The goal with the new rickshaw is to increase the number of trips per day that the pullers can make.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

At the end of five weeks, the school was too small for the number of children who wanted to attend.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

It will do that,he says, by reducing the cost of computers and increasing the number of people who search the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

The Ecuadorian government has tried to enforce severe limits on the number of Ecuadorians who move to the islands.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

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 census form asks ten questions, including the number of people living in each house, their ethnic group and race.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

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

Without new treatments, the WHO said, the number of new cancer patients could increase to 27 million a year by 2030.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

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

Yet the International Shark Attack File reports that the number of shark attacks has, in fact,decreased in recent years.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

The number of Washingtonians grew about three percent during that period while the United States population increased more than seven percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

The number of Japanese students in the United States decreased for the fourth year, to just over twenty-nine thousand.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

But Michael O'Donnell says the number of serious bird strike incidents has remained at or below two hundred each year.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

For example,a two thousand four study showed that the number of school nurses nationally failed to meet federal guidelines.

VOA: special.2009.08.06