Sentence examples for captured a number from inspiring English sources

Zawahiri escaped, but the troops captured a number of Al Qaeda fighters, including Zawahiri's son Ahmed.

RAINE, a few days since, killed nineteen guerrillas, captured a number of prisoners and fifty horses.

Active on the international golf tour, Thomson also captured a number of other open titles.

The militants captured a number of soldiers and made off with weapons and ammunition, he added.

Next the main Athenian fleet arrived, defeated the Spartan fleet, and captured a number of its ships.

The peasant forces captured a number of towns and cities before they were finally defeated by government armies.

In 2005, United Illuminating captured a number of birds and then turned them over to United States Department of Agriculture officials, who euthanized them.

American officials said they had killed or captured a number of Iraqi insurgents during the current offensive and had foiled a number of attacks.

US soldiers have captured a number of former Iraqi officials, who they hope will give information on the weapons programmes that the Bush administration believes Saddam's regime possessed.

On September 14 last I captured a number of young herring; some, which I put under circulation in salt water, were dead next morning.

The cabinet secretary, Pramono Agung, told reporters last week he had captured a number of Pokémon at the presidential palace in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital.