How to Use a number of in a Sentence

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  • In their place, City have signed a number of younger players with a point to prove.
    — Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • But some unorthodox beauty turned heads at a number of shows.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
  • Dell offers a number of loadouts for this laptop, but this one has the most impressive discount.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Our bargaining team reached agreement with the union on a number of issues and remains ready to continue discussions at any time.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 30 June 2026
  • My process mining company has worked with a number of mid-market organizations.
    — Prathamesh Bhingarde, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Such adoption is important for a number of reasons, but two in particular should stand out to investors and policymakers alike.
    — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The oil’s powerhouse formula has a number of benefits, including brightening skin and fading age spots.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 26 June 2026
  • One of the main suspects was George Hodel, a doctor who was friends with a number of celebrities and reportedly held hedonistic parties.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 June 2026
  • On June 4, Read filed a lawsuit and released a number of disturbing text messages sent by Proctor and Goode.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • Although Rashid has completed a number of residential interiors, this is his first time designing a whole house.
    — Dean Kaufman, Curbed, 30 June 2026
  • Friedman also struck down a number of those new restrictions, but the escort policy has remained in place as the Pentagon pursued an appeal.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 June 2026
  • There are a number of ways to bet on soccer -- there is the moneyline, which includes the 90 minutes, and then up to another 30 minutes of extra time.
    — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • However, a number of other teams will have the requisite cap space to sign him, including the Golden State Warriors.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • Three people died of drug overdoses after attending events there, and in recent years a number of dead bodies were retrieved from the nearby Newtown Creek.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • How to find pools, splashpads in Philadelphia The City of Philadelphia has a number of public pools and splashpads to stop by this summer.
    — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • The dogs were found to be living in unsuitable conditions, while the puppies were suffering from malnutrition, and a number of the dogs had additional medical conditions as well.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • The fintech Stripe worked with the venture firm Paradigm, along with a number of design partners, to launch Tempo, a blockchain created to support stablecoin payments.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Advantages And Future Prospects Changing the idea of compliance to constant assurance has a number of benefits.
    — Ramachander Rao Thallada, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Obsession is now live across a number of stores including Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV, but there’s something weird going on with the latter.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Opportunities And Prospects The shift between the old compliance to the ongoing assurance offers a number of advantages.
    — Ramachander Rao Thallada, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • While a number of groups, including Tsai, have invested multiple times in PLL, Rabil said that with each funding round the group typically sought a leading role from a new banker.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 June 2026
  • This was the Lamine Yamal of his day, who broke through to the first team in 2019 as a 16-year-old and similarly smashed a number of youngest goalscorer and appearance maker records for club and country.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • With that in mind, a number of the Project 2029 proposals are designed to be enacted without congressional approval, using the presidential bully pulpit to do things like call for a phone-free childhood.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 29 June 2026
  • Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, is playing host to thousands of visitors and a number of events as the country celebrates 250 years over the Fourth of July weekend.
    — Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Chelsea have a number of options to play out wide as things stand in Estevao, Pedro Neto, Alejandro Garnacho, Jamie Gittens, and new arrival Geovany Quenda.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • The Boston Red Sox have watched a number of young pitchers work their way through the organization's farm system in recent years, with the likes of Payton Tolle and Connelly Early emerging as key rotation members this season, for instance.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • With extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies going into effect around the globe for a number of categories from packaging to batteries, the potential implications and opportunities for the textile industry remain unclear.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
  • Copenhagen is joined in the top 10 by a number of Scandinavian cities, with Helsinki, Finland; Uppsala, Sweden; Trondheim, Norway; Malmö, Sweden; and Aarhus, Denmark, all ranking highly.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026

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