Example sentences of "[num] [art] numbers " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1987/88 and 1989/90 the numbers of teachers taking early retirement rose from 7,574 to 12,343 . |
| 2 | The freeing on Feb. 26 of Michele Greco ( " The Pope " ) , head of the Corleone Mafia clan , brought to around 30 the numbers released since Feb. 18 and intensified protests in political and judicial circles . |
| 3 | Also , although there were marked fluctuations in the number of admissions from year to year , it is clear that from about 1490 the numbers of those admitted at York were consistently lower than they had been from the mid 1380s to the 1440s . |
| 4 | 7 The numbers of people who have moved . |
| 5 | By the 1740s the numbers were increasing , although the best women poets , including Mary Leapor and Mary Jones , tended to be rather behind the times , modelling their work on Pope and Swift rather than responding to the new trend toward sensibility at mid-century . |
| 6 | Figure 5.11 The numbers stored in the memory banks shown in Figure 5.9 represent the intensity of the colour displayed at the equivalent point on the TV monitor screen . |
| 7 | While continuing a policy of pushing up rents , the Government began to curtail expenditure on the housing benefit scheme , and by 1987–8 the numbers claiming rent rebates had fallen to 3.7 million , and those claiming rate rebates to 7.1 million . |
| 8 | The workforce at Sullom Voe increased from around 1500 early in 1977 to over 6500 in 1979 and over 7200 in 1980 ; in 1981 the numbers fell to over 3000 with further declines thereafter . |
| 9 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 10 | Between 1978 and 1987 the numbers of groupworkers employed in Flanders rose by 25 per cent ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) , and the number of Dutch groupworkers doubled between 1959 and 1982 ( Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | In defence of their economic record , government spokesmen have claimed that from the second quarter of 1983 the numbers in employment increased and that more jobs were being created in Britain than in the rest of the EEC states taken together . |
| 12 | Normally , increases or reductions in publishing output tend to be undramatic , but in the 1980s the numbers of new titles published annually have gone up very substantially indeed — increases not on the whole matched by additions to library bookfunds . |
| 13 | Second , the age at which people marry is closely related to their ability to set up an independent household , and for women who married under the age of 20 the numbers sharing accommodation with relatives changed little between the 1950s and the 1970s ( Holman , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | In general practice between 1950 and 1990 the numbers of NHS general practitioner principals increased from 19000 to 33000 — from 43 to 62 per 100000 population ( an increase of 44% ) — and the mean list size decreased from 2500 to below 1900 ( a 24% fall ) . |
| 15 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |