After Atlanta, many other cities and states started to use it as a special number to call in an emergency.

I thought for a few minutes, then dialed a special number.

We use them when a guy's luck starts running too good on one special number.

After wasting the better part of a day, he called the special number.

The charity said the cash, from the cost of calls to a special number, 'will be put to good use'.

He could not imagine a collar possibly having its own special number.

That produced hundreds of phone calls to a special number, but no significant leads.

Its special 900-phone number has averaged 400,000 calls a month.

I picked up his phone and dialed a special number.

Cities usually get this because they have a special number of people or are important.