a number

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The aircraft's first phase of testing successfully met a number of important objectives and produced valuable data for engineers.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

However, SpotGamma, the options-market analysis company, warns that there are a number of events occurring in the middle of June that pose a threat to the resolute bullishness.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

At their meetings in April, ECB officials left the key rate unchanged, but an account of the gathering released last week showed a number of officials were ready to back a hike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

There are a number of obvious factors which have combined to blow open the singles draws - injury, sickness, the ageing process and the unusual heatwave which hit Paris.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Just as multiplying by a number stretches the number line, dividing shrinks it.

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