a number

Example Sentences

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Although legal costs surged, Feldstein Soto said she did her best to mitigate damage on a number of difficult cases she inherited when taking office in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Michael Muckian, chair of the Cooley Peninsula Community Alert group, said: "The boat got into difficulty in the early afternoon and there is currently a number of boats on the lough still searching."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Broadcom’s stock strikes Wall Street as a winner in a number of respects, especially after Alphabet shared more information about how it plans to finance its artificial-intelligence ambitions.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Pride organizations struggled to secure enough corporate sponsorships to fund their events after a number of big-name brands pulled back last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The number-shape duality in Greek numbers made it easy; after all, zero didn’t have a shape and could thus not be a number.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife