Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] a [adj] number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've met a great number of very interesting people , ’ he murmurs . |
| 2 | And I think we 've seen a good number of those erm from the Telegraph , the Mail and the Express , going to the Times . |
| 3 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 4 | You 've got a limited number of slots to sell so you do n't need to go thrashing around the country |
| 5 | Well because if , if we got , if we say you 've got a certain number of members of staff , and each full time equivalent offers you two hundred and twenty two point eight working days a year . |
| 6 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 7 | And that was er duly inside , you 've got a fair number of spares on that . |
| 8 | Over the years I 've encountered a fair number of weird and wonderful marketing ideas , but perhaps none more eye-catching than Sony 's new mid-price ‘ Dinner Classics ’ series . |