For the next three years a large number of interested friends never ceased their efforts in behalf of the little church building.

"A number of orchestras have ceased operations," she said.

He'd lost number three boat, and number one had ceased reporting.

In December 2006 the project hit a number of difficulties and development ceased.

The number of cripples in the streets, soon ceased to surprise me.

The year is said to have been 1940, but the serial numbers come from the early- to mid-1930s and the weapon ceased production in 1937.

A number of historical artistic traditions, especially sculptural, simply ceased to be practiced.

At the same time, a number of older dioceses may have ceased to exist.

The numbers ceased flickering and became a stable set of coordinates.

But the number of new human infections mysteriously sputtered and then ceased.