A number of churches were looted and sacrilegious acts committed.

许多教堂被洗劫了，还发生了亵渎行为。

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A number of efforts were being made to keep the company afloat.

在做多种努力以保持公司继续维持下去。

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A number of people were killed by flying debris.

一些人遭飞溅的碎片致死。

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She visited a number of countries and later wrote reports about how people were dealing with World War Two.

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It's true of Windows, it's true of the Sequel Databases from guys like Oracle, the Google guys were at it for a number of years before that thing really took off.

视窗“系统就是这样，甲骨文公司的关系数据库也是这样，谷歌公司的创立者花了很多年,才让一切走上正轨。

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So I think it is important to keep this in mind and I'm gonna be coming back to this a number of times as we talk about the experiments we were doing at the Soen School of management.

你们要牢记这一点,因为之后,我们会谈到这个问题,做的实验时,我会反复提到这个内容。

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Citizens of a number of countries were victims of the attack, including citizens of Uzbekistan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

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In the subsequent explanation of votes, a number of MEPs were highly critical of the actions of the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz.

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Homes were demolished and a number of other properties were at risk of sliding into the sea after a series of landslips at Knipe Point, which overlooks Cayton Bay.

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