Well, the numbers might be small, but that misses the point.

A number of miners were missing, but more than 300 others managed to escape to safety, according to local reports.

"Substantial numbers of people are missing, in our view 600,000."

A number of artifacts were also missing from the collection.

Some numbers are missing, and some signs have been put in.

The element 2 is not a generating set, as the odd numbers will be missing.

A number of others missed the battle for one reason or another.

A number of key points are still missing from the action plan.

But he noted that a number of details were missing.

The number that he had just named was missing.