Sentence examples for forces number from inspiring English sources

Its armed forces number half a million, although a good bit of their equipment dates back to the Shah.

The paramilitary local police forces number about 7,500 officers in 46 districts, and officials hope to expand them to 30,000 officers.

At any given time, those forces number more than 20,000 military personnel, nearly 200 fighter and support aircraft and at least one aircraft carrier and its accompanying warships, which include submarines and destroyers equipped with long-range cruise missiles.

Some have identified themselves as Russian marines from Sevastopol, all are wearing standard Russian uniforms and although number places have beenb blanked out, some of them have lost their covers and are clearly Russian armed forces number plates.

Tellingly, conscript soldiers who have completed secondary education (known as bachilleres), and are therefore considered middle class, cannot by law be sent into battle.The armed forces number only 140,000.

Since Mr Museveni's forces number 100,000 or so, including militias, many northerners wonder how hard the government is really trying to crush the rebellion.Fewer places to hideThat said, peace looks more likely now than for a decade.

Coalition forces numbered 795,000 in the 1991 war.

Abd el-Krim's forces numbered at most 13,000 men.

At their peak in 2011, international forces numbered close to 150,000.

In 1713 Prussia's armed forces numbered 38,000 soldiers, supported in large part by foreign subsidies.

It faces 50,000 US troops (plus tens of thousands of contracted mercenaries) and Iraqi forces numbering over 1.5 million.