rich states bordering the Gulf .
5 At the last count , Britain boasted about 11 million private shareholders , the majority of them beneficiaries of the privatisation boom .
6 The Gamay is not one of the authorised varieties for Champagne , but it has been cultivated in the region for centuries and , at the last count in 1976 , there were 38 hectares .
7 The number of farmers is decreasing , 16 at the last count , but agriculture is still the dominant industry in this corner of East Yorkshire .
8 At the last count ( 1990 ) the Letter Box Study Group listed 11 survivors of this rare type K4 kiosk of which four were in service and eleven preserved .
9 Back home , in a small Wiltshire town , dear old Barclays was nursing an overdraft in the name of Colin O. L. Tuck , which was £248.14 at the last count .
10 The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines .
11 The number of players varies ( around 35 at the last count ) , and the strategic implications of such rules as may exist have not been fully worked out .
12 At the last count I have had 15 responses to my letter from readers , many recommending the Bradford Exchange ( not infrequently including envelopes addressed to the Exchange and in one case a completed order form ) , one offering to obtain the plate from a local charity shop and three writers offering a copy of the plate for sale .
13 At the last count . ’
14 Wayne 's World , in which he plays the villain , had grossed $110 million at the last count .
15 I have , at the last count , 19 separate applications under consideration by 12 separate funding bodies .
16 The number of people identified who have made the move to the community was 768 at the last count , up to about September 1988. 526 are included in the evaluation , so we are already getting a lot of information about the potential of community care .
17 At the last count there were over a dozen packages waiting , patiently , to be called upon .
18 And , for every fully-fledged veggie , there are 100 fish-eating demi-vegetarians and many thousands — more than 40 per cent of the adult population at the last count — claiming to eat less meat .
19 They earn a lot more , at the last count , averaging 4.63 an hour — though this was a lot less than their on-site colleagues , for they only earned when there was work .
20 At the last count , 15 planning applications were outstanding .
21 Another issue which the Government is determined to tackle is the number of young people leaving school with no qualifications — 10pc at the last count .
22 Apart from Summerchild and a clerical assistant , the Unit at the last count still consisted of one single member , Serafin herself .
23 The total world population was put at 190 at the last count .
24 Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence .
25 sorry , erm this budget has a very long gestation period er I 'm on version twelve I think at the last count and I hope there is n't gon na be a version thirteen .
26 At the last count she had two hundred and forty of them .
27 And she too has a ‘ sporting background ’ in that she is one of about 500 people at the last count who were in the same class in the Primate Dixon PS in Coalisland as snooker superstar Denis Taylor !
28 More than 200 , in fact , at the last count .
29 At the last count , North Riding District , represented on the Yorkshire committee by Peter Quinn , had 579 paid up members .
30 At the last count 15 vessels from Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales had joined local boats scooping the scallops .
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