(OMITTED) "We have a number of hurdles still ahead."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"Between now and the end of 2011 when all US troops are scheduled to depart Iraq, we have a number of important milestones to achieve, including fair and secure elections, the seating of a new national government and a continued draw down of U.S.forces leading to our change of mission in August 2010,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Eighty to ninety percent of cluster headache patients have pain over a number of days to a whole year.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

But some farmers have used so much glyphosate that a number of kinds of weeds can now resist it.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

And many have. Yet now comes a study showing an increase in the number of injuries in "phys ed" class.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

"The number of young adults that have finished high school is also now at a record all-time high.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Josh Safran says he may have to do what a growing number of recent college graduates are doing.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

"We've seen a number of very large companies that have suffered some tremendously embarrassing losses of data.

VOA: special.2011.05.09

We have a growing number of followers on Twitter and our own popular YouTube channel.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

He said officials have discovered a number of plots in recent months involving "homegrown extremists."

VOA: special.2009.10.17

Asia and Africa have the highest number of snakebites together about four million a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

More recently, a number of shortened versions of psychological therapy have been developed.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

A great number of their machines have come over the far mountain.

VOA: special.2010.07.17