"number" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The greater number have escaped, and are being pursued.
- He and a number of other prisoners escaped to shore.
- He tried to remember how many he had killed before, but the number escaped him since it was no longer part of his past.
- A large number of the men escaped to join the partisans.
- A number of Jews escaped and tried to join them.
- The score must have been half a hundred-but by far the greater number escaped.
- A number of prisoners also escaped but most had been recaptured.
- In consequence our action was betrayed so that a large number of Jews could escape.
- A small number of men escaped and a few survived by feigning death.
- However, a small number of librarians escaped into the Sewers.
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