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
• At the conclusion of the film, a single year has passed, the family has grown in number, and the war has finally come to an end.
  — Leila Latif, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 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
• But in recent decades, as China’s economy boomed and births slowed, international adoptions of Chinese children have declined in number.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• With conflicts increasing in number and severity, UN member states’ resources are understandably stretched.
  — Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024