2010 saw a noticeable increase in the number of Iranian tourists visiting Armenia – estimated to be 80, 000.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

Ferdowsi, the famed Iranian poet-historian, gives a number of accounts of royal chogan tournaments in his 9th century epic, Shahnameh ( the Epic of Kings ).

Shiraz is proud of being mother land of Hafiz Shirazi, Shiraz is an important centre for Iranian culture and has produced a number of famous poets.

Tehran also has small number of third generation Iranian Sikh community that has a gurudwara visited by Indian Prime Minister in 2012.

A small number of schoolchildren currently serve in the ranks of the Basij, an Iranian paramilitary force, according to CSUCS, generally above the age of 16.

" Eshaghian's documentary, Be Like Others, chronicles a number of stories of Iranian gay men who feel transitioning is the only way to avoid further persecution, jail and / or execution.

These are over a dozen coffee bars ; together with a number of niche food stores, including two Japanese, two Iranian, two Korean and one Malaysian.

The general trend is that the northern part of Great Neck ( north of the LIRR tracks ) has a greater number of Iranian families, while the southern part ( south of the LIRR tracks ) has a larger East Asian population.

Kharazi has held a number of governmental, diplomatic and academic posts and headed Iranian delegations at numerous international conferences, most importantly at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

The number of Iranian Mandaeans is a matter of dispute.

Whereas Alarabiya has put the number of Iranian Mandaeans as high as 60, 000 in 2011.

When this order was cancelled in February 1979 because of the Iranian Revolution, the British government, under pressure to modernise its tank fleet to maintain a qualitative superiority relative to the Soviet tank forces, decided to use the sudden surplus production capacity to procure a number of vehicles very close in design to the Shir-2, called the Challenger 1.

As a collective term, Dzhidi refers to a number of Iranian languages or dialects spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire.

By the 8th century, " Albania " had been reduced to a strictly geographical and titular ecclesiastical connotation, and was referred to as such by medieval Armenian historians ; on its place sprang a number principalities, such as that of the Armenian principality and kingdom of Khachen, along with various Caucasian, Iranian and Arabic principalities: the principality of Shaddadids, the principality of Shirvan, the principality of Derbent.

For a number of reasons — a growing consciousness of how little Iran was getting from the AIOC for its oil ; refusal of the AIOC to offer of a ‘ 50 – 50 % profit sharing deal ' to Iran as Aramco had to Saudi Arabia ; anger over Iran's defeat and occupation by the Allied powers — nationalization of oil was an important and popular issue with " a broad cross-section of the Iranian people.

Then two years later, in 1920, a number of Iranian and British football enthusiasts founded the Iranian Football Association ( Majmaa-i Football-i Iran ) to encourage Iranian players and to popularize the game.

Hussein also deported to Iran a large number of the residents of the area who were of Iranian descent.

Since the revolution university enrollment and the number of women in the civil service and higher education has risen ( to the alarm of some regime authorities ), and several women have been elected to the Iranian parliament.

However, the opposite trend has occurred since 2000, and the number of Christians with Iranian citizenship increased to 109, 415 in 2006.

" Iranian Studies, volume 38, number 3, September 2005.

From 1980 to the present, ski-lifts have been modernized and snow-making machines installed at many resorts, leading to concerns regarding the loss of traditional Alpine culture and questions regarding sustainable development as the winter ski industry continues to develop quickly and the number of summer tourists decline.

A substantial number of the tourists who visit the BVI are cruise ship passengers, although they produce far lower revenue per head than charter boat tourists and hotel based tourists.

Overall, more than two million tourists visited Crete last year, and this increase in tourism is reflected on the number of hotel beds, rising by 53 % in the period between 1986 and 1991, when the rest of Greece saw increases of only 25 %.

In 2008, the number of tourists entering the country had increased to 330, 000.

In 2000, the number of tourists to Guadeloupe reached 623, 000, a decrease from 693, 000 tourists in 1998.

