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The phrase "a large number" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an amount that is significantly greater than average. For example: "The hurricane caused a large number of power outages throughout the region."
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Factoring a large number is also a good example of what is referred to as an NP problem.
Many online tools show how many of a company's followers are fake, and a large number is a big turnoff.
To maximise satisfaction for Brexit voters who were motivated by desire to cut immigration – not all of them, but a large number – is to sabotage the economy.
Of the millions of possible Harvard Chart of Accounts (CoA) combinations (called CCIDs), a large number is selected and loaded to Fieldglass nightly so that they are available when requisitioning a contingent worker.
In recent decades, theorists have devised clever algorithms for telling whether a large number is prime, but none that could be proven to work quickly.
To put this in context: 14 million downloads — while a large number — is nothing compared to the numbers Apple's App Store achieved when it launched in 2008: 10 million downloads in its first three days.
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"A large number are in prison.
Of those, a large number are in graduate programs abroad.
A large number are family-run, and therefore less mobile.
"A large number are coalescing and forming a group..
And a large number were deeply fond of him.
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