• Marty Bentrott, vice president of sales, marketing and in-service support for the 787, says that since 1990, the number of city pairs more than 3, 000 nautical miles apart served by the world's airlines have doubled, the number of frequencies offered by the airlines have doubled, and the number of available seat-kilometers (seating capacity times miles flown) have doubled.

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  • In Perry County, which Perryville is the county seat, the number working in manufacturing is roughly one in five.

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  • Though on a more serious note, if you'd like to hear a grown man portray giving birth then just reserve seat number 25A, which is the window seat next to Brett Sturgess.

    BBC: Clive Stuart-Smith column

  • Airport workers take a photo of the device with the seat number, date and flight number written on it.

    WSJ: Oops! I Forgot My iPad on the Plane

  • Finally, the ID card is flashed at the gate no boarding pass needed and agents there hand the traveler a receipt with the seat number printed on it.

    WSJ: Flying Through the Airport

  • His comments, which he said were linked to his Christian views, have been criticised by a number of his competitors for the south London seat.

    BBC: UKIP's Winston McKenzie criticised for gay adoption views

  • After trading a couple more gentle shots, Sharapova sent a backhand volley wide and McIlroy quickly ran back to his seat before the world number two could get her inevitable revenge.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Frankly, I think 600 MPs is quite enough and also I think it is fair that every seat should have the same number of voters in it.

    BBC: Cameron on Wales unplugged

  • As in Yokohama, as well as this week's losing bid to hold the Tokushima governor's seat, exit polls in Niigata showed a sharp increase in the number of unaffiliated voters.

    ECONOMIST: They want reforms from Koizumi

  • Although the technical membership of the UPFA may now be approaching the bare minimum of legislators needed to maintain a majority in the 225-seat parliament, the government is likely to be able to find a comfortable number of MPs to back its legislative agenda from among the numerous smaller parties in Sri Lanka.

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  • Passengers enter their flight number to obtain a color-coded seat map of the aircraft, displaying the best and worst seats to book.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Glasgow and Edinburgh will each lose a seat under the plans, while the number of constituencies across Highland, Argyll and Bute, and Moray would fall from five to four.

    BBC: Plan to cut Scottish MPs revised by Boundary Commission

  • Total number of seats after the 2012 election was 1223 because one extra seat was added in West Lothian.

    BBC: Scottish council election: Administrations take shape

  • These seats will be given to entities that didn't gain enough votes in a province to win a seat but took a large number of votes across the country.

    CNN: Iraq's voting system designed to reward turnout

  • It may not matter, as long as Google just needs to be about the engineering, while sales, number and operations, take a back seat.

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  • And, with support for the Conservatives and Labour falling, the number of MPs elected by a minority of votes cast in their seat has risen.

    ECONOMIST: Constitutional reform in Britain

  • "Increasing his shares definitely helps him in trying to get a seat but even this significant number is not enough to get the job done on its own, " said Edward Snyder, Principal Analyst at Charter Equity Research.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Exclusive deals could limit the number of potential customers for, say, Airbus's planned 550-seat aircraft, which would mean that that aeroplane (bigger and better than Boeing's jumbo) might not even come to market.

    ECONOMIST: Brussels v Boeing

  • The number of American troops killed in Afghanistan has dropped sharply as international forces increasingly take a back seat while preparing to end their combat mission by the end of 2014.

    NPR: Afghan Teenager Fatally Stabs US Soldier

  • On September 18th, Qiao Shi, the head of China's parliament, was among a number of Deng-era veterans who were not elected to the new Central Committee, hence losing his seat on the all-powerful standing committee of the Politburo.

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  • Esther Rantzen, a celebrity candidate running in a seat whose previous incumbent had been among the most egregious expense-fiddlers, won a humiliatingly small number of votes.

    ECONOMIST: Election results

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