a number of

Idioms  

1. A collection of persons or things; several. For example, A number of tours are available, or We've visited a number of times. This idiom often is modified by an adjective giving some idea of quantity, as in Only a small number are going. [1300s] Also see any number of.

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Example Sentences

Private-credit managers are facing an ongoing reckoning as individual investors stampede out of private-credit funds, worried about a downturn in software, a number of high-profile defaults and restrictions accessing their money.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the background, a number of AI agents work together to build your apps, each one dedicated to a task such as image creation, web searches or app testing.

From BBC

In addition to Article 4, Gwynedd is one of a number of Welsh councils which charges a 150% council tax premium on second home properties, having upped this from 100% in 2023.

From BBC

"We've had a number of other prison services come to us and want to learn more about what we've been doing and that's not just in the UK, that's internationally."

From BBC

She said Clements had slept in a different room and had responsibility for checking on Madison but, although he was heard through a baby monitor to stir a number of times during the night and had cried, she had not gone into his nursery.

From BBC