1.   A vast number of tourists visit the island every year.

2.   During the summer, over a million tourists visit the island each year.

3.   But the two and a half million visitors who throng the island each year are not deterred.

4.   Hundreds of thousands of German tourists visit the island each year, attracted by its low prices and tropical beaches.

5.   Most important, it furnished millions of gallons of oil and thousands of tons of wheat to the island each year.

6.   Travelers trying to make last-minute flight reservations to the islands this year should confront fewer problems than usual.

7.   He said in a message to Ona there had been a remarkable reduction in the level of violence on the island this year.

8.   Minister Datuk Amar Dr Sulaiman Daud said the ministry had received many applications from the States to gazette their islands this year.

9.   More than one million stopover and cruise ship passengers visit the Dutch and French side of the island every year.

10.   The experts called for an international mission of experts to visit the islands this year and produce an accurate assessment as a first step to save the site.