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

VOA: special.2010.05.26

So she drove him home. If my brother had driven home from the bar that night, his number would have been up.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

The number was up forty percent from two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

I guess her lucky number came up.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

To ease traffic congestion,Clark says, Houston transportation officials created special safety programs to reduce the number of accidents, which tie up traffic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Now a growing number of companies and hospitals will not hire smokers,or worse, will fire them if they are caught lighting up.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Prizes are given for planting the most trees and picking up the largest number of plastic bags.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The military has set up and equipped a number of volunteer self-defense networks in the south.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

On a less positive note, the number of newly laid off Americans seeking unemployment benefits totaled 551,000 last week, up from 534,000 the previous week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

A number of people have taken over a children's climbing set. They've set up sheets and tents and what look like make shift sleeping bags.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

He said the price of care will rise, the government tax fund that supports Medicare will dry up, and the number of people without health insurance will skyrocket.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Again,Colonel Lapan. "The sense that there are somehow 13 that weren't authorized or that are somehow new, well then that would make the 68 number go up by 13,000,wouldn't it?

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a lack of social interactions ranks right up with smoking,obesity, and alcoholism as a risk factor for death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The U.S.Labor Department reports nearly 670,000 Americans submitted claims for government jobless benefits last week, up more than 10,000 from the previous week and the highest number recorded in more than a quarter century.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02