What is "a number of"

Usage examples of "a number of".

In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership.

But many of the rebels fled, and carried on sporadic attacks, killing a number of Americans, then hiding in the mountains.

Watergate, student unrest, shifting moral codes, the worst recession in a generation, and a number of other jarring cultural shocks have all combined to create a new climate of questions and doubt.

The new arrivals, according to the embassy sources, include a number of Central Intelligence Agency specialists on Iran, in addition to diplomats and military personnel.

Democratic and Republican Parties led in the mid-nineties to a number of attempts to create independent political movements.

She made up a number of sentences before she slipped in one she truly wanted.

There were currently a number of Ganymeans at various places on Earth for various reasons, and Hunt guessed that Gina was assuming the two faces on the screen to be among them.

They pulled up in the hotel forecourt, where a number of police were standing around loosely, and went through to the front lobby.

Standing on the external pads were a number of surface lander craft from the Thurien interstellar transporter orbiting two thousand miles above.

Scirio made and took a number of calls to others elsewhere over a handset, but otherwise nobody spoke.

The flier landed in a parking area at the rear of some buildings by a traffic highway, where a number of other flying vehicles and ground vehicles were standing.

After a number of days, however, he decided it was time to sacrifice concealment and convenience for the world that lay beyond the tunneled realm of blue and green.

After a number of inquiries a long-faced macaque clad in heavy overcoat and cap finally responded.

She had to blink a number of times to accustom herself to the dim light coming through the bush.

It was deep twilight when she surprised a number of men as she scrambled her way over the horse tracks and stumbled round the mounds of house before she asked one of them if the agent was still about or had yet gone to his house which was nearby.