Sentence examples for doing things by the numbers from inspiring English sources

Doing things by the numbers is easy enough in the Army, where only four numbers really count--hut, tewp, threep and fo'.

If we do things by the numbers, we'll score points".

Even if you think you're doing things by the book, you are probably making a number of security mistakes every day that could potentially be costly to your identity and your life.

Hiaasen seems to be doing things by numbers now: characterisation is generally a means to a cheap laugh, which means his protagonists are easy to get a handle on and hard to like – and that goes for the righteous good guys, too.

Maine does not like to do things by the book.

Very important do things by the book.

Do things by yourself, especially new things.

We make that day by doing things publicly...first in small numbers, then in greater numbers, until it's simply the way things are and no one thinks twice.

"My impression of Waugh's early captaincy is that he did things pretty much by numbers," says the former Australian Test player and Warwickshire coach John Inverarity, now a university lecturer in leadership.

By feeling the effects of doing things differently one can reduce his or her fears.

He's got a rep for being a by-the-numbers guy who gets things done.