The phrase "meet the number" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could use it to refer to a requirement that must be met such as, "In order to qualify for the job, you must meet the number of years of experience required."
The number of bowl games expanded to meet the number of available teams.
It was a way to talk with people -- read "voters" -- although he quickly realized he would need to bicycle hundreds of miles to meet the number of people he could address at a single event.
(AP) — Border Patrol agents working about 100 miles north of the Mexican border say they have been given arrest quotas at odds with agency practices and threatened with punishment if they failed to meet the number.
When the results are assessed using the ARI measure, the number of clusters must meet the number of classes in the clustering partition recognized as the ground truth in order to maximize the value of ARI.
Without going into a lot of detail about what they do, Preempt CEO Ajit Sancheti said at a high level even large companies lack the security personnel they need to meet the number of threats a company faces on a daily basis.
Considering the U.S. doesn't seem to have enough local talent to meet the number of slots tech firms desperately need to fill, it's no surprise that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is being pressured by powerful Silicon Valley companies to ease quotas and allow even more foreign hires.
There had been speculation that Conseco would fail to meet the numbers, and its shares immediately leaped after hours, trading as high as $15.25, more than a dollar above the $14.20 that the stock closed at in normal trading.
Companies do accounting acrobatics to "meet the numbers," provoking violent reactions when per-share results are even a penny shy of "expectations".
The state has repeatedly been ordered by federal courts to reduce its prison population and granted extensions to do so when it failed to meet the numbers.
Unable to meet the numbers of his predecessor Colbert, whose shtick miraculously resonated with viewers on both ends of the political spectrum, Comedy Central canceled Wilmore's show last week, making me one of his final guests.
