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The fishing season typically runs from May to October, and in recent years the state’s commercial salmon fishing fleet has numbered about 460 vessels.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025

“Southwest has a numerical boarding order, and it has numbered poles to make sure people get into the correct order before boarding,” says Raj Mahal, a software developer who created the PlanMoreTrips application.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2022

There will be 80 speakers primed to address an enthusiastic audience which in years past has numbered up to 18,000 attendees.

From Washington Times • Jul. 8, 2021

Steinway has numbered every piano it has made in its 165-year history.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2018

It is conducted by Miss Jacombs and Miss Stainton, and has numbered about twenty boarders and six day scholars.

From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)