Dormitory buildings might house a small number of students or many hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

A small number receive support from the United States government.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Only a small number of them are signed into law.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

"And I don't think that's going to disappear by any finding of a limited review of a relatively-small number of ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

More broadly, many critics are asking why the debate is taking place at all, since it affects such a small number of women.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

"It is a tax code that makes it all too easy for a small number of individuals and companies to abuse overseas tax havens to avoid paying any taxes at all,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

Until Thursday,only a small number had been freed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

While the results may be disappointing, proponents of testing say identifying even a small number of people is worth the effort because early treatment saves lives and can prevent the spread of HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Another thing is that most patients - And of those who were tested, only a small number were positive, even though the researchers tested 30 times more people than would normally be tested for HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

At the end of five weeks, the school was too small for the number of children who wanted to attend.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

"There are concerns in most O.E.C.D.countries that the number of nurses is too small to respond to the demand.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Another report on Thursday showed a small drop in the number of newly jobless workers last week.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

This could explain why Taiwan has a large number of small earthquakes, but rarely a major one.

VOA: special.2009.07.07