• Taekkyeon is also practised by a great number of people as a daily activity.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

  • When I went to vote there were a great number of people taking part in the Democratic primaries.

    BBC: Eric Gamboa

  • And we hope that a great number of those will be Iogen plants, patterned right after this facility here.

    NPR: Canadian Dreams of Ethanol Distilled from Grass

  • Dewhirst has been a very good employer for about 30 years and a great number of families here depend on the company.

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  • There are a great number of warships patrolling the main pirate areas.

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  • By contrast, if Turkey were promoted from candidate to member status it would have a great number of deputies in the European Parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • White House aides defend his actions, but it shows the president's top political adviser has his hands in a great number of policy issues.

    CNN: Kelly Wallace is a CNN White House correspondent.

  • The conference will present awarded, new or renewed institutions worldwide and a great number of exceptional projects hardly known to the international professional public.

    UNESCO: Venice Events

  • People make their careers at Rosen Hotels and now a great number of students who may not have otherwise had similar opportunities are as well.

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  • "There are a great number of these extraordinary creatures lumbering around the place, " he recalls, adding that one of them stole his shoes from outside the tent.

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  • With up to six months of ad-free web streaming available upon sign-up, music lovers in these markets can organically discover a great number of artists and bands.

    ENGADGET: Rdio on iPhone now shows which friends are listening, web streaming hits seven countries

  • Deflation creates a great number of losers, and many of these losers are perfectly innocent people who have just not been wise enough to anticipate the event.

    FORBES: Fear Not Deflation

  • He spends a great number of pages expanding on this conceit, meandering through the various networks of the global jihad and the different attacks on global business interests.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mozambique is marked by a great number of long-lasting challenges.

    UNESCO: Promoting Women��s Literacy in Angola and Mozambique

  • But, you know, for Congress to essentially go in and legislate history or try to legislate history is something that will drive a great number of Turks crazy now.

    NPR: Turkey Rattles Sabers at Kurdish Iraq

  • The growth of information that is available on-line has led to a great number of new businesses and opportunities ranging from cloud storage to content delivery to data analytics.

    FORBES: Digital Storage Needs the Right Stuff

  • The aim is to ensure that scientific knowledge about the very rapid disappearance of a great number of vegetable and animal species and the erosion of ecosystems leads to concrete measures.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • "We are confident that Lance and Livestrong will continue to have a great number of opportunities to compete and raise money for cancer victims, " said Mark Fabiani, a spokesman for Armstrong.

    WSJ: Triathlons Part Waters for Lance Armstrong

  • The challenges could seem overwhelming, said Cousteau, but Malec-McKenna added that there are a great number of global networks open to people to take action and make even the smallest changes to their lifestyle.

    CNN: Climate change: Debating solutions

  • The issue is that a great number of small businesses are taxed as pass- through entities, so the rate of the corporate tax would not necessarily apply to those taxed at the individual rate.

    FORBES: Do the Presidential Candidates' Platforms Address the Real Needs of Small Businesses?

  • In China, Japan did a great number of resource-for-infrastructure deals, where it built mines, roads, ore processing facilities, rail lines, shipping ports, and much more and took in exchange the mineral wealth that that infrastructure produced and helped to transport.

    FORBES: What's The Long Term Vision For China's Increased Investment In Africa?

  • And after the first debate he watched his performance, he looked at what he did well -- which was answering a great number of questions about everything from taxes to Medicare -- he looked at what he could have done better.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • In 2009, a great number of traditional buildings managed to stand a terrible earthquake in Kashmir, saving the lives of their inhabitants, while conversely, reinforced concrete buildings which were badly constructed collapsed completely in the same affected areas, killing everyone inside.

    UNESCO: Resilient Societies

  • From the thousands of applications the team at Fortuna has read at Haas, Wharton, INSEAD and other top schools, it is true that a great number of essays fail to resonate, or do not reveal the true stories that have made the candidates the persons that they are.

    FORBES: Connect

  • It previously belonged to the Princes of Liechtenstein, and was given to the National Trust in 2010 as a gift from the estate of the late Edna, Lady Samuel of Wych Cross, whose husband Harold, Lord Samuel of Wych Cross, collected a great number of paintings during his lifetime.

    BBC: Abbey painting 'is Rembrandt self portrait'

  • Supporters of the discount cards say that the group purchasing power of seniors will force drug companies to lower their prices -- the thinking is that the drug companies will want to get the business of a great number of seniors, and therefore will lower their prices to get their business.

    CNN: Kelly Wallace is a CNN White House correspondent.

  • It has also emerged on the radar screens of a great number of both retail and institutional investors thanks to the disclosure that Warren Buffett has begun adding it to the Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.B) portfolio, perhaps at the suggestion of a new member of his team, Ted Weshler, a longtime fan of the stock.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Given the perilous state of a great number of corporate pension funds and the firms that stand behind them, many pensioners may be better off in the hands of well-capitalised and -regulated insurers, especially as official compensation is more generous if an insurer fails to honour its obligations than if a company goes bust leaving an underfunded pension scheme.

    ECONOMIST: Pension buy-outs

  • For starters, the Wahhabi creed which is practiced by no more than 20 million people around the world, or less than 2% of the Muslim population, has become a dominant factor in the international Islamic establishment through an elaborate network of front organizations and charities, as well as in a great number of national establishments, including the United States.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Alexiev testifies on Wahhabi influence in US

  • When Westerners puzzle over why it's so hard for Israel to find moderate interlocutors among the Palestinians -- historically among the best educated, most entrepreneurial, and liberal of Arab societies -- a sad but simple part of the answer is that a great number of the Palestinian elites who might have filled that role were either killed or persuaded to leave long ago.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

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