He points to a big drop in the number of planned job cuts announced by employers over the past six months.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

He was surprised by the large number of busy people in the subway who stopped to listen.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

And Amelia was shocked by the number of wounded soldiers sent home from the fighting in France.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

By their count, the number fell from more than a half-million in nineteen eighty to about three hundred forty-three thousand in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

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

VOA: special.2011.03.22

The number of visitors has increased by ten times in the past fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

A second goal is for the number of malaria cases and deaths to be reduced by fifty percent or more from the number reported in two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The committee noted that the number of days spent by passengers on ships in the area has increased by one hundred fifty percent in the last fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

But he said the number of civilian casualties was "greatly outnumbered" by the number of Taliban fighters killed in the incident.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

Gingrich,by the way, is one of a growing number of prominent Republicans considering a run for president in 2012.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

But his speech was interrupted a number of times by anti-abortion hecklers, with most graduating students drowning out the hecklers in support of Mr.Obama.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

The group says the pirates' missions are financed by criminals in a number of countries besides Somalia, including Lebanon,Kenya and the United Arab Emirates.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20