Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is consistent both with politicians being larger than people who simply wish to be in office whatever they have to do , and with parties having a central number of supporters who share an ideology . |
| 2 | Some computers have a large number of different numeric data.types . |
| 3 | All three Welsh areas had a high number of family units where at least one member had attended formal training , whilst in Orkney and Wester Ross there was one and none respectively . |
| 4 | ‘ But these other places have a certain number of amenities — physiotherapist , chiropodist , hairdresser . ’ |
| 5 | I suppose it is a spectator sport of a sort but from the operator 's viewpoint the presence of uninitiated onlookers has a great number of debit points . |
| 6 | Affected males have a normal number of pre-B cells in their bone marrow , suggesting that the XLA defect resides in the pathway of B-cell development . |
| 7 | Although the electrodynamometer is free of hysteresis , it is insensitive unless the coils have a large number of turns which makes both the resistance and inductance high , the latter severely restricting the frequency range of operation . |
| 8 | Footpaths through parks have a significant number of users who are actually pedestrians en route to another destination , but such use depends on the accident of alignment rather than any attempt to meet defined flows through conscious planning . |
| 9 | These decision-making systems have a considerable number of assumptions built into them and there must be an agreed value system . |