Example sentences of "in [adj] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1970 there were more than half a million students at a now expanded network of higher education , and in 1980 the number exceeded a million for the first time , taking in roughly a quarter of the relevant age group . |
| 2 | Reiman ( 1979 : 75 ) estimates that in 1972 the number of persons in the USA dying from occupational hazards ( diseases and accidents ) was 114,000 , whereas only 20,600 died from being shot , cut , beaten , or poisoned , and being recorded as a homicide case . |
| 3 | In 1972 the number of houses used as second homes in Britain as a whole was estimated at 372000 , but it is believed that this number has declined in recent years due to the inflation in house prices since that date . |
| 4 | According to Danas ( 9 September 1986 ) , in 1985 the number of persons subject to this tax was a little over 13,000 ( compared with about 9 million persons in employment or self-employment in that year ) , and the tax raised was about 1 3 billion dinars ( compared with a total gross public revenue in that year of 3,736 billion dinars ) . |
| 5 | At the decade 's start everything was gloom and doom , cutbacks the order of the day since in 1979 the number of commuters going into London dropped for the tenth successive year . |
| 6 | In 1066 the number of English nuns was a quarter of the number of monks ; the number rose rapidly , but even so , in 1154 they were probably less than a fifth the number of monks . |
| 7 | Baptists had six colleges in England and two in Wales although in 1904 the number was reduced to four in England through amalgamation . |
| 8 | The government had long preferred these white ‘ aliens ’ ( with these low social costs ) to Commonwealth immigrants ( for example in 1969 the number of work permits issued to aliens was 67,788 compared to 3,512 vouchers for Commonwealth citizens ) . |
| 9 | In 1922 the number of literacy centres and those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to by 1921 . |
| 10 | The major insurance companies receive about 10,000 claims each year , and following the severe drought in 1976 the number doubled . |
| 11 | From 175 out of 450 county cricketers in 1949 the number of amateurs fell to 72 out of 370 in 1961 . |
| 12 | Traffic volumes soon rose after the war , and in 1949 the number of motor cars in use once more exceeded 2 million , the 1939 figure . |
| 13 | Last year 1,150 people from the colony settled in Britain , in 1987 the number was 920 , and only 860 in 1986 . |
| 14 | Between 1977 and 1981 , the season For hunting Dall 's porpoise Increased from 4 months to 10 months , and in 1987 the number of boats hunting the dolphins and porpoises in the area increased from 200 to 350 . |
| 15 | In 1987 the number of people shot dead in Britain by the police using firearms was five . |
| 16 | In 1957 there were just 140 lifers in prison ; thirty years later , in 1987 the number had grown to over 2,200 , of whom about one in five had received their life sentence for an offence other than murder . |
| 17 | Will the Minister confirm that since the previous election in 1987 the number of youngsters in primary schools who are taught in classes of more than 30 has increased by 100,000 ? |
| 18 | The survey indicated that in general the number of divisional libraries is small . |
| 19 | In general the number of European galleries participating is fairly low and the majority are from Los Angeles or Maine . |
| 20 | By the third census in 1763 the number of households had reduced to 500 , and the inhabitants to roughly 3,000 . |
| 21 | While the number of tenements held of the manor came to fifty-two , the number of separate farms totalled seventy-three , resulting of course in an increase in the number of smaller units , both absolutely and relatively ; in particular the number below 10 acres amounted to forty-five ( 62 per cent ) compared with twenty-eight ( 54 per cent ) head tenancies . |
| 22 | Fourth , and in some places a reversal of the previous trend , the number of hedgerow trees had either declined less rapidly or even started to increase ( apart from major losses due to Dutch Elm disease as in Warwickshire ) , and in particular the number of saplings had markedly increased . |
| 23 | ‘ The staff ’ were delighted with the turnout , and in particular the number of new faces that attended . |
| 24 | In 1937 the number of births and level of fertility did rise . |
| 25 | The difficulties for employment , are that due to the drop in the birth rate in 64–77 the number of school leavers has dropped — 5.7 million in 1991 compared with 6.2 million in 1986 , with a projected drop to 4.9 million by 1996 . |
| 26 | During the previous twenty-five years Chesterfield 's burial totals never rose to more than seventy per annum and were usually at a much lower level , but in 1587 the number of recorded deaths reached a staggering 313 . |
| 27 | In 1996 the number of people in prison per 100,000 of the population was appreciably higher in England and Wales than in Australia ( at 93 compared to 70 respectively ) . |
| 28 | Since the CNAA approved external examiners , it is worth noting that in 1968–69 the number of examiners from universities was 461 , with eight from colleges and forty-three others . |
| 29 | This can be seen in both the number of institutions , organizations and campaigns that have been established but also in the wide range of activities undertaken , including research and information work , programme and service development , organization and union building , campaign and lobby work and solidarity networking . |
| 30 | Yet the First World War produced exactly the opposite result : after an initial rise from 120,000 in 1914 to 600,000 in 1915 the number of children taking meals fell to 75,000 in 1918 — caused , of course , by the fact that improved employment opportunities and higher real wages brought about by the war economy lifted an increasing number of parents above the eligibility level . |