Before this project, the language of the Yukagir was spoken fluently by only seventeen people.

UNESCO: CULTURE

By the time McKeon gavelled his meeting to order, just after ten in the morning, only seventeen members of the House Armed Services Committee (five Democrats and twelve Republicans) had shown up to hear the three former heads of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who had been called to testify.

NEWYORKER: The Force

Smartphones are the biggest culprit, though not the only one: seventeen percent of all gamers have downloaded a gaming app for their phone.

FORBES: US Gaming Population Has Almost Tripled Since 2008

Seventeen on them reached number one, a feat topped only by Stevie Wonder and Louis Jordan, and equalled only by Aretha Franklin.

BBC: James Brown