A number of people were killed. The violence might have ended quickly.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

A number of people have taken over a children's climbing set. They've set up sheets and tents and what look like make shift sleeping bags.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

or the United States," "There well may be a number of people who are considered Taliban because they get paid to fight, because they see no alternative."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"There is another reason which of course they do not say, and it is understood by a number of people, including myself, that Iran-Ayatollah Khamenei wants the bomb,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

She visited a number of countries and later wrote reports about how people were dealing with World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

The study found a sixty-three percent increase in the number of people treated for rock climbing injuries in American hospitals.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

The walls of water also struck a number of other nations, and killed more than two hundred thirty thousand people.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

The form asks for the number of people living or staying in a house, apartment or mobile home.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

The study also found that alcohol drinking disabled a large number of people around the world.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Yet a growing number of users around the world see it as the latest method for busy people to get and share information quickly.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

And he replaced a number of officials with people whose loyalty he could trust.

VOA: special.2011.01.27

He produced a number of publications accusing the Jewish people of organizing international plots.

VOA: special.2011.01.27

The Millennium Development Goals for two thousand fifteen call for a fifty percent decrease in the number of people without safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

There was also a drop in the number of people on long-term unemployment assistance.

VOA: special.2009.08.28