Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• a certain number of people/years → un cierto número de personas/años a certain person told me that → cierta persona me dijo que ... she has a certain ...
• EDR日英対訳辞書. to eat a certain number. いくつと数を 限って食う
• 物がいくつかに区切れる
• 斎藤和英大辞典. to be sat by a certain number of people. 〜の人数で ...
• SOLUTION: A certain number of matches are needed to fill 24 boxes, with each box containing the same number of matches. When 4 less matches are put into ...
• a certain number of books. in the library of CRAE, the Centre de Recherche en Arts & Esthétique at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, June ...

• A number of students (=more than a few, but not many) have part
• Mar 1, 2012 ... The subject of these sentences is 'students', and 'some', 'several', 'a number of' are modifiers of 'students'. The verb agrees with the subject.
• 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 ...
• time jobs. We' ve met on a ... Quite a number of paintings (=many paintings) have been sold.
• Determiner. Several. A number of people have commented on it. There are a number of problems with the log
• in system. Several of. I spoke with a number of ...