The phrase "a conspicuous number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a number that is easily noticeable or stands out in a particular context.
Example: "There was a conspicuous number of attendees at the event, indicating its popularity."
Alternatives: "a significant number" or "a noticeable number".
Still, it was baffling to notice a conspicuous number of empty seats at this sold-out concert.
There was also a $159 sheath in chunky black lace similar to a Prada motif from last fall — and a conspicuous number of sleeveless dresses, owing to customer demand for looks inspired by the style of Michelle Obama.
What drew a conspicuous number of consumers to some H & M locations last month was a heavily promoted team-up with Comme des Garçons, a longtime favorite label for a certain segment of stylemongers.
By Margaret Talbot November 6, 2012 If you got caught up in the "war on women" narrative this election cycle, you might have missed the fact that that a conspicuous number of women were running for the Senate today.
If you got caught up in the "war on women" narrative this election cycle, you might have missed the fact that that a conspicuous number of women were running for the Senate today.
Emeril Lagasse, the Food Network star who cooked with the Muppets on a television special in April, "Elmo's Magic Cookbook," and whose own audience includes a conspicuous number of children, has bitten the bullet and written a children's cookbook, "Emeril's There's a Chef in My Soup," to be published in March.
These results need to be confirmed in future studies with a more conspicuous number of patients and with a more controlled definition of the time of blood sampling both during the ictal and interictal period.
But even the occasionally exposed bones, the conspicuous number of amputees and people with deforming scars, and the superabundance of packed orphanages could not be taken as evidence that what had happened to Rwanda was an attempt to exterminate a people.
Increasing in number of cells was considered mild for specimens with several cells per HPF (score 1 = 5 to 10 cells), moderate (score 2 = 11 to 30) for specimens with many cells for HPF, or severe (score 3 > 30 cells) for specimens with conspicuous and very conspicuous number of cells per HPF, respectively.
But one case is a conspicuous exception: the number of 7(a) loans of $150,000 or less actually fell by about 13 percent.
Additionally, there has been a conspicuous increase in the number of species in the short period between 2005 and 2010 in both towns.