In the mid 2000s, a number of karaoke bars sprouted in Sydney with karaoke boxes frequented by Japanese students and tourists and a few locals, especially on Thursday nights and weekends.

It was registered a total number of 184647 tourists in 2011.

Palin's travel programmes are responsible for a phenomenon termed the " Palin effect ": areas of the world that he has visited suddenly become popular tourist attractions – for example, the significant increase in the number of tourists interested in Peru after Palin visited Machu Picchu.

New Zealand has a large number of overseas drivers ( tourists, business, students and new immigrants ), as well as renting campervans / motorhomes / RV's during the New Zealand summer.

International visitors to Piedmont in 2002 accounted for 42 % of the total number of tourists with 1, 124, 696 arrivals.

) In recent times there has been a trend to create a number of travelling restaurants, specifically designed for tourists.

Recently, the number of tourists from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia has grown dramatically due to the increased popularity of the Korean wave (" hallyu ").

For $ 8 a day, tourists can take any number of rides on buses and trains operated by SBS Transit, SMRT Buses and SMRT Trains.

This makes tourism an important branch of the local economy, although time spent in the city by individual tourists or the number of hotels which can serve them are still not considered satisfactory.

The number of foreign tourists and media articles also reflect this fact.

The reduction in the number of vehicles, of noise levels and speed, is enabling tourists to observe increasing numbers of wild animals along the route.

The Autumn Glory Festival, a fall festival that attracts a great number of tourists, takes place in Oakland every October.

The number of visitors in 2007 was expected to total 20 million and by 2009, the annual rate was expected to top 28 million tourists.

About one-quarter came from Australia, with large contingents also coming from New Zealand, Japan, the United States and United Kingdom Over 62, 000 of the tourists were American, a number that has steadily increased since the start of regularly scheduled nonstop air service from Los Angeles.

Interest has been shown for a number of years by local assessors in the possibility of taxing boats.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

Since then, there has been a notable increase in the number of stations and also the accumulation of additional data and the development of new techniques for using it, leading to a better understanding of propagation phenomena.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.

For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.

The importance of the inorganic constituents in hard-surface cleaning has been emphasized in a number of papers.

Upon consideration of the variety of soils and fabrics normally encountered in the washing process, it is little wonder that the use of a number of detergent constituents having `` synergistic '' properties has gained widespread acceptance.

Worse still, in a number of cases it has been claimed that the Psithyrus female kills the Bombus queen.

The bottom part of a burrow has a number of side tunnels or `` cells '', each of which is provided with an egg plus a store of beebread.

Nevertheless, the theory that the determining influence of the hypothalamic balance has a profound influence on the clinical behavior of neuropsychiatric patients has not yet been tested on an adequate number of patients.

The number of successes on each shot is a value of a random variable that has values 0 or 1, and there are 5 such random variables here.

Their sum is X, the total number of successes, which in this experiment has the value Af.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

An advanced student has read a considerable number of descriptions of consonantal systems, including some of the more unusual types.

This carryover right has a number of things in common with a net operating loss carryover.

In West Virginia the number of white and Negro children attending the same school has increased almost twofold.

Moreover, whereas in Interstate Commerce Commission parlance `` variable cost '' means a cost deemed to vary in direct proportion to changes in rate of output, in the type of analysis now under review `` variable cost '' has been used more broadly, so as to cover costs which, while a function of some one variable ( such as output of energy, or number of customers ), are not necessarily a linear function.

He remarked: `` It has been clearly established that in a number of instances the message did not come from a spirit but was received telepathically by the medium from the sitter ''.

Mrs. Marr also has a number of parolees to `` mother '', watching to see that they do not break their parole and that they also learn to readjust to society.

The recent publicity attending the successful federal prosecution of a conspiracy indictment against a number of electrical manufacturers has evoked a new respect for the anti-trust laws that is justified neither by their rationale nor by the results they have obtained.

In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.