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VOA Special English Section A WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Numbers: I, for One, Use These Expressions Often By Jill Moss / Broadcast: Sat, 31 May 2008 16:00:00 UTC Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. Today I will tell about expressions using numbers. Let us start with the number one. Numbers can be __________. On the one hand, they are simply numbers. On the other hand, ____________________________. I for one use these expressions a lot. Many people consider themselves number one, the most important person. They are always ________________________________________ and ______________________________. It is as if they are the one and only person on Earth. Some people however, are not so ____________________. My brother is such a person. It is true – no joke. I am not trying to pull a fast one on you. First, you have to understand that my brother is one in a million. He is such a nice person. All his friends like him. They consider him one of the boys. Recently, ________________________________________. It was just one of those days. ____________________________. So he stopped at a local bar -- a drinking place -- after leaving work. My brother ________________________________________ -- a quick one – before he went home. But a quick one turned into one or two, and soon those became one too many. As my brother was leaving, ______________________________ -- one for the road. His friends became ____________________. One by one, they _____________________________________________. Now my brother is a ______________________________ person. He is at one with himself. He recognizes when __________________________________________________. So he accepted ____________________________________________________________. At one time in the past, my brother had been in love with this woman. She is a great person -- kind, ____________________ and ____________________ -- all good qualities rolled up into one. But sadly their relationship did not work. ____