The phrase "a future number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a number that is expected or planned to occur at a later time.
Example: "In our projections, we anticipate a future number that will significantly impact our budget."
Alternatives: "an upcoming number" or "a forthcoming number".
Success came quickly, his restaurant DOM opened in 1999, is currently ranked six in the world and is heavily tipped as a future number one.
And for all the physical problems the five-time champion was clearly going through, Stephens produced a level of play under intense pressure that suggests Brad Gilbert's claim might be right - she could be a future number one.
Bulgarian Dimitrov has long been touted as a future number one, and the win over Djokovic in Madrid last month only heightened expectations around him, but he was playing in the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time and it showed.
There's a future number one centreman in Alex Galchenyuk who is only 19 and had a wicked rookie season and a top-six pest in Brendan Gallagher, who just turned 21 and is nominated for the Calder.
Thirdly, an additional variable representing the future number of ships calling at a port could be incorporated into our forecasting model for port-level LNG-demand in shipping.
A simple estimate of the future number of cases of vCJD in Ireland is therefore given by multiplying this risk by the estimated future number of cases in the UK.
Hospital beds assigned to each discipline can therefore be considered as a constraint to which the future number of public medical specialists can be bound.
One championship, two finals appearances, and countless clutch shots and defensive stands later, Pierce, at 35, is considered one of the league's sage big-game veterans, a future Retired Number Celtic, a nearly certain Hall of Famer.
As well as Djokovic played, Dimitrov's performance hardly justified the prediction in "L'Equipe" that he will be a future world number one.
Stockport-born Broady managed to break Garcia - whom Britain's most prominent player, Andy Murray, recently tipped as a future world number one - with ease early on to take a well-deserved first set in 23 minutes.
The great Ahmed Barada, a future world number two, happened to be the most famous sportsman in the country and his emergence, according to Elshorbagy, was a seminal moment in Egypt's squash development.
