Example sentences of "[num] of students " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although about two-thirds of students still came from the gentry estate , an increasing proportion of them seem to have been poor . |
| 2 | Feminists threw their weight behind Mrs Killea 's campaign , and hundreds of students attended a rally in support of abortion rights . |
| 3 | There were always hundreds of students asking their foreign teachers for this ‘ favour ’ to get them over the first hurdle of the going abroad process . |
| 4 | It was his great satisfaction in retirement to know that he was held in deep affection by many hundreds of students who were fortunate enough to come under his caring influence . ’ |
| 5 | Hundreds of students have just begun their first term and computers are essential in just about every subject . |
| 6 | Sporadic student troubles during April hardened into protest demonstrations during May , with the use of tear gas against hundreds of students and schoolchildren in the streets of Bangui and reports of violence and destruction . |
| 7 | When hundreds of students tried to proceed along them they very speedily became totally blocked . |
| 8 | Overall , four-fifths of students were studying on courses that finished in September 1984 ( Table 3.6 ) . |
| 9 | The man who stunned millions of students with his ‘ punk rock ’ group Rapeman . |
| 10 | In it 's short life , the Open University has seen tens of thousands of graduates , and literally millions of students … nearly all of them without an academic background . |
| 11 | In the District , and in contrast to the national trend , Tutorial Classes virtually doubled between 1925 and 1931 — from thirteen to twenty-five and their membership was composed of about one-third of students from manual occupations . |
| 12 | in spite of continuing claims of IT skill shortages in 1984 , one-third of students completing IT Advanced Courses did not have a job to go to and were seeking employment at the end of their courses ; |
| 13 | THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics . |
| 14 | Like thousands of students before him , Gedge merely adopted the clichéd student maxims of leftist rhetoric , irrational idealism and an Oxfam season ticket . |
| 15 | In the case of the Open University it is obviously worthwhile to produce well-designed audio-visual material that can be used for teaching thousands of students . |
| 16 | One tenth of Berlin 's city funds go on the universities , which still attract tens of thousands of students from the ‘ mainland ’ of West Germany . |
| 17 | Thousands of students left their dormitories , enraged by the attitude of the authorities over election procedures and their refusal to permit change . |
| 18 | Urumqi ( Urumchi ) , the capital of Xinjiang province , saw thousands of students take to the streets in large demonstrations at the end of the year . |
| 19 | The local party leader in Shanghai , Jiang Zemin , attempted to deter the first demonstration by personally addressing thousands of students at the Jiaotong campus on 19 December , Jiang was a technocrat and moderniser whose future success in the party seemed certain . |
| 20 | Thousands of students , particularly from Beijing , were sent to undertake ‘ social practice ’ during the summer vacation in the hope that contact With ‘ real life ’ would bring them down to earth and give them a more realistic assessment of society . |
| 21 | Several days of unrest followed which spread across the country and involved thousands of students . |
| 22 | It has served to illuminate and inspire many thousands of students , teachers and academics throughout the world . |
| 23 | And yet decade after decade thousands of students were drawn into radical activity . |
| 24 | When thousands of students began their peaceful protest in Tiananmen Square last spring , the eyes of the world turned towards China . |
| 25 | Thousands of students annually attempt important examinations without any practice at all ! |
| 26 | Professor Vo Quy is greeted warmly not only in his native village but also in every corner of Vietnam , where he is hailed as the architect of Vietnam 's regreening programme and a mentor who has inspired thousands of students , colleagues and high government representatives to become conservationists . |
| 27 | So that erm , nobody really kn was the most monotonous job when you had to erm assess literally thousands of students in the end . |
| 28 | The truth is that we are dealing not with one-off exceptional cases of hardship , affecting only a small minority of students , but with a widespread and damaging problem affecting thousands of students . |
| 29 | Police used tear gas and baton charges on Nov. 15 , 1989 , to prevent thousands of students from storming into the Turkish sector of Nicosia in a protest against the division of the island . |
| 30 | Thousands of students demonstrated in Cairo the following day in protest at the death of one student in the fracas . |