How to Use in number in a Sentence

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  • Phoebe Bridgers was the night’s top winner in number of awards won.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Reid said during the early days of the league Black players were small in number.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • And then what's happened to strikes since 2013 and in number and location?
    CBS News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • These kinds of storms have increased in number in recent decades.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • But both sides have come closer to war of late as clashes across the border have grown in number and scale.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 14 June 2024
  • Sure enough, the beta cells increased in number by 700% within three months of the treatment.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 14 July 2024
  • Both species have dropped in number, but researchers debate which threat is the biggest.
    Christina Couch, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • This group may be small in number but is big in talent and character!
    Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • For the last seven years, my daughter has lived with me along with her children, who have grown in number from one to three in that short time.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Now, thanks to God’s strong and compassionate hand, the Jews are a stronger nation, mighty in number, ready to enter the land of Israel.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 31 May 2022
  • But drones, which have only increased in number over the course of the war, can make that too dangerous, forcing soldiers to stay put for longer.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The weather service in Mobile expects storms to increase in number this morning ahead of a cold front.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Tickets cost $32 and are limited in number, and will likely sell out.
    Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, some questions are more relevant to one candidate than the other, but those should be equal in number for each.
    Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • Though fewer in number, there are also type 1 and type 3 vaccine virus outbreaks.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 May 2023
  • And to complicate things still, sometimes CFMs differ for the types of pollutants, varying in number from pollen to dust.
    Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2023
  • As Colorado podcasts have grown in number — with more than 100 series by our count — the options have become dizzying.
    John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, great horned and barred owls have grown in number and range, likely responsible for the demise of the screech owl, Pfannmuller noted.
    John Myers, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
  • And then there have been studies that show some reductions in employment or in number of hours worked compared with a control group.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 25 July 2024
  • Amid the rubble left by the result, the work has exposed a crack in the foundation of other conjectures in number theory.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Though they’re not singled out by name, the platforms that would qualify as big enough to pay up are small in number but large in influence, namely Google and Meta.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • Those riders are not under NDA but are limited in number.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Book challenges are not new to school and public libraries, but recent bans have been unprecedented in number and scope.
    Allison Slater Tate, Parents, 31 July 2023
  • On the flip side is the U.K. countryside, which rivals Croatia in number of festivals, both large and boutique.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2024
  • In Kelly’s version of this evolution, recounted in Larkin’s opening statement, the shift was not just in number but in kind.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The Fallout A number of other conjectures in number theory may now be in doubt.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Instead of skipping over the Dolphins’ pick, which would have been No. 21 overall, the draft will run in number order accordingly.
    Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Morris says that her own experience, growing up in number five houses, fit the bill.
    Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 17 July 2023
  • Students from India powered the surge, growing in number by 35%, while those from China slightly declined but remained the largest group.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Remarkably, this increase in size rivals the peak growth rate of aggressive cancer cells that double in number each day.
    Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022

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