The phrase "a number of loud" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It could be used in a sentence where you are describing multiple loud things or people, but it needs additional information to be clear.
Example: "A number of loud voices filled the room during the debate."
Alternatives: "several loud" or "many loud".
At its height 45 firefighters tackled the blaze at a factory off Enterprise Way after a number of loud bangs were reported around lunchtime, caused by gas cylinders exploding.
The Borderline killer and his mother had supposedly had a number of loud arguments.
"There are a number of loud activists who will resist virtually every level of regulation," Toronto-based cannabis lawyer Trina Fraser told VICE News.
The students threw heavy stones at the bus, hit it (and the passengers inside) with sticks and tossed a number of loud flash-bang type things beneath the wheels.
After sending a number of terribly loud volleys, the cannoneers stepped back to the shade of a tree line, and I introduced myself to three of them, seated around a plastic gallon of water.
The oddest thing to me is that we don't need to be in all this confusion but there are a number of very loud sources of disinformation keeping meaningless debate alive and stifling true discussion.
Over the past three years, I have observed an increasing number of loud and angry exchanges between board members and between board and staff members.
That is why rockers Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Chan Marshall (Cat Power), and JD Samson (Le Tigre) are among a number of self-professed "loud women" supporting a new educational platform for high-school-age girls, School of Doodle.
The first episode of series five has a number of laugh-out-loud moments, but on the whole it emulates the style of the first series.
Down Under's humour can be a little one note (xenophobic idiot and/or agitated party does something stupid, repeat) but there are a number of laugh-out-loud moments and the cast and crew do a uniformly strong job executing a difficult premise.
I mean, I laughed out loud a number of times, but not nearly as much".
