Event correlation is a technique for making sense of a large number of events and pinpointing the few events that are really important in that mass of information.

Bert looked up and was filled with a sense of a number of monstrous bodies swooping down, coming down on the whole affair like a flight of bellying blankets, like a string of vast dish-covers.

That is the sense of a growing number of credit market analysts, who see faster economic growth and rising inflation fears both here and abroad.

The use of the circle of fifths makes sense of a number of observations about the deployment of keys in the classical sonata form:

Heeresgruppe or Army Group in the sense of a number of armies under a single commander.

The pervasive sense of crisis that grips our public schools has provoked a spirit of rampant experimentation, and has fostered a kind of laboratory sector in which thousands of schools have reshaped themselves according to the doctrine of one of a number of gurus.

In finance, noise obtained a formal definition in a 1986 paper by Fischer Black: "Noise in the sense of a large number of small events is often a cause factor much more powerful than a small number of large events can be."