query: Is "There were a large number..." or "There was a large number..." correct?
positive_passages.docid: 29553
positive_passages.text: A number of questions "has been" or "have been" asked?
negative_passages.docid: 46644
negative_passages.text: Was or is? Confusion
negative_passages.docid: 93397
negative_passages.text: There is (there's) vs.There are
negative_passages.docid: 12840
negative_passages.text: "Ten times fewer the number" versus "one-tenth the number"
negative_passages.docid: 79556
negative_passages.text: Correct plural usage for "hundreds" and "thousands"
negative_passages.docid: 145712
negative_passages.text: The amount of VS The number of, etc
negative_passages.docid: 72948
negative_passages.text: Is the sentence "There is a large number of labourers who want to migrate to Japan for work." correct?
negative_passages.docid: 61450
negative_passages.text: When writing large numbers, should a comma be inserted?
negative_passages.docid: 7627
negative_passages.text: X, along with Y, "were" or "was"?
negative_passages.docid: 6842
negative_passages.text: Is "there has got to be" grammatical?
negative_passages.docid: 46651
negative_passages.text: There has vs. There have
negative_passages.docid: 102159
negative_passages.text: “Has been” vs. “was”
negative_passages.docid: 8496
negative_passages.text: “I saw a dog” vs. “I have seen a dog”
negative_passages.docid: 27973
negative_passages.text: How do you correctly say large numbers
negative_passages.docid: 120628
negative_passages.text: "Was" or "were" for "half a dozen"
negative_passages.docid: 43632
negative_passages.text: a large number of/ large numbers of, What's the difference?
negative_passages.docid: 35117
negative_passages.text: "The number of residents has grown" vs. "the number of residents have grown"