Before last week's announcement, the total number of so-called exoplanets outside our solar system was just over five hundred.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

At the end of five weeks, the school was too small for the number of children who wanted to attend.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But the latest Census Bureau report says the number of home-based businesses rose to more than eleven million in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

U.S.C.'s Office of International Services says the number of students this year is about seven thousand five hundred.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

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

VOA: special.2010.02.06

The absolute number of child deaths declined to an estimated eight-point-eight million from twelve-point-five million in nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

And it expects that number to increase to forty-five billion dollars by the end of this year, even with the current economic downturn.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

The International Shark Attack File says the number of shark attacks rose twenty five percent last year.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

South Africa has more than five million people infected with H.I.V., the largest number of any country.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The number of smokers is expected to grow to one billion seven hundred million by twenty twenty-five.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Brazil has won the World Cup five times and is ranked number one by FIFA.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

The number of infected men, women and children is estimated at more than five and a half million -- or eleven percent of the population.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

We ,over the last twenty-five years, seen an alarming decline in the number of beekeepers.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

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

Astronauts on the next flight, Gemini Five, suffered a number of technical problems.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The number of South Korean students increased nine percent to seventy-five thousand.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

For men,the number is no less than two thousand five hundred.

VOA: special.2010.06.08