7 sentences with 'number'
Example sentences and phrases with the word number and other words derived from it.
• « Actually, the number of magi is unknown. It has been estimated that there were between two and 12, although early Christian writers set their number at three, for three were the gifts they brought: gold, frankincense and myrrh. »
• « Between 1991 and 1996, the number of murders committed in the United States fell by 20 percent, robberies by 22 percent, and violent crime in general by 12 percent. »
• « The following year, production more than doubled, and the number of workers also doubled. But when production almost doubled again in the period from 1913 to 1914, the factory no longer increased the number of its workers. »
• « In the early 1920s there were more than 5,000 black employees at Ford, and by 1926 their number had doubled: they constituted ten percent of its entire workforce. »
• « Guiler has caught a large number of Tasmanian devils in this way. Each time he checks the tattoo to determine how far the animal has travelled and examines its teeth for wear and tear. »