The phrase "a number of traps" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple traps, often in contexts related to strategy, danger, or obstacles.
Example: "The adventurers encountered a number of traps as they navigated through the ancient ruins."
Alternatives: "several traps" or "multiple traps".
Western bean cutworm captures declined again this week; a number of traps caught none.
During high magma discharge in Phase III (5 17 May), tephra was sampled in a systematic manner with a number of traps around the volcano.
After a quick breakfast, we set out a number of traps where we had seen a few birds come to ground yesterday.
Paul Collier, former director of development research at the World Bank, who coined the "bottom billion" phrase, warns that the poorest countries in the world are caught in a number of "traps" because poverty, corruption and conflict feed on one another and conspire to keep poor countries poor.
No pity, replies the wheelchair-bound former paraglider wryly, is just what I want.In this section Looking for the exit Yes, we can The power of jaw-jaw Scent of dreams Friends united Placing words Dirty Hoover ReprintsLess deftly handled, the treatment of such a subject could have fallen into a number of traps.
In one of his poems, just four lines long, Queneau sets a number of traps, punning on, to take one example, different meanings of "fils" (son, or wires, take your pick), and ends with the challenge: "allez me traduire ça en anglais!" Which Rachel Galvin, naturally enough, renders as "go translate that into French for me!" It's the spirit you have to get into above all here, and Galvin knows it.
Geological storage of carbon dioxide relies on the effectiveness of immobilizing CO2 in the pore space of deep geological formations through a number of trapping mechanisms that include capillary, dissolution, and mineral trapping.
During breeding of a number of TRAP over expressing mouse sub-lines derived from one of the original high-expressing founders [10], we noted that one of these sub-lines (TRAP+) gained excessive body weight after weaning and conspicuously developed spontaneous obesity (Figure 1A).
Recent experiments in northern Australia used a number of trap designs (Figure 40) for penaeid shrimp with little success.
A number of trap and plastics manufacturers are experimenting with multipurpose traps and they have been tried out in many fisheries.
The sections of tibia with osteolysis indicated that metastatic tumour cells filled the bone marrow cavity and that a number of TRAP-positive osteoclasts aligned on the surface of the cortical bone and resorbed bone to form resorption pits.
