One of the big political issues now is to get agreement on the number of U.S. forces that can be based in Afghanistan.
There seems to be no movement towards agreement on any number of critical issues facing the country, including how to split up oil proceeds.
In 1990, Presidents Bush and Gorbachev wound up a superpower summit in the United States with agreement on a number of arms control and trade issues.
"There's a tentative agreement on a number of things, and we're waiting to see if it can get wrapped up, " Feinstein said in a brief interview at the Capitol.
Aside from the increase in box-office share allowed for foreign producers, the agreement increased the number of foreign films allowed to play in China and share in box office revenue from 20 to 34.
Without agreement on a revenue number, there is zero chance of a successful tax reform.
This time the agreement even provides a number: spending on direct payments will be limited to 5% of the value of agricultural production.
Two UK development agencies, Tearfund and WaterAid, said the agreement to halve the number of people without access to sanitation was "the first milestone in a long fight to halt the millions of deaths caused by preventable disease".
There was an agreement now to increase the number to 7, 700 African Union peacekeepers by September, but it's not known that they'll be able to do that.
This would still be true, they say, even if, as Russia has proposed, a new agreement were to cut the number of warheads deployed by America and Russia to 1, 500 each.
The US and Afghanistan are negotiating a bilateral security agreement that will determine the number of US troops to remain after most foreign combat troops leave Afghanistan by the end of next year.
But the Afghan leader's trip to Washington has been seen as a crucial step in negotiations over a bilateral security agreement that will determine the number and the function of US troops remaining in Afghanistan beyond 2014.
That idea for a focus on reducing reoffending was a Conservative manifesto promise, it appeared in the coalition agreement and is still the number one priority for the department in its three year business plan published four months ago.
It is always easier to make the sort of concessions needed to secure agreement among such a large number of countries (141 will be represented in Doha) when the economic outlook is buoyant and governments feel freer to look beyond their own short-term interests.
Employers must currently submit a Labor Certification Agreement (LCA) with the number of workers it will cover.
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"I reiterated again that if there is a large dollar number, and an agreement, talk to us, because we have to appropriate that money, " Hastert told reporters on Tuesday.
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The agreement would not involve increasing the number of American personnel in the country (capped by law at 800 troops and 600 civilian contractors, although only 250 are currently there).
That inner good doobie thinks that the divorce attorneys should be drafting an agreement that has a single unambiguous number that is deductible to the payer and taxable to the payee.
He signed a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (or START agreement) that cut the permissible number of strategic warheads to a quarter of what had been allowed in the original 1991 START pact.
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Although he has spoken in support of free trade in the past (and voted for NAFTA), his more recent record includes "no" votes on the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and a number of bilateral free trade agreements.
UK-made TV shows display a special logo at the start and end, but that doesn't apply to US imports like Cards and in any case it doesn't reveal the conditions of any agreement -- did a certain number of devices have to be shown onscreen, or depicted in a certain way?
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So we had a window of time here of a number of weeks to sign this agreement.
The lengthy debate in Congress produced a number of changes, including an agreement by Mr Morales to seek only one more five-year term.
Second, the new agreement not only calls for reductions in the number of nuclear warheads (to between 1, 500 and 1, 675), but for cuts in the number of strategic force launchers.
In Colchester, Essex, up to 243 new jobs were offered to unemployed people by Sainsbury's before a store opened as part of a section 106 agreement designed to help deal with the large number of people out of work.
However, the agreement taken as a whole is, I believe, the best bipartisan agreement we can reach to help the largest number of Americans, and to maximize the chances that the economic recovery will accelerate and create more jobs, and to minimize the chances that it will slip back, which is what has happened in other financial collapses.
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If Eos and the BBC can not come to an agreement, the station will broadcast programmes with a number of changes from Tuesday.
Save probably a couple of very -- save a couple of issues, you had pretty broad agreement between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on a number of things.
Reports said Kamal Haasan had reached an agreement with the Muslim groups and agreed to delete a number of scenes from the film.
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