1. He said that the hotel where a large number of Japanese allegedly visited prostitutes has been ordered to stop business pending further investigation.
2. A sizable number of people suggested that the industry should stop cranking out so many models so often.
3. stop number
3. The district government believes that the number of beggars will dramatically decrease on the streets if people stop giving to them.
4. A large number of the country's wealthy young men are not perfect gentlemen, but that does not stop many young women from dreaming of marrying them.
5. The operation has succeeded in reducing the number of targeted killings, but US and Iraqi commanders have found car and suicide bombers much harder to stop.
6. Prosecutors traced the phone number of her son in Germany, and relentlessly urged him to persuade her to stop running from the law.
7. Piot said that there is still time to stop it from worsening, but action is needed now on a number of fronts.
8. Eventually a few cars did stop and the number of us foreigners stranded soon diminished.
9. But she had never made it a secret that she didn't see why she would stop after baby number four.
10. He did not stop painting and writing while he was involved in a number of other business activities over the years.
noun
1. the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system
Synonym: focal ratio f number speed