Last year publishers brought out 1,963 new romances (including 95 in electronic form) for an American audience estimated by the association at 41 million.

The moderator looked up the word in a dictionary and read to an audience estimated at 19 million a brief definition of the religion.

Some of those fists trembled with age, but they went up anyway before a roaring audience estimated at 10,000.

An audience estimated at 5.4 million said goodbye.

Until 2007, were presented officially 1607 spectacles, to an audience estimated at 1.2 million people.

It's also heard in 27 other countries around the world, with a total audience estimated at eight million.

The audience, estimated at 3.1 million, is small compared with network television.

Norman played on the conference's final night to an audience estimated at 200,000 people.

The concert was watched via satellite by an audience estimated at over 50 million people.

The programme has attracted good audiences, estimated at between 300,000 and 350,000 people.