It's a way of showing in one number that, for example,a diabetic or an obese person died sooner but also had years of poor health.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Jim Jennings from the Allstate Insurance Company says the number one cause of distracted-driving accidents is the mobile phone.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

She has recorded more than thirty albums since she had her first number one song on the country music charts.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

Cardiovascular diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the number one cause of death around the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

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

VOA: special.2009.08.06

The book entered The New York Times Best Sellers list at the number one position on September twenty-fifth.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

The report says the common housecat is the number-one killer of fledgling gray catbirds near America's capital.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

That's why creating jobs has to be our number one priority in two thousand and ten."

VOA: special.2010.01.30

It was not until nineteen eighty-seven that Mister Reagan declared AIDS "public health enemy number one."

VOA: special.2011.06.15

Michael had been the number one name for thirty-eight years, from nineteen sixty-one to nineteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Their second album with the company went to number one on Billboard Magazine popular music charts.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

This is their sixth studio album, but only the second to open at number one on the Billboard Albums Chart in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

"Raditude" is number one on Billboard Magazine's chart of top one hundred alternative albums and number seven on its chart of top two hundred albums.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Brazil has won the World Cup five times and is ranked number one by FIFA.

VOA: special.2010.06.09