And for the eighth year the school with the largest number was the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

In fact,Science magazine recognized the discovery of "genes for mental illness" as the number two "Breakthrough of the Year."

VOA: special.2009.06.24

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

Eighty to ninety percent of cluster headache patients have pain over a number of days to a whole year.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

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

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

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

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

Last year, two American government agencies and an international organization announced a number of policies for environmentally-friendly racing.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

It says the number of international students last year was almost fifteen percent higher than the last record setting year, two thousand two.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

But any time of year, visitors to the nation's capital can see a number of memorials that honor members of the armed forces.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

The number of cancer cases and deaths from cancer are expected to increase one percent each year.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The International Shark Attack File says the number of shark attacks rose twenty five percent last year.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

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

But the number is down sharply from two thousand seven, the year before the financial crash.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

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

VOA: special.2010.05.02

The number of cancer cases and deaths from cancer are expected to increase 1% each year.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The World Food Program said last week that the number of hungry people will pass one billion this year for the first time in history.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The researchers advise growers to investigate the effects of thinning or pruning to reduce the number of fruit in early summer of the on-crop year.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

The number of them who die each year from the disease could reach 17 million.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

They can also cause them. In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Asia and Africa have the highest number of snakebites together about four million a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.25