A recent report said more schools in the United States are teaching Chinese and Arabic, although the numbers are still low.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

If your combination of numbers is chosen, you win a huge amount of money often in the millions.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

A profit by a business is written in black numbers.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

"We can't celebrate a 10 percent unemployment rate, especially the long-term unemployment continues to grow in very troubling numbers,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

But,we also have a situation where large numbers of children are arrested and detained in the counter-terrorism activity,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Mr.Obama's budget numbers and deficit projections assume a return to moderate economic growth next year, with robust expansion in the years that follow.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

And certainly the numbers are of concern." But Mullen emphasized the administration has a new strategy in place in Afghanistan,and is moving forward.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

In Thailand,as many as 1.4 million visitors arrived seeking medical care in 2007, the most recent year numbers are available up from half a million in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Some recent surveys show the president's overall approval rating at or just above 50 percent a far cry from higher numbers in the early days of his administration.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

It's a really good time." Although manufacturing numbers, which reflect demand, expanded again in February, some economists say recovery will not be as rapid as in previous downturns.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

"We know that they rely on all sorts of Palestinian sources many of whom have a vested interest in making the numbers of civilian casualties appear higher than they are."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

This town of 4,000 people, whose numbers swell to 40,000 in the summertime, lies on the tip of a little peninsula that sticks out into the mouth of the Delaware Bay.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

He has had a bad summer. His numbers are down, health care is in peril and he has not been able to work his will on his own party, much less the opposition Republicans."

VOA: standard.2009.09.02