• This relates to publically traded homebuilding companies: The great number of bankruptcies among the privately held homebuilders.

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  • And if that doesn't work, point out the great number of American families that depend on it for income.

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  • It might also be applied, in different ways, to the great number of people who have various cognitive problems due to neurodevelopmental disorders or neurodegenerative diseases.

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  • During the celebration, participants will observe a minute of silence in tribute to the great number of journalists who have paid with their lives for our right to know.

    UNESCO: World Press Freedom Day 2010

  • From the great number of complaints which we have heard respecting the operation of the Income Tax as to the mode in which the profits of trades and professions under Schedule D are determined, we have reason to believe that a provision in the act, very important to the mercantile community, has been quite overlooked, or is little known.

    ECONOMIST: The income tax

  • While the number of new establishments rose through the mid-2000 before starting to decline in the wake of the Great Recession, the number of jobs at those establishments has been falling consistently since 2000.

    FORBES: New Business Employment Falling Fast

  • Supporters of the discount cards say that the group purchasing power of seniors will force drug companies to lower their prices -- the thinking is that the drug companies will want to get the business of a great number of seniors, and therefore will lower their prices to get their business.

    CNN: Kelly Wallace is a CNN White House correspondent.

  • When Westerners puzzle over why it's so hard for Israel to find moderate interlocutors among the Palestinians -- historically among the best educated, most entrepreneurial, and liberal of Arab societies -- a sad but simple part of the answer is that a great number of the Palestinian elites who might have filled that role were either killed or persuaded to leave long ago.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • What I applaud is the rise of passion in this great style of cooking and the increased number of places doing it right all across the country.

    FORBES: 8 Best American Food Trends

  • Over the years, the emigration from the islands has been so great that the number of Cape Verdeans and their descendants living overseas now exceeds the population of those at home, so Antunes is forced to use the very simplest of methods to follow his footballers' form.

    CNN: Flying high: Mourinho mentors Cape Verde's 'Special One'

  • The aim is to ensure that scientific knowledge about the very rapid disappearance of a great number of vegetable and animal species and the erosion of ecosystems leads to concrete measures.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • In the housing crisis, "as residential foreclosures really skyrocketed, the IRS saw a great increase in the number of organizations involved in foreclosure assistance" applying to be tax-exempt, Holly Paz, the IRS's director of rulings and agreements for its exempt-organizations unit, told a group of accountants last year.

    WSJ: IRS Has History of Extra Scrutiny of Groups

  • Google has long realized that the hot market of wireless is a great place to grow the number of eyeballs and it has become very active in this space.

    FORBES: Guess Who Keeps Wireless Operators Up At Night?

  • In the middle of the 16th century, the number of universities increased "because of the great humanistic learning that was going on and because of the exploration of the New World, " Mr. Long said.

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  • The issue is that a great number of small businesses are taxed as pass- through entities, so the rate of the corporate tax would not necessarily apply to those taxed at the individual rate.

    FORBES: Do the Presidential Candidates' Platforms Address the Real Needs of Small Businesses?

  • Given the perilous state of a great number of corporate pension funds and the firms that stand behind them, many pensioners may be better off in the hands of well-capitalised and -regulated insurers, especially as official compensation is more generous if an insurer fails to honour its obligations than if a company goes bust leaving an underfunded pension scheme.

    ECONOMIST: Pension buy-outs

  • Scoreless after the first period, the Senators had a number of great chances in the second but couldn't beat Miller until Karlsson moved in shorthanded and blasted a shot just over the Buffalo goalie's left pad at 15:20.

    WSJ: Anderson leads Senators to 2-0 win against Sabres

  • Though the world won't quite meet the goal, we've still made great progress: The number of children under 5 years old who die world-wide fell to 6.9 million in 2011, down from 12 million in 1990 (despite a growing global population).

    WSJ: Bill Gates on the Importance of Measurement

  • Over the past several years as taxpayers have endured the Great Recession the IRS has escalated the number of federal tax liens filed against delinquent taxpayers.

    FORBES: IRS Easing Up on Liens

  • It has also emerged on the radar screens of a great number of both retail and institutional investors thanks to the disclosure that Warren Buffett has begun adding it to the Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.B) portfolio, perhaps at the suggestion of a new member of his team, Ted Weshler, a longtime fan of the stock.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The story takes place during the height of the Islamic Golden Age, and Kerbouchard walks and discusses a number of subjects with some of the great minds of that time.

    FORBES: The Weekly E-Book Reading List

  • In fact, the history of such killings is so long, their number so great, and the definition of collaboration so elastic (often just moderation toward the Jews) that it may not be too much of a stretch to say that the current population of Gaza and the West Bank has been as much radicalized by Arab violence as by Israeli.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The students, who were selected to be a 2012 Lemelson-MIT program InvenTeam, built the device with the goal of reducing the number of drowning deaths due to rip currents in the Great Lakes.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Rospa, which introduced Tufty as a character, said TV campaigns had helped "to create a high level of road safety awareness over a long period, and are one of the reasons why Great Britain has been able to significantly reduce the number of people being killed on our roads".

    BBC: Children's road safety TV adverts axed in England

  • In fact, ideologically he is something of an old-time liberal himself (he devoted a great deal of energy to boosting the number of poor students at Harvard).

    ECONOMIST: A defenestration at Harvard: The Summers also sets | The

  • The number of great achievements to bring about fame have not increased -- what have increased are the "look at me" spectacles that have no other goal than to draw attention, he said.

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  • "Estimates show that during the busiest hour in the morning peak period, the number of passengers on the Great Eastern main line heading to Liverpool Street is set to increase by 49% by 2031, from 16, 500 to 24, 600, " a statement said.

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  • The legacy of the Great Smog was the Clean Air Act of 1956 which introduced a number of measures to reduce air pollution.

    BBC: News, London

  • The co-ed group Toumast is one of a number of great rock bands rooted, astonishingly enough, in the nomadic Tuareg tribes of Northwestern Africa.

    NPR: The Musical Worlds of WOMEX

  • If anything that I or the United States was able to do was helpful -- especially because of our historic ties to Great Britain and because of the enormous number of Irish Americans we have and the feeling we have for the Irish and their troubles -- then, I'm very grateful.

    CNN

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