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

Just last week,the Commerce Department reported an unexpected drop in December in the number of housing starts by builders.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

And it can elect the president in the case of an equal number of votes in the electoral college.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

The researchers found no considerable change in the number of heart attacks in areas near Pueblo without smoking bans.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

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

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

In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The study found a sixty-three percent increase in the number of people treated for rock climbing injuries in American hospitals.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

The Earharts lived in a number of places in America's Middle West when the girls were growing up.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

That was more than ten percent of all Americans -- and more than eight times the number of people in Ireland itself.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

" ...on account of the number of pine trees that grow in the gorge of the mountain in which it is situated.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Since the closing of the Bank of the United States, the government had kept its money in a number of state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

She says one possibility is a decrease in the number of school nurses during the period they studied.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23