Each number was treated as a fraction between -1 and 1.

Health authorities contract a hospital to treat a specific number of patients.

I've already said that we have to treat a small number of very large patients.

A growing number of autistic children are treated with drugs.

The form continued to be popular throughout the Greek period and treated a number of different themes.

Ten times that number of people have been treated for hypothermia.

However such numbers should be treated with extreme caution (see above).

A number of other people were treated for minor injuries and shock.

He said "a huge number of kids" were treated like pawns by parents who put their own problems first.

It has been used traditionally to treat a number of ailments.