Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adj] number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage . |
| 2 | This system , which is discussed in detail by Montgomery and Wallace leads to a fairly high number of accesses required to retrieve records from a well-aged file , i.e. one that has had a large number of additions or deletions since it was last loaded . |
| 3 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
| 4 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 5 | After the hearing a company spokesman said : ‘ Kwik Save has a vast number of stores throughout the country and we do take this area very seriously . |
| 6 | To avoid having a large number of small accounts in the ledger it is often the case in some hotels to ask members of groups or parties to pay for ‘ extras ’ at time of service . |
| 7 | Most constables would like to have a reasonable number of dramatic or at least interesting crimes to deal with . |
| 8 | Obviously it is strangers to the area who are misled by this sign but we do have a large number of visitors to Scorton who enjoy walking the paths . |
| 9 | Across the great divide the hotly coloured landscapes by Evgeni Dybski , from Konsyanza in Romania , and the even larger Fauvist Landscapes by Londonborn Lucy Jones , would seem to have a considerable number of points in common . |
| 10 | While ET is a rubbishy , cheap labour scheme , youth training for 16–18 year-olds does have a minimum number of guaranteed training weeks . |
| 11 | The United States is another strong advocate of the air quality management approach , although it does have a large number of emission standards and has also recently introduced aspects of an economics-based strategy . |
| 12 | Well , at certain times we have had a large number of Bengali patients . |
| 13 | Both my classes , the one on semantics and the one on pragmatics , have had a large number of students on them , which is gratifying in suggesting their popularity , but I shall pay the penalty when I have to mark all their papers . |