At current growth rates, the W.H.O.expects the number to reach twenty million by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Selection sort too really reduces to a total number of comparisons because I'm again comparing the current smallest to the next thing I see, the next thing, so really a lot of these sorting algorithms boil down to comparisons and the numbers that you actually have to make.

选择排序也可归纳为总数的比较,因为要将当前最小者与下一个进行比较,接着再下一个，可见,很多排序算法都可归结为比较,以及需要比较的次数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Citrus growers know that the number of fruit in their current crop has an inverse effect on the number of flowers in the return bloom.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

"And that has been confirmed by people on the ground." Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch Brown quickly retracted his statement, saying he agreed with the prime minister that the number of helicopters was sufficient for the current operation.

VOA: standard.2009.07.22