• It revealed that increased fuel bills meant that a significant number of people were turning to moneylenders and payday loans to cover their payments.

    BBC: Credit unions warn of increasing payday loan dependence

  • "I am particularly alarmed by reports that government troops entered Hama (Monday) after observers departed, firing automatic weapons and killing a significant number of people, " Annan said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • While a significant number of people do remain in camps, it is not just about getting people out of tents and into houses, says the UNDP's Sophie De Caen.

    BBC: Haiti quake: Why isn't aid money going to Haitians?

  • "While nobody suffered any financial loss, Co-op's actions meant that a significant number of people had the resolution of their valid complaints delayed for no good reason, " she added.

    BBC: Cash and bank account details

  • "There's a significant number of people who just don't get it and I think what we need to be doing is making sure that people really understand the importance of diversity in the police service, " he said.

    BBC: Police chief Dal Babu criticises ethnic recruitment

  • In that case, a significant number of people cheated: they filled out that they had come up with 9 words and took the money out of the envelope, although their workbooks clearly showed they had missed the mark by 1 word.

    FORBES: 'Stretch goals' tend to stretch all the way into fraud

  • Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.

    FORBES: The Weekly E-Book Reading List

  • While many people get through life quite handsomely without ever giving much thought to financial identification numbering projects, a significant number of people around the world are immersed in numbers, codes and fields of standardized messages which make money flow electronically without, for the most part, manual intervention.

    FORBES: LEI -- Think Global, Register Local, Says CUSIP

  • In my experience, a theater audience that contains a significant number of black people is prone to be more vocal in its response to a show.

    WSJ: Theatergoers: Can I Get an Amen? | Sightings by Terry Teachout

  • Certainly they have managed to kill off a rather significant number of people who should, by rights, look at any Mass Effect films as something to look forward too.

    FORBES: The Trailer for the Upcoming 'Mass Effect: Paragon Lost,' Disappoints

  • However it is possible that unregistered land may have 'become' a green if a significant number of local people have been involved in lawful sports and pastimes over 20 years.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | North West Wales | Village green threat to marina

  • The impact of the figures - which show a 1% drop in overall crime - is expected to be softened by the announcement of a significant increase in the number of people joining the police force.

    BBC: News Online

  • There was a significant rise in the number of people treated during London's new year celebrations, the London Ambulance Service (LAS) said.

    BBC: London New Year's Eve celebrations: Big rise in patients

  • And statistics collected by Customs and Border Protection reflect a significant reduction in the number of people trying to cross the border illegally.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

  • Representative TANCREDO: No, I don't - I think for the first step if you just do this by attrition, you would see a really significant change in the number of people who are here illegally.

    NPR: Tancredo on the Presidency, and Immigration

  • He said casualty figures from the report should be taken in the context of the significant increase in the number of people cycling - a rise of more than 170% in the capital in the past 11 years.

    BBC: Call for Boris Johnson and TfL to cut cycling casualties

  • He says 360, 000 jobs are linked to the trade rules, a significant number in a country of 13.7 million people.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "These vaccines now have been used in a significant number of countries ... and based on this experience, in which millions of people have now received vaccine, we in fact see that these vaccines are very safe, " he said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • However, downloading tracks did lead to a significant drop in the number of singles being bought, with just 13% of the 500 people surveyed saying they went on to buy singles in shops after getting them on the internet.

    BBC: File swappers 'buy more music'

  • Whoever they answer to, judicial investigators have interviewed a large number of people on both sides of the political divide, but their most significant catch, so far, is Shahram Jazayeri, a well-connected businessman who is soon to stand trial on loosely-specified corruption charges.

    ECONOMIST: Iranian politics and corruption

  • They find that most people vote the same way in both kinds of elections, but a significant number do not.

    ECONOMIST: Politics

  • These latest figures for the period between June and August are significant not only because the number of people unemployed in Wales is down to 125, 000 - a rate of 8.3% - but most significantly because there are 40, 000 more people actually in jobs in Wales in the three months to August 2012 than in the previous quarter.

    BBC: More in employment but the way we work is also changing

  • In other words, the number of people that might have been exposed to the real time tweets was significant, but just a fraction of those watching on TV.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • Today's figures show the number of people in work rose by 80, 000 over the three months to April, alongside a significant fall in the broader measure of unemployment and a smaller rise in the claimant count.

    BBC: UK jobs figures bring good news, but also a worry

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