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
• These kinds of storms have increased in number in recent decades.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• Not many fictional alien species get namechecked in number one records.
  — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• This group may be small in number but is big in talent and character!
  — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
• But new occupations and jobs arose that were greater in number.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• Both species have dropped in number, but researchers debate which threat is the biggest.
  — Christina Couch, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 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
• The group in the state's 11th-largest city organized and grew in number.
  — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
• Reid said during the early days of the league Black players were small in number.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2022
• Far greater in number are those artists whose musical output pushed them out of their home country.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Oct. 2024
• But cones aren’t distributed equally throughout the eye and vary in number.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
• Many Great Lakes states lead the nation in number of data centers.
  — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Though fewer in number, there are also type 1 and type 3 vaccine virus outbreaks.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 May 2023
• Tickets cost $32 and are limited in number, and will likely sell out.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• And then what's happened to strikes since 2013 and in number and location?
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2022
• Morris says that her own experience, growing up in number five houses, fit the bill.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 17 July 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
• Hunting permits for sheep in all but two of the districts are limited in number and are issued by drawing.
  — Ray Alt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2025
• Sure enough, the beta cells increased in number by 700% within three months of the treatment.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 14 July 2024
• Their ranks had swelled in number that day for the occasion, and the feeling was extra exuberant.
  — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 12 Oct. 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
• 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
• The weather service in Mobile expects storms to increase in number this morning ahead of a cold front.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 28 Mar. 2023
• Ants can suddenly appear in kitchens, dining rooms, and other areas of the home, growing in number each day.
  — Rabekah Henderson, The Spruce, 3 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• The stocks participating in the sector are growing in number, and some are more involved in the space than others.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 22 Jan. 2025
• The uptick in number and size of glacial lakes is expected to increase the frequency of outburst flooding events in the future.
  — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
• That matches Google's Pixel line in number of years, if likely not in deployment speed.
  — Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025