Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [vb pp] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |
| 2 | It was reported in Update No 14 that SCOTVEC had commissioned a number of workshops — 10 in all — aimed at providing centres with further material to assist their staff development activities . |
| 3 | Sunday Life has learned that detectives had received a number of complaints against the businessmen after cheques bounced at banks . |
| 4 | Professionalism and sponsorship have penetrated a number of countries in Eastern Europe , most notably the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | km against Iran 's 1,648,000 ) , its society and economy had spent a number of years digesting the effects of coup and revolution , together with a good deal of supplementary drama . |
| 6 | The point was , however , that Cumberbatch and Bates had named a number of video-nasties that did not in fact exist , and yet the children claimed that they had seen them . |
| 7 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 8 | At first it had seemed that the damage was slight , just a lot of pain and some bruising , and even after X-rays had shown a number of broken bones there had still been no reason to suppose that he would n't heal . |