A cold spring will provide a natural check on the number of insects.
寒冷的春季会自然控制昆虫的数量。
Citicorp will guarantee its credit card customers a rebate on a number of products.
花旗银行将保证其信用卡用户在一些商品上得到退款。
Refugees settling in a new country suffer from a number of problems.
在一个新国家定居的难民们面临许多问题。
The number of new houses being built is a good index of a country's prosperity.
新建房屋的数目是国家繁荣的一个有用指标。
Associating a number as one of the qualities of a specific object is a great hindrance to the development of a true number sense.
把数字和一个具体物品的一种属性联系起来，是形成真正的数感的一大障碍。
A plant situated near a number of larger noncompliant competitors is less likely to attract the attention of local regulators than is an isolated plant, and less attention means lower costs.
与一个独立的工厂相比，坐落在许多不合规的大型竞争者附近的工厂不太可能引起当地监管机构的注意，而较少的关注意味着更低的成本。
With Cuicuilco eliminated as a potential rival, any one of a number of relatively modest towns might have emerged as a leading economic and political power in Central Mexico.
随着Cuicuilco作为一个潜在的竞争对手被淘汰，一些相对不太大的城镇中，任何一个都有可能成为墨西哥中部主要的经济和政治力量。
Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places.
灰松鼠在很多地方一次埋一个坚果。
On the way he passed by a marsh, in which a number of frogs were sitting croaking.
在路上，他经过一片沼泽地，那里有许多青蛙坐在那里呱呱叫。
A number of the United States' allies had urged him not to make a hasty decision.
美国的一些盟友都力劝其不要作出草率的决定。
A survey of the American diet has revealed that a growing number of people are overweight.
一项有关美国人日常饮食的调查表明越来越多的人超重。
Such a view rests on a number of incorrect assumptions.
这一观点基于一些错误的假定。
A number of factors decide whether a movie will be successful or not.
一部电影成功与否是由许多因素决定的。
Five women in a group of 18 people is a pathetically small number.
18个人中5位女性是个小得可怜的数目。
I understand that there are a number of projects going on. Could you tell us a little bit about those?
我知道有一些项目正在进行之中。你能给我们简单谈谈那些项目吗？
This return to realism has produced a revival of interest in a number of artists.
这次向现实主义的回归引起了对许多艺术家兴趣的复苏。
There are a number of distinguishing characteristics by which you can identify a Hollywood epic.
通过其诸多与众不同的特点,你可以识别出好莱坞的史诗影片。
A number of small-scale studies have already indicated that there is a relationship between diet and cancer.
一些小规模的研究已经表明，饮食和癌症之间有一种联系。
The number of patients on a doctor's list was seen as a good proxy for assessing how hard they work.
医生诊单上的病人数被看作是衡量他们工作努力程度的可靠指标。
A correspondent for Reuters news agency says he saw a number of demonstrators being beaten.
路透通讯社的一名记者说他看到一些示威者遭到殴打。
Despite a number of setbacks, they persevered in their attempts to fly around the world in a balloon.
虽屡遭挫折，他们仍不断尝试乘气球环游世界。
After a number of false starts, she finally found a job she liked.
她起初失败了几次，之后终于找到了喜欢的工作。
Such a diet is widely believed to offer protection against a number of cancers.
这样的日常饮食被广泛认为可以预防多种癌症。
A single mosquito can infect a large number of people.
一只蚊子就能传染很多人。
For a number of years I worked as a typesetter.
我做了几年排字工人。
A fair number of people advocate a large-scale shift to organic farming from conventional agriculture.
相当多的人主张从传统农业向有机农业大规模转移。
Nowadays, a lot of medical doctors have learned acupuncture techniques; so have a number of dentists.
如今，许多医生已经学会了针灸技术，一些牙医也是如此。
Every year the school has a pool of money to fund a number of research projects of undergraduate students.
该校每年都有一笔资金，用以资助一些本科生的研究项目。
The growing speed of a plant is influenced by a number of factors.
植物的生长速度受到了许多因素的影响。
A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio Riboli of Imperial College.
帝国理工学院的埃利奥·里博利说，长高一点会有很多益处。
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