It would take another three years before the addition of Chivas USA in Los Angeles and Real Salt Lake took the league back to an even dozen but still the pessimists out-numbered the optimists.
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By then, the crowd numbered in the hundreds and rippled with sporadic waves of teenage squeals.
The brothers now numbered in the thousands, working all across Europe.
But in real life, the dots can only be numbered after the fact.
Because they realize the Obama administration's days are numbered (the number is 1, 333 as of today).
Not a good idea: the days of Catholic-Jewish rumbling on the streets of New York City were already numbered by the time the team came together in 1949.
Nevertheless, after two years, female engineers at Etsy are nearly 20% of the team, four and a half times what they numbered at the start of the initiative.
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You can see how a person might get confused, though, what with the hand-numbered bottle and the "limited edition" boast on the label.
That was quite a boost for a rookie tax blogger whose readership numbered in the scores.
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Its followers numbered in the hundreds with an equal number of those being followed.
Days and months are named after (pagan) gods, while our years are numbered after the birth of Christ.
Its days have been numbered since the collapse of the Berlin Wall coincided with the bursting of Japan's bubble economy.
Mr Graham has preached to congregations numbered in the tens and hundreds of thousands, in every continent and in the most unpromising places.
More ominously, they are more likely to be numbered among the long-term unemployed -- people who have been out of work six months or more.
Closures in most authorities numbered in the tens, rather than hundreds.
Still, their days might be numbered: The iPod has killed before.
The fans, who belted out support for Bill O'Brien, Penn State's new head football coach, numbered in the hundreds, CNN affiliate broadcaster WGAL said.
In other words it's a heckuva a lot easier to grow a business when its revenues are numbered in the millions or even billions rather than in the tens of billions.
Bersani's hours as party leader were numbered after the latest humiliation from his own ranks, when party defectors Friday in the secret balloting for president sabotaged his high-profile choice of candidate, former Premier Romano Prodi, an economist who is widely respected at home and abroad.
No one is tipping how low the Australian dollar could fall but there seems little doubt that its days of trading higher than its U.S. cousin are numbered as the combination of a tough budget, increased debt and a national election scheduled for September 14, sap confidence.
Jack Anderson also mentions a tax worry for Americans: the prospective repeal of Section 911 (coincidentally numbered) of the revenue code.
The single rider lines to fill out odd-numbered parties for the Matterhorn or Splash Mountain are not actually intended for single riders, yet the experience was strangely enjoyable.
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The Swiss are, in the public view, the gnomes of Zurich, providing numbered accounts to shelter the wealth of the Marcoses and the Mobutus, and recently have been attacked for being Germany's bankers in the second world war.
The debris survey team also deployed 400 numbered wooden blocks along the route, often near floating debris.
By Thursday, the protesters numbered three hundred, including three white women, from the Greensboro campus of the University of North Carolina.
Driving Paulson's huge investment in hardware, software and communications links is his belief that the days of the conventional trading floor are numbered--and that the stock, options and commodities exchanges have been in denial or too sluggish to do much about it.
If you experience this problem, I suggest you refrain from ever using the visual pager, and instead simply click on the numbered buttons to switch from one virtual desktop to another.
Inside the mediocre lobby we staked out a position near the numbered boxes, innocuously pretending to screw up our change-of-address forms so that we had to start over again a dozen times.
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