These days, a growing number of parents around the country are buying property for their college-age children to live in.

Also, growing numbers of consumers buy drugs from foreign countries over the Internet.

A limited number of private collectors have also bought work.

A number of municipalities bought into the electrical power industry.

Even at the reduced price, the number of games people buy make this a great deal for everyone involved.

But apparently a good number of us believe enough of what they say to go out and buy tickets to that show.

Along with myself, a number of fund managers here have recently bought houses and need stuff to go in them.

The actual number of guns bought may have been even higher if individual customers took home more than one each.

An increasing number of people don't buy a paper in the morning now because the Metro is enough to keep them occupied for the journey.

She said that a number of people from the New York area had been buying property there in the last few years.