The phrase "also excludes a number" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a list or category that does not include certain items or values, specifically numerical ones.
Example: "The new policy applies to all employees but also excludes a number of specific roles."
Alternatives: "also omits several numbers" or "also leaves out a few numbers".
We also excluded a small number of observations that were clear errors.
The data sets also excluded a small number of students who had been caught cheating.
At the outset we also excluded a small number of candidates with incomplete or missing UKCAT scores (n=227).
Increasing the threshold will increase the proportion of positively identified individuals but also exclude a higher number of cases from being identified.
In some cases we also excluded a small number of taxa within the target family clade that were assigned to a different family (see Additional file 1 for details on the names of taxa excluded from each family subtree).
In addition, we also excluded a small number of voxels that showed negative BOLD response, as well as those likely associated with large venous vessels, which exhibited >5% increase in the BOLD signal.
(3) In top 100 of ranked proteins, ION can not only detect more essential proteins ignored by the eight other existing centrality methods but also exclude a large number of nonessential proteins which can't be ignored by these methods.
Since ION can not only detect more essential proteins ignored by the eight other existing centrality methods but also exclude a large number of nonessential proteins which can't be ignored by these methods, it is not surprise that ION has high performance in the prediction of essential proteins.
The recategorization criteria used in the current study also excluded a relatively large number of participants from analyses, which may have biased results if these participants were meaningfully different from participants in the High-Mechanistic and/or Low-Mechanistic groups.
In addition, 35 patients could not be reached and were also excluded, leaving a number of 270 patients from whom reliable information about PCO treatment could be obtained.
