The phrase "a number of mini" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It can be used when referring to several small items or concepts, but it needs to be followed by a noun to be complete.
Example: "We have a number of mini projects to complete this semester."
Alternatives: "several small" or "a variety of mini".
so there have concocted this consensual approach… The problem with this is they do not seem to exercise full control over the armed militias, who may well, in a vacuum of authority, produce a strongman, or a number of mini strongmen in various regions around Libya.
A number of mini prisons known as "house blocks" will also be built at existing jails.
Mercedes say that even though the car looks the same as last season's on the outside, it has a number of "mini revolutions" inside.
Seedcamp, for example, hosts a number of "mini" Seedcamp or 1-day events in various countries in hunt of the best teams for its program.
Phone makers are clearly aiming to spread out the love in terms of phone sizes, with a number of "mini" handsets making their way into stores recently.
The Game Show Network's Web site is host to a number of mini games lampooning people in the news and this week they've decided to take on Saddam's death sentence.
Street Pass also contains a number of mini-games that can only be competed through connection with other users.
But there were a number of mini-epidemics in the region — in Ravenna, Cesena and Rimini — set off by tiger mosquitoes there.
There are also a number of mini-networks that are independent, not part of a holding group, among them Gyro, M&C Saatchi and Wieden & Kennedy.
Among the banquet of star museums offered by the culture-conscious state of Massachusetts, a feast that spreads from Boston and Cambridge to Worcester and Williamstown, a number of mini-institutions are often overlooked.
