Sentence examples for a number of borders from inspiring English sources

António Guterres, UN commissioner for refugees, told the Guardian: "While countries neighbouring the conflict are being asked to keep their borders open, I find it disconcerting how many Syrians struggle to find protection in Europe, with reports of people being pushed back from a number of borders.

But in terms of doing a service in flagging up the appalling havoc and ruination of young lives and brutality that the Lord's Resistance Army and Joseph Kony have caused, not just in northern Uganda but across a number of borders, and the importance of him facing justice and being brought to book so that peace and security can be developed in those areas, I'm absolutely behind it.

Therefore, the shortest path between any two points in the space will pass through a number of borders between convex areas, as long as the points are not located in the same convex area (Fig. 1).

In recent months, Iran also has had a number of border skirmishes with Isis.

#iraq June 24, 2014 The Anbar Daily blog describes an "aerial bombardment by Syrian regime planes of a number of border positions in Al-Qa'im including the town's central marketplace".

A spokesman for the Israeli police, Micky Rosenfeld, said that a number of Border Police operations "had prevented attempts to transfer rockets" from Gaza to the West Bank in recent years.

Open warfare began on Sept. 22, 1980, when Iraqi armed forces invaded western Iran along the countries' joint border, though Iraq claimed that the war had begun earlier that month, on September 4, when Iran shelled a number of border posts.

According to its terms, France gained Roussillon and Cerdagne in the south and Artois and a number of border towns in the north; and the Rhine became France's frontier in the east.

On one recent trip, a number of border policemen told me they had been brought up by stepmothers and joined the police because they were not well looked after.

China has the world's longest land border, so it's no surprise it has had a number of border disputes.

Since there are a much larger number of regional borders than a number of national borders in EU economies, this might be the reason for having different speeds of convergence across different levels.