The phrase "marked the number" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to indicate or label a specific number or set of numbers. Example: The teacher marked the number of students absent from class on the attendance sheet.
They marked the number of women and children who died through family violence in the state last year.
I'd be very interested to see a graph that marked the number of words written about her to the number of sales and streams she's had.
Sport England figures released this week made for mixed reading for those who believed the Games would result in a sportier nation but in women's boxing the effect has been marked – the number of 16-to-19-year-olds 16-to-19-year-olds 16-to-19-year-olds 16-to-19-year-olds 16-to-19-year-olds
Critically, the whiteboard was big enough so that children had to walk a few steps in order to reach the position at which they marked the number on the number line.
When Forbes, which is in the business of counting rich people's money, dug into just exactly how wealthy Trump was -- and that is not an easy task, the magazine said, involving "interviewing more than 80 sources and devoting unprecedented resources to valuing a single fortune" -- it marked the number at $4.5 billion.
They also marked the number of cough components per each cough event.
If time allows, mark the number of responses for each selection on the board.
It marks the number of children he has freed from slavery.
There will be a line marking the number of M.P.s — three hundred and twenty-six — needed for a parliamentary majority.
We were never trained in what to say to mourners, only to mark the number as dead so it would be taken off the dialers' database.
I'm more than halfway through my 27 marathons in 27 days challenge through South Africa for Sport Relief – 27 days to mark the number of years Nelson Mandela spent in prison.
