One of the key metrics analysts were looking for was the number of iPhone sales.
But more striking to me was the number of compounds listed for chronic diseases.
Also falling in October according to Intuit was the number of hours worked.
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To me by far the most interesting number in the recent US employment numbers was the number of long-term unemployed.
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The third measure was the number of times that an individual's papers had actually been cited in the previous year.
This year one striking consistency was the number of advertisers that invested in building their brands with long and emotional spots.
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The biggest surprise that Verizon sprung this earnings call was the number of postpaid subscribers it managed to add during the quarter.
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The census also showed London was the only region where the number of vehicles was lower than the number of households in 2011.
At the peak of the YouTube coverage, that was the number of concurrent viewers (views) reported from around the world watching the successful feat.
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He said part of the problem with the road between Huntingdon and Cambridge was the number of junctions which mixed local traffic with heavy goods vehicles.
He said the cause of Thursday's closure was "just the number of people coming into the hospital which was more than the number of beds available".
But what did surprise me was the number of industries making the list that you might not expect to see, such as higher education, healthcare, and fast food chains.
The 2001-02 season was a particularly memorable one as among the records he beat was the number of winners in a season, the 269 set by Sir Gordon Richards in 1947.
One of the surprising factoids to come out of Mobile World Congress this year was the number of carrier networks supporting Firefox OS, the forthcoming web-based mobile platform from Mozilla.
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Part of the reason for the increase was because the number of births was 1, 100 higher than the number of deaths - the first year there have been more births than deaths since 1996-97.
In fact, standing at a polling station on Wednesday, in the freezing December morning, one thing that stood out was the number of elderly and very infirm who turned out to vote - many of them had to be physically helped to the ballot box.
What correlated most with the number of new drugs approved was the total number of companies in the industry.
London was the only region where the number of vehicles was lower than the number of households in 2011.
But after the count resumed with the arrival in Nairobi of manual tallies, the number of rejected ballots was greatly reduced, and the election commission said the computer was mistakenly multiplying the number of rejected ballots by a factor of eight.
The reason behind the changes, it said, was that the number of letters sent was in decline while the volume of heavier parcels was on the rise.
Bertrand Francois, of the Haute-Savoie police, told BFM the number of victims was a result of the high number of people in the area at this time of year.
Flanagan, marveled to the Chicago Sun-Times that he was impressed by the number of appearances Blagojevich was making during the campaign.
The largest decline was in the number of visitors from the rest of Europe, which fell by 7%.
What the team found was that the number of muon neutrinos did indeed decline the farther away from the detector they came from.
The researchers said that because of the way the survey was constructed, the number of Scots who supported a lot more immigration could in theory fall between 11% and 29%.
Kaye notes that while there is a perception of slow uptake for 3D TVs, the number of 3D sets sold in the first 12 months of availability was actually higher than the number of HD sets sold in the first 12 months.
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But the leader of Lincolnshire County Council, Martin Hill, said many local people will be disappointed, and it was vital the number of wind farms was kept under control.
This policy, a big part of which was reducing the number of guns in circulation, helped to lower gun-murders of under-24-year-olds from 51 in 1990 to only 16 last year.
Compared with the species diversity in these patches when the final count was made, the number of species in the culled patches of woodland was down by about a quarter.
Surrey Police said the number of arrests was very small given the number of spectators at the Surrey racecourse.
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