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

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1 In this case , this stage had a mean number of er calves per year , about two , whereas this hind had a number just under one , which is about right .
2 This passage has a number of murder holes in the floor , which allowed the Castle defenders to drop various unpleasant substances on any attackers below .
3 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 .
4 Network planning of this type has a number of advantages :
5 Network planning of this type has a number of advantages :
6 unc When the left-hand array has been condensed to I , the right hand array is R. This method has a number of variants .
7 Unfortunately this method has a number of drawbacks , notably the time taken to perform the analysis .
8 Small size , unbranched and strong ribs , giving the shell a ramshorn appearance , are important characters This form has a number of related species , but the situation is complicated by the fact that some large ammonites have inner whorls looking rather like Promicroceras This specimen is from the Lias of Somerset , England .
9 Each child has a number and looks for a packet with it on , which contains a small present .
10 The stator of each stack has a number of poles Fig.l.3(b) shows an example with four poles — and a part of the phase winding is wound around each pole to produce a radial magnetic field in the pole .
11 That proposal has a number of different themes to it ; briefly , Channel Four would be floated off from the IBA and would then be franchised as any other ITV company .
12 cos each site has a number and could you have a guess at how many excavations ?
13 These results have a number of possible implications for a graduated test scheme which will be taken up in more detail in later chapters .
14 A series which is broadcast each week has a number of features designed into it to help viewers recognise " their " programme and encourage them to watch it at the same time every week .
15 Eventually they devised a support system based on levying charges in enemy territory : each fortress had a number of parishes attached to it , and these parishes were obliged to pay a levy to the commander of the garrison .
16 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 .
17 Each heading has a number of skills listed under it .
18 Any computer has a number of input/output or peripheral devices attached to it , both for communication with the outside world ( card readers , line printers , terminals , etc. ) and for augmenting the computer 's information storage capacity ( magnetic discs , magnetic tape , etc . ) .
19 Ambiguity in written English may arise from different words having the same spelling ( homonyms ) or the same word having a number of meanings .
20 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 .
21 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 .
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