The phrase "a number of ambiguous" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple instances or items that are unclear or open to interpretation.
Example: "There are a number of ambiguous statements in the report that need clarification."
Alternatives: "several unclear" or "many vague".
The decision clarifies a number of ambiguous issues regarding how Sergio's unlawful status in the US and general employment restrictions on undocumented immigrants impacts his ability to practice law.
Recent work on these issues has led to a number of ambiguous, sometimes contradictory results.
A number of ambiguous connections or loops in the resulting haplotype networks were broken using the criteria in Crandall and Templeton (1993).
However, as only two A. fraterculus sequenced in-house and a single sequence of A. suspensa from GenBank containing a number of ambiguous base calls are contained in this data set, further data are clearly needed to clarify the situation in this OTU.
In 1989, as a theologian, he declared that "the absolute condemnation of same-sex relationships of intimacy must rely... on an abstract fundamentalist deployment of a number of very ambiguous texts".
Luckily, the premiere speaks for itself, offering a gripping, handsomely-produced hour laden with mystery, a slew of creative (and disgusting) special effects, and a number of intriguingly ambiguous characters, lead by "Breaking Bad's" Dean Norris, "Pan Am's" Mike Vogel and "Twilight's" Rachelle Lefevre.
Strain GO 06 was excluded from the analysis because its genome harbors a large number of ambiguous nucleotides and an unusual hybrid appearance with fragments of M. abscessus subsp. massiliense and M. abscessus subsp. abscessus sequences.
Quality trimmed reads were obtained by quality trimming in CLC Genomics Workbench v6.5.1 (CLC Inc., Aarhus, Denmark) based on a quality score limit of 0.05 and a maximum number of ambiguous nucleotides of 2. Quality trimming was based on the Phred quality scores (Q) from the fastq read files as follows.
"Gold Standard Sangerr sequence-based genotyping usually amplifies a minimal number of exons per allele, resulting in a large number of ambiguous allele calls.
The most common type of so-called "problem" sequences had a high number of ambiguous nucleotides, denoted by 'N' instead of A, C, G or T. The binning step was intended to facilitate efficiency of assembly.
By making a large number of ambiguous statements in each sitting, the psychic gives the client more opportunities to find a match.
