Sentence examples for pulled a number of from inspiring English sources

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We pulled a number of names from the book throughout, and a few references to the Robert Wise film as well.

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He just has some copyrights for some childish hand drawings".As for the $10bn in damages, Terry says: "He clearly just pulled a number out of nowhere".

Parents have lobbied for the urgent move to a new building under the Treganna Campaign group – pulling a number of stunts to press the Welsh Assembly Government into taking hand of the issues which have left many students missing out on learning.

After the appearance of ads for a "Bright Young Things" spring break line, some parents protested the way Pink appeals to ever-younger girls, and urged the company to pull a number of more-than-usually-inappropriate selections from its shelves.

They had led the Saints 20-7 in the fourth quarter, but collapsed dramatically at the end after pulling a number of starters out of the game – prompting even the NFL's own website to ask whether they had tanked intentionally to secure the No1 pick.

In the Pacific Islands, a second wave of globalisation is pulling a number of small island nations into the increasingly globalised neoliberal agricultural sector.

Additionally, teaching is inherently an analytical activity - taking something apart to show the various strands of thought and technique and how it all works -- whereas creating is a synthetic process, pulling a number of different ideas together.

There was no way to pull a number out of the air and separate it from the rest of the budget".

Or are we going to say, we're going to drop it by, you know, pulling a number out of the [hat], 250 billion a year, to where it gets down to a manageable size in four or five years?

("I'd be pulling a number out of the air," one analyst said).

Though there's no question that it's better than the alternative Mike suggested: "pulling a number out of your ass".

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