Example sentences of "in [noun prp] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wellingborough the number of male boot and shoe makers rose from 613 in 1841 to 814 in 1851 and to 861 in 1861 ; female numbers rose from a mere 37 in 1841 to 473 in 1851 and to 744 a decade later . |
| 2 | They hold as high positions as that and they run ministries , and I 'd like to add that in Kuwait the number of women deans in the Kuwait university is the highest in the world , so the woman is working side-by-side by the man , and we are very proud of them , we always have been , and especially after the invasion when I was in Kuwait on the fourth day the people who went in the streets chanting against the Iraqui invasion were the Kuwaiti women . |
| 3 | In Buckinghamshire the number of lace workers fell from a peak of 10,487 in 1851 to only 789 in 1901 ; in Bedfordshire the number declined less spectacularly from 5,734 to 1,144 during the same period . |
| 4 | In Buckinghamshire the number of lace workers fell from a peak of 10,487 in 1851 to only 789 in 1901 ; in Bedfordshire the number declined less spectacularly from 5,734 to 1,144 during the same period . |
| 5 | In Bristol the number of voluntary liquidations fell from 368 to 301 , while in the south west they rose to 189 from 168 . |
| 6 | For children under 5 in Lothian the number of casualties in 1991 was nearly one third greater than the 1981–85 baseline total , whereas for Scotland as a whole casualties in this age group rose by less than 5% . |
| 7 | In Northallerton it was 875 ( 4.1pc ) this month compared to 887 ( 4.2pc ) last month ; in Richmondshire it was 925 ( 5.7pc ) down from 950 ( 5.9pc ) ; And in Thirsk the number of unemployed people fell by 0.1pc from 332 to 326 . |
| 8 | In France the number of railway workers increased from 27,900 in 1851 to 113,000 in 1866 , 222,800 in 1881 , 308,000 in 1907 , 355,600 in 1913 . |
| 9 | Not only did the non-working bourgeois become increasingly frequent — in Cologne the number of rentiers paying income tax grew from 162 in 1854 to almost 600 in 1874 — but how else except by spending was the successful bourgeois , whether or not he held political power as a class , to demonstrate his conquest ? |
| 10 | In Asia the number of refugees appeared to be relatively stable with Pakistan still housing an estimated 3,300,000 Afghan refugees . |
| 11 | Elsewhere in Darlington the number of crimes has remained high although here has been a slight decline in some common crimes . |
| 12 | In Gloucestershire the number of young offenders cuationed has risen in the last 2 years from 44% to 70% . |