Today 18 million tourists visit Venice every year, but in 20 years this number risks doubling.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"What you want to see over time is this number move not only below 450 , but below 400,000 before the economy is generating the strong job gains that we would all like to see.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

Earlier this evening, we heard a number of bombs go sliding and slithering across, to fall several blocks away."

VOA: special.2010.01.31

U.S.C.'s Office of International Services says the number of students this year is about seven thousand five hundred.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

A recent report predicted that the number of mobile phone accounts worldwide will reach almost four and a half billion this year.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Experts say this park has the greatest number of arches of any similar geographic area in the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

This was program number twenty-one in our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.12

This could explain why Taiwan has a large number of small earthquakes, but rarely a major one.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

And it expects that number to increase to forty-five billion dollars by the end of this year, even with the current economic downturn.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

This comes as American officials say Mexican organized crime groups are supplying drugs in a growing number of cities across the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

This will bring the total number of foreign students at the Naval Academy to fifty- three.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

This in turn could reduce the number of undernourished people by as much as seventeen percent.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

This was an estimate of the number of words a six-year-old should be able to read.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Our story brought a number of comments, including this one from Odalberto Domingos Casonatto in Brazil.

VOA: special.2010.05.18