Sentence examples for thing a number from inspiring English sources

Among the realists, however, there are several different views of what kind of thing a number is.

For one thing, a number of Muslim Brotherhood TV stations have been taken off the air, and millions are ecstatic at President Mohamed Morsi's removal.

He went on to explain that the Philae lander has done a similar thing a number of times before, so no one was alarmed or surprised.

"I went through that thing a number of times and only got a fast return on my fear once, a too classic hot landing with the heat coming from the trees about 300 yards away, sweeping machine-gun fire that sent men head down into swampy water, running on their hands and knees towards the grass where it wasn't blown flat by the rotor blades, not much to be running for but better than nothing".

Naturally, the first thing a number of people, like Loic Le Meur, did was search for "sex" or "porn".

(If you're into that kind of thing, a number of the restaurants listed in the app had Michelin Stars).

Among other things, a number of laws may have been broken.

He has been called other things, a number of them probably unprintable.

What kind of thing is a number?

I've heard this sort of thing from a number of people over the years.

And that's a good thing, for a number of reasons.