Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [vb pp] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 2 | Under the STV as well as in an exhaustive ballot a candidate doomed to exclusion may have received a number of votes that is substantial and only marginally smaller than the number received by the candidate next above him in the relevant count . |
| 3 | Greater care , also , in the proofreading would have prevented a number of misprints in the presentation material . |
| 4 | I can be sure that real teachers would have avoided a number of APU 's blunders . |
| 5 | I can be sure that real teachers would have avoided a number of APU 's blunders . |
| 6 | Asda may have helped a number of youngsters make up their minds this year with their special offer on Lichfield aftershave lotion . |
| 7 | The document should have provoked a number of doubts in your mind . |
| 8 | He believes that such vast and unexpected escapes of sub-global meltwater might have occurred a number of times as the ice sheets broke up at the end the Ice Age . |
| 9 | Beefy Obispal would have enjoyed a number of those ladies ' favours since the fighting died away . |