In some languages, numbers take singular nouns even though plural forms exist. In some languages, the situation is even more complicated - in Finnish, nouns that lack singular forms exist, and those nouns take the number inflected for the plural. In addition, some syntactic positions can permit or even require the nominative-accusative plural to be marked on both the number and the noun.
Now, in a language where some adpositions are wackernagel adpositions, maybe they could cause some havoc with regards to such congruence:
NUM NOUN.sg
PREP NUM NOUN.sg
NUM PREP NOUN.pl*
*optional plural?
How about eventual other markers - classifiers or count morphemes - bleeding over to the preposition?
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