The phrase "a target number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific number that is aimed for or intended to be achieved in a particular context, such as in business, finance, or project management.
Example: "Our sales team has set a target number of 1,000 units to sell by the end of the quarter."
Alternatives: "goal figure" or "objective number".
But Cooper said the program aims to encourage diversity without setting a target number of vendors.
Interrogators were set a target number for completed interrogations, and advised to limit each session to under an hour.
Each book has a target number of pledges it must receive to be viable (generally between 500 and 1,000).
If a target number was exceeded, part of the escrow money would go all the 29 teams.
A target number of 40 had been announced, but Thompson said Saturday that he would invite more players if necessary.
But there is no mention of how much money banks would have to put toward reworking bad loans or a target number of new loan modifications.
The Flood Re scheme allows for the environment secretary to set a target number of homes to be covered by the insurance scheme, with the likely figure set to be 500,000 properties.
Instead of a series of Hail Marys, you're handed a target number of flowers to collect, or giants to kill; instead of manna from heaven, you are rewarded with experience points in the XP bar.
In the first, as depicted in Fig. 1, the subjects were asked to search for a target (number 5) in an image with distractors (numbers 2) placed on a regular array.
In an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, a reward scheme for attending a target number of school days increased average attendance when the scheme was in place, but had heterogeneous effects after it was removed.
These results imply that motor preparation is contaminated both by the direct activation of number magnitude and by the congruity between the spatial location of a target number and its magnitude.
