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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • While garish new homes and flashy new office buildings are altering the capital’s small-town feel, restaurants and bars are still few in number, and tend to close early.
    — Simon Romero Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The nominations were large in number (as many as 10 nominees in some categories) and spread across many theaters.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The researchers recruited 17 epilepsy patients and showed them flashes of dots, ranging in number from one to nine, on computer screens.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Female Indian Air Force pilots, too, have been growing in number—there were 16 of them till this February.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 21 June 2022
  • Police in California say ghost guns have been surging in number and put lethal weapons in the hands of criminals and teenagers who cannot legally buy a gun from a licensed dealer.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • As the suburban drop-offs near Chicago have grown in number, residents who are concerned about the well-being of the migrants have raised funds and collected supplies.
    — Julie Bosman, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The buses packed with Venezuelan migrants are now arriving in downtown Chicago day and night, doubling in number in recent weeks.
    — Julie Bosman, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023

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