"material number" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a term used to refer to a specific type of unique identification number assigned to an item or material (such as a fabric, machine part, or product). For example, "The material number of the fabric I need is C123456."
And, if one that we do publish provokes a material number of complaints, then we carefully consider and do, on occasion, pull it.
"We have to recognise that a material number of Australians were sufficiently concerned about our commitment to Medicare that they changed their vote," Turnbull said.
I am confident that a material number of our customers have been affected, which is why I'm taking the precaution of warning all our customers".
"To make a white-collar practice work, you have to have an incredibly strong and credentialed lawyer who can generate a material number of matters," said Peter Zeughauser, a consultant to large firms.
"The results of the open offer are expected to be announced on 9 June 2009, and we highlight the risk that a material number of shares (possibly as many as 1 billion) may be unsubscribed, and thus left to the rump placing.
The strain was deposited to Thailand culture collection (BIOTEC, Thailand) with the biological material number BCC45739.
The statement itself is little short of remarkable, holding out the possibility that material numbers in even the amended tax return could be off by 50%.
Environ Health Perspect 123(4):360–366; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1307031 In Table S4 of the Supplemental Material, numbers of observations (N) and corresponding percentages were mislabeled as mean values (kg/m) ± SD.
Listing papers published with grant support could be accompanied by a field that would indicate sex of the experimental material, numbers of males and females, and results reported by sex.
The aim of the present study was a comprehensive, systematic, and specific investigation of the relationship between linguistic and numerical cognition, considering the impact of asemantic vs. semantic processing and the type of material (numbers compared to letters vs. words).
Our findings revealed that the extent of numerical advantages depends on the cognitive level of the task (asemantic vs. semantic) as well as the type of material (numbers compared to letters vs. words).
