1. There are a considerable number of nurses from the Anglophone Caribbean who work in the United Kingdom and an even greater number in the United States .
2. There are a substantial number of nurses from the Anglophone Caribbean working in the United Kingdom and an even greater number in the United States .

Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
pick from the following.
(a). no;
(b). yes;...I think the answer is
(b).