Bob Miller wrote:
This list has some language lawyers.  Here's a question about the
English language.

Which of these is grammatically correct?
        "There have been a number of things."
or
        "There has been a number of things."


Google reports that the former is the more common usage:

Results 1 - 10 of about 722 for "There have been a number of things".

Results 1 - 10 of about 188 for "There has been a number of things".


Myself, I'd use "There were a number of things".
(Which is also far more popular on Google)

-ajb

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