The majority of visitors ______ in favor of his conclusion that the number of books published on the subject ______ simply surprising.

The number of people invited ___fifty, but a number of them____ absent fordifferent reasons．

Very few _________ his address in the town.

In our school library there ____ a number of books on science and the number of them ____ growing larger and larger.

My mother asked me if ______________ a picnic the next week in our school.