A number of unfamiliar tools lay on the floor about it.

The number of white people in this country cannot lay claim to very much.

A number of urban sanitary districts lay in more than one county.

A number of much smaller islands lay on its western flank.

Most were closed, but a significant number lay open.

The number of eggs a female lays ranges from 110 to 240.

Not far from it lay a number of columns that once ornamented a church.

The number of eggs laid ranges from about 10 to 50.

However, a number of them lay right next to it:

There was some shooting and a number of people lay dead on the church steps.