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The phrase "a number of pellets" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple pellets in a context such as discussing ammunition, food, or any small round objects.
Example: "The scientist collected a number of pellets from the experiment to analyze their composition."
Alternatives: "several pellets" or "a few pellets".
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Shotgun, smoothbore shoulder weapon designed to fire a number of pellets, or shot, that spread in a diverging pattern after they leave the muzzle.
Each of the two mixtures was compacted in a die into a number of pellets.
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Passerine feathers were found in a large number of pellets collected during the two bird migration periods.
A stable number of pellets were usually found after this first period.
In the model presented this initial process was described by assuming both suspended hyphae and a fixed number of pellets.
Rather than providing the temporal and spatial average of a large number of pellets, the OCT sensor characterized local pellet properties of up to 130 individual pellets per minute.
From the 6th 10th sessions, both groups of animals obtained a similar number of pellets per session (WT, 23.2 ± 2.1; KO, 22.1 ± 2.6, p = 0.152, Student's t-test; not illustrated).
Diffusional limitations on the various reactions were accounted for through effectiveness factors, averaged over the operating conditions and calculated from a number of off line pellet simulations.
A programme by the American plastics industry that resulted in a decrease in the number of pellets in the water is still insufficient to explain the data.
Downscaling raises the question: is there a lower limit to the number of pellets that ought to be tested in a reactor so that the results do not depend on which pellets are sampled?
Doctors treating the wounded have said a number of people have had pellets and "nail-like" fragments removed from their bodies, and there are reports of several amputations.
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