The phrase "affecting the number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or influences that change or impact a specific quantity or figure.
Example: "The recent changes in policy are affecting the number of applicants for the program."
Alternatives: "influencing the count" or "impacting the figure".
Patient relocation inevitably alters the population number and its structure, thereby affecting the number of admissions.
However, common drivers of cost-effectiveness included those affecting the number of RSV hospitalisations and those affecting costs.
Expression of miR-130a also reduces dendritic complexity without affecting the number of primary dendritic branches (Fig. 3).
Mobile data usage is flourishing, which in turn is affecting the number of wi-fi hot spots that restaurants, cafés and retailers offer.
Analysis of circulation models show that the conditions within South China Sea appears to be the main factor affecting the number of hurricanes landing here.
The dataset with 30 of the factors affecting the number of storms in years (see Table 2) are used to establish training set in two cases.
The numerical results from the fixed effect regression model of factors affecting the number of prescriptions are shown in Table 2.
These three genes were reported affecting the number, size and arrangement of bulliform cells in rice (Zou et al. 2011; Xu et al. 2014).
The level of medical facilities is an important factor affecting the number of people killed in road traffic accidents, which cost Pakistan about £260 million per annum [11].
However, the results consistently show that the difference in the unemployment rate has a more significant effect than the lag in affecting the number of labour market reforms.
Since another factor affecting the number of random encounters between liposomes and pRBCs is the movement of both particles in solution, we expect that the turbulent mixing in the bloodstream will permit the use of low targeting antibody amounts.
