The world is very small, as a good number of our people on the run have found out.

The number of people living in the city kept growing quickly.

The number of people working in the service industry was 4,113.

The number of people over 85 could increase by nearly 400,000.

And any number of other people I'd known in my life.

The story is usually told by a small number of people.

A. I think a number of people in the administration probably believe so.

But the number of people outside the work force is well above the national average.

A growing number of people seem to be thinking the same way.

We also have to control the number of people in the area.