The phrase "a number of surrounding" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks a noun to clarify what is being surrounded.
It can be used when referring to multiple entities or objects that are encircling or enclosing something, but it needs to be completed for clarity.
Example: "A number of surrounding buildings were affected by the storm."
Alternatives: "several surrounding" or "various surrounding".
It was formed in 2006 by the merger of Mizusawa and a number of surrounding municipalities.
Workers in White Plains, after all, can more easily commute from New York, or a number of surrounding counties.
But activists agree that Isis militants placed explosives around its base and detonated them, creating a blast so large that it also damaged a number of surrounding Roman columns.
Although now primarily a residential southwestern suburb of the New York City region, it is a focal point for a number of surrounding towns, including North and South Plainfield, Scotch Plains, Green Brook, Fanwood, and Watchung.
There are now incipient signs of a coca comeback in this frontier village of clay roads and thatched-roof huts slashed out of the jungles of the Huallaga Valley and in a number of surrounding towns in the central and northern parts of the region.
Three years later, Mr. Feinberg and four other scientists who joined him in multiple field and laboratory studies, are finally comfortable making their declaration: a new species of leopard frog — as yet unnamed — has been identified in New York City and a number of surrounding counties.
Fibers with an oxidative phenotype have a greater number of surrounding capillaries than glycolytic fibers [ 23].
Convergence charts of ACH as a function of an increasing number of surrounding building layers are generated using various urban parameters (e.g., wind condition, aspect ratio, building height relative to surroundings, downstream obstacles, and non-idealized surroundings).
Similar results were observed in another study, wherein extracellular stimulation to synchronously induced action potentials in a large number of surrounding axons to test the synaptic input onto an identified NG2 cell [ 22, 87].
These towns feature a large number of surrounding rural settlements, in which crops are cultivated that existed before the arrival of the sugarcane industry.
Both pivotal studies on health professionals limited the number to three for each respondent, assuming that health practitioners tend to limit their networks to a small number of surrounding peers.
