More broadly, many critics are asking why the debate is taking place at all, since it affects such a small number of women.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

But the number of uninsuredpatients is also rising, currently at eight percent of all patients.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Because all people have children." The number of dead is not clear.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

"We needed to look at all the avenues to reduce our costs and the number one, of course,is our rent,and I asked the landlord to help me out, which they agreed,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

"It is a tax code that makes it all too easy for a small number of individuals and companies to abuse overseas tax havens to avoid paying any taxes at all,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

The government says the number is no more than 10,000 and its troops are taking all precautions to avoid harming the innocent as they make the final push to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26