Example sentences of "have 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 | Well , at certain times we have had a large number of Bengali patients . |
| 5 | 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 . |