"We would like to show the government that in reality we have a huge number of people who support us."

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.

农业村庄在石器时代后期,以及新石器时代随处可见,但二者是有区别的,最重要的区别在于,城市能容纳,相当数量,无需自给自足的人口

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But his speech was interrupted a number of times by anti-abortion hecklers, with most graduating students drowning out the hecklers in support of Mr.Obama.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

She has pledged U.S.support in a number of areas, including helping Pakistan repair and upgrade key electricity generating stations as the country faces severe power shortages.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Shortly afterward, officials made public that the support troops would number up to 13,000, bringing the overall total to 68,000 by the end of the year a doubling of the deployment from when he took office.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13