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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
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A number of
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"Findings from the past 10 years suggest no giant leaps in treatment of CD but, instead, a number of small steps...."
Here, 'a number of" means 'many'?
"Findings from the past 10 years suggest no giant leaps in treatment of CD but, instead, a number of small steps...."
Here, 'a number of" means 'many'?
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No, not many.
The noun "number" quantifies"small steps" imprecisely, so we can't assume many (or few). "Several" is probably about as close as we can get to its meaning.
BillJ
The noun "number" quantifies"small steps" imprecisely, so we can't assume many (or few). "Several" is probably about as close as we can get to its meaning.
BillJ
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I would agree that "a number of" does probably most closely reflect "several," but also implies "various" or "varied." Of course that is not known definitively, but in my opinion in carries that connotation. Essentially, "several different steps..."
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