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

Ros-Lehtinen,a Cuban American,said Cuba has shamefully been promoting itself as a destination for sexual tourism that exploits large numbers of children.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

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

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 July,President Barak Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev agreed to reduce their respective numbers of nuclear warheads to between 1,500 and 1,675 under a new treaty.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

But earlier Wednesday, Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell said senior officials are considering whether a full counterinsurgency campaign, with large numbers of troops and civilians, is the right approach.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

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

"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

On the need for a second economic stimulus measure, Gibbs would only point to recent statistics, including unemployment numbers, saying they provide "a sobering reminder" of the many economic challenges Americans face.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

it's not about numbers. It's about a plan and the execution of a plan to have tens-of-thousands of people removed from an areas by killing them, by putting them in camps,by rapes.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

But because of the numbers of employee deaths and the media attention they have attracted, critics say France Telecom's problems have emerged as a warning story about the downsides of valuing productivity and growth over employee well being.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

"Otherwise you have the really problematic bottom line, which is that the Central Intelligence Agency is running a program that is killing significant numbers of people and there is absolutely no accountability in terms of the relevant international laws,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27