Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a number " in BNC.

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1 Fairview New Homes has a number of sites in North East London designed and priced for first-time buyers .
2 Equally , the responses to this problem were not pre-ordained by the state of the economy , and the choice among those responses had a number of highly significant political as well as economic ramifications .
3 Most areas have a number of these — the freesheets that will come through your letterbox as well as the ones that you can buy in a newsagent .
4 Long-nets have a number of uses .
5 But although long-nets have a number of uses the nets are exactly the same for each purpose .
6 Some communities have a number of branch houses , containing perhaps only three or four members , and some are reduced to a handful of elderly professed members .
7 However , the proposals for added emphasis paragraphs in respect of disclosures about inherent uncertainties have a number of drawbacks .
8 Compared with other financial instruments , bills have a number of distinctive features .
9 Each of these course occurrences has a number of module occurrences associated with it .
10 Discounting Bills ( or Deferred Payments ) drawn under Documentary Credits has a number of important advantages for the exporter .
11 Its internal structuring , however , may be on a geographical basis in terms of area offices and on a client basis in terms of individual officials having a number of cases to deal with .
12 A focus upon changing aspects of a rapidly developing local community embracing social , technological and ecological perspectives had a number of advantages in the eyes of the library committee : ( 1 ) they wanted to begin something that was ongoing and to which resources could be added ;
13 This novel and distinctive economic backcloth to the inter-war years had a number of important consequences for town planning .
14 Only in the last 150 years have a number of these buildings been demolished , but even so it is only in Paris , Chartres and few other instances that an open space in front of the building offers a clear view .
15 Public relations departments in large organisations have a number of channels open to them and they should utilise a mixture of these to disseminate information — notice boards , in-house journals , videos , briefings and meetings .
16 Maslow ( 1943 ) argued that individuals have a number of basic psychological and , physiological needs which an individual tries to satisfy .
17 The truth is that businesses have a number of goals .
18 Compressed hops have a number of advantages , including reduced liability for oxidation , reduced storage volume and ease of handling .
19 In many schools , computer rooms have a number of microcomputers linked into a network .
20 Windows has a number of files where it stores information about how it has been configured .
21 Issuing bonds in the form of eurobonds has a number of advantages ( discussed below ) and this method of issue has now become the dominant one .
22 AEA 's main travel agents , Wagons-Lits have a number of corporate rates agreed with hotels worldwide .
23 Such professional groupings have a number of implications for organisations .
24 However , compared to skilled manual workers , lower professionals have a number of market advantages which include greater security of employment , wider promotion opportunities , annual salary increments , and more valuable fringe benefits .
25 Similarly , many Eastern languages have a number of names for " rice " depending on the state of growth of the plant and the manner in which it is cooked .
26 By the inter-war years such Sikh artisans had a number of Kenyan assistants adopting their skills ; by the 1950s the Sikhs were moving on to the role of investor and entrepreneur in both construction and industry , leaving the way clear for their former assistants to take on the role of artisan .
27 These results have a number of possible implications for a graduated test scheme which will be taken up in more detail in later chapters .
28 Fine Art Facsimile Publishers have a number of weighty manuscripts under their belts , including the Book of Kells and the duc de Berry 's Book of Hours .
29 To achieve this most hotels have a number of systems , all provided by different suppliers , on which the staff come to rely totally , ’ she says .
30 Unification-grammar formalisms have a number of advantages for natural language processing .
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