Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trailed by three goals to one , they 'd missed a number of chances in the second period , and after Steve Bull had put Wolves three nil up with a hat trick in the opening twenty four minutes . |
| 2 | They 've enlisted a number of world ranked players to their mens and ladies squads and are looking like favourites to win the premier league title . |
| 3 | Now having said that I mean the late long established er unit trust group , I mean as a , as a company we 've got to be very careful who we use , we 've got an approved list erm in London and in Bournemouth we have erm a , a department which analyzes products , and those products come onto our approved list when they 've , when they 've fulfilled a number of criteria . |
| 4 | They 've got quite a few of these at erm at , at the Railway Trust , they 've er they 've got a number of these signal boxes . |
| 5 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |
| 6 | Venture capital giant 3i had not used executive search at all in the past four years but mentioned that they had lost a number of people through headhunters . |
| 7 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 8 | They have conducted a number of Antique Roadshows in different part of the diocese , and would be pleased to hear from parish secretaries who would like to the come to the parishes . |
| 9 | In pursuit of this goal they have developed a number of specialized techniques . |
| 10 | However , although that enumeration may appear exhaustive , the ingenuity of the legislative institutions is such that they have adopted a number of other Acts outside those categories such as , for example , action programmes , codes of conduct , resolutions . |
| 11 | They have identified a number of problem areas which raise some environmental problems to very definite housing problems . |
| 12 | They have produced a number of published manifestos condemning US congressional interference in El Salvador and adamantly opposing any dialogue with the FDR : |
| 13 | There is still some poaching between the major executive search firms and Korn/Ferry founded their worldwide business on doing this in a very successful way , but more recently they have had a number of losses themselves both to Russell Reynolds in the States and Heidrick and Struggles in Europe . |