The phrase "a number of chain" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a number of chains" to refer to multiple chains.
Example: "A number of chains were used to secure the cargo on the ship."
Alternatives: "several chains" or "multiple chains."
Activists gathered outside a number of chain stores in central London, some wearing masks.
Budget: Charlottetown has a number of chain motels, many along charmless Route 1 a few miles from downtown.
In its application to sell salt substitutes, marinades, food colorings and cake sprinkles in Iran, McCormick & Co. listed a number of chain stores that planned to buy its products.
"The new owner has to convince the retail community that this time it's for real," said Richard Brunelli, whose company, R. J. Brunelli & Company, represented a number of chain stores that were interested in space in Xanadu years ago.
Attempting such a workaround, Alexis listed key individuals inside and outside the publishing house who might be affected by the IT department's ability to deliver the new online system, including several department heads and the buyers for a number of chain bookstores.
During the late 1970s, a number of chain restaurants around the U.S. started to install video games to capitalize on the hot new craze.
The first of a number of chains to move to Mount Kisco, Borders arrived in the mid-1990's, followed by the Gap and others.
Restaurant food need not, although a number of chains, including those Barber is suing, agreed to post or provide nutritional information after pressure from consumer groups.
Hoping to make ordering a burger as routine as ordering a book from Amazon, a number of chains are emphasizing the dot-com after their corporate name to lure the hungry and time-pressed to their Web sites.
Now Mi Pueblo is one of a number of chains around the country that have transformed shopping for the rapidly growing Hispanic population, and for their neighbors as well.
But the film states, "Romney and Bain bought the 80-year-old company in 2000, loaded it with millions in debt". It then attributes the failure of KB Toys in 2008 to that debt load, without noting that a horrible retail environment wiped out a number of chains, particularly toy stores.
