There____(be) a number of people over there just now.

问题描述:

There____(be) a number of people over there just now.

were 因为a number of 的意思是“许多的,大量的”,它如果做主语谓语动词也是要用复数形式,而这个地方又是用的there be 句型,它遵循的是就近原则,just now表过去,所以填were