Many business owners agreed to follow codes or rules such as limiting the number of hours people could work.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

In fact,Science magazine recognized the discovery of "genes for mental illness" as the number two "Breakthrough of the Year."

VOA: special.2009.06.24

They also hold big shares of Citigroup and a number of other banks, as well as sixty percent of General Motors.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

A large number of the telegraph lines were going in all directions, as crooked as the vines that grapes grow on.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

As a result,there is a reduction in the number of nodes,or joints, that produce groups of flowers along stems.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

I was excited myself. I had visited Guyana as a reporter a number of times in the past.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

Estimates of the number of troops dismissed under the policy are as high as thirteen thousand five hundred.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

This comes as American officials say Mexican organized crime groups are supplying drugs in a growing number of cities across the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Yet a growing number of users around the world see it as the latest method for busy people to get and share information quickly.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

This in turn could reduce the number of undernourished people by as much as seventeen percent.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

It helped him gain a huge number of white fans as well as black ones.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

And how that works is, as your number increases, the diameter gets smaller and smaller."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Representative Loretta Sanchez from California noted that Mexico has now deployed forty-five thousand troops -- around the same number as the United States has in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

Throughout American history, the number of stars increased as more states were added.

VOA: special.2010.04.02