Example sentences of "the number [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , no , not really Ma'am , there were still charts to plot , and observations to send to Group , and instruments to read — and the unspoken implication , ever present , was that we were Grade 2 technicians , and if she wanted to make up the numbers on parade surely she could find a few more pen-pushers in nine-to-five jobs ? |
| 2 | ‘ By about round four , I expect the height and weight advantage to be neutralised and he 'll start running the numbers on Bowe . ’ |
| 3 | The labour force rose from 45 million in 1940 to 60 million in 1944 , and even the addition of many women and young people to the numbers at work caused few problems . |
| 4 | In Presbyterianism it will be by attendance at the quarterly communions , and in Anglican Churches with a central or evangelical tradition the most accurate measure will be the numbers at Easter and possibly Christmas communion , although in some churches these two seasons will present difficulties if there is a tradition of members going away for holidays or to visit relatives at these times . |
| 5 | Only salaried employees with five years at Bull can apply for departure , and Bull will limit the numbers to 60% managers and 40% non-managers . |
| 6 | Despite this , there are still long waiting lists for urgent adult admissions to mental handicap hospitals , and as we have noted the numbers of adults in mental handicap hospitals are only falling slowly . |
| 7 | On both sides of the Atlantic the decisions of architects , civil engineers , environmental planners , doctors etc. attract public scrutiny and the numbers of government regulating agencies increase . |
| 8 | The numbers of work permits issued have fallen as the British unemployment rate has risen . |
| 9 | However , figures disaggregated by sex on the numbers of claimants who have had their benefit withdrawn for such reasons are not readily available . |
| 10 | For most of the period 1279 to 1327 , we have documentary evidence for the numbers of dies made and coinage struck at the mints of London and Canterbury . |
| 11 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | According to the latest survey by the BBC , schools have reported a 30 per cent increase in the numbers of youngsters being permanently excluded from schools across the eastern region . |
| 13 | The numbers of TNCs based in Third World countries , particularly the NICs , has grown rapidly in recent years , and some Third World TNCs are extremely large and wield considerable influence ( Lall , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Means noting the numbers of times each behaviour is witnessed . |
| 15 | British librarians seem to have been slow to react to the increase in the numbers of problem customers . |
| 16 | Most hospitals retain records relevant to deceased people received into the mortuary , together with the numbers of post-mortem examinations , and any infectious conditions found subsequently . |
| 17 | Flogging was reintroduced in India at this time by the Whipping Act of 1864 , and even the bare statistical details of the numbers of floggings carried out by the British are enough to make the blood run cold . |
| 18 | It appears to us all that there has been a significant drop in the numbers of telephone enquiries coming in to the Library since the new system went in . |
| 19 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 20 | In general , the numbers of widows in the 15–44 age group remained fairly constant at about 200,000 throughout the period , despite steady increases in the total population . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the numbers of women receiving outdoor relief decreased from 166,407 on 1 January 1871 to 53,371 on 1 January 1892 , and the numbers of widows in the same category fell from 53,502 on 1 January 1873 to 36,627 on 1 January 1892 . |
| 22 | Figure 2.3 gives , for the United Kingdom as a whole , the numbers of males and females in each of five age groups below the age of 25 . |
| 23 | The West German Institute for Economic Research predicted on June 27 that East German unemployment would rise from the present 130,000 to 1,400,000 or 16 per cent of the workforce ; the government had said , however , that 1,000,000 workers would be retrained in 1990 , in preparation for the new business environment , and that the numbers of apprenticeships for young workers would quintuple between June and September . |
| 24 | I note the minister did n't give er the numbers of apprenticeships and there 's possibly a reason for that . |
| 25 | The next day , they admitted that they had miscounted and that ‘ in the period June 27-August 9 … the numbers of persons detained for the whole range of offences connected with public order were loyalists 468 ; republicans 427 ’ . |
| 26 | The water requirements can be estimated from the numbers of persons involved , the usual amounts being 10 gal ( 45 1. ) per head per day for those using the canteens and 20 gal ( 90 1. ) per head per day for toilets . |
| 27 | In terms of the numbers of persons involved , short-term contract working ( with the worker being the direct employee of the organisation which engages him ) is the most important form of temporary working in Britain . |
| 28 | These buildings became a common feature of the market towns as the numbers of soldiers increased ; at one stage there were 15,000 troops in Brighton alone and large contingents in most of the other towns . |
| 29 | Superovulation is a useful device for increasing the numbers of eggs and embryos obtained from young ( 3–4 weeks ) mice ( for discussion of the factors involved see ref. 6 ) . |
| 30 | Since the crucial period of pasture contamination with O. ostertagi eggs is the period up to mid-July , one of the efficient modern anthelmintics may be given on two or three occasions between turn-out in the spring and July to minimise the numbers of eggs deposited on the pasture . |