The compartment is gravity-free and a large number of flat, roughly circular objects are floating about.

Twice the usual number of copseyes floated overhead, waiting.

The blue numbers of my digital clock floated in blackness across the room.

A number of small bug-like creatures floated in it.

A small number only floated for a time, hardly one in a thousand.

Analysis also takes a healthy cynicism about the accuracy of published data - particularly if bad numbers are floating around about the analyst's own company.

And all these numbers floating by, pure and naked information, wrapping me up in mathematics.

About 30 guests rode along in other cars, while a smaller number watched from below as tootling music floated from a coin-operated game nearby.

Water releases from multiple splash dams on tributaries were also often combined to maximize the number of logs floated throughout a given watershed.

Today, as in the past, a large number of small, non-motorized boats and barges float on the waters of the canals.