The phrase 'pass the number' is perfectly correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to ask someone to pass on a contact number or any other kind of numerical value. For example: "Can you pass the number so I can give them a call?".
Sierra Leone now looks set to pass the number of cases in Liberia.
The Wall Street Journal reckons that "the era of the personal computer is drawing to a close" - with Gartner calculating that by 2013 the number of smartphones will pass the number of PCs, by 1.82bn to 1.78bn.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimated this month that if significant reforms do not pass, the number of uninsured Americans could grow by 10 million over just the next five years.
"But if we pick up on some hostile phone chatter, and we pass the number on to the Americans, who then pinpoint the phone and target the person, did we provide intelligence for the killing?" The official, like others interviewed on the issue, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the legal delicacy of the case.
At its current growth rate, Barbie Girls should pass the number of Second Life registered users between November and January based on Second Life's existing growth rate.
Ericsson and Nokia analysts predict that the number of mobile users will pass the number of fixed lines (around 880 million users) by early 2004.
But now, wise heads say, with bar codes and scanners, all you need to do to buy your milk is to pass the numbers over a little camera.
For all charts, there was an 'overlap zone' of visions within which it was uncertain whether participants would pass the number-plate test.
The analysis therefore concentrates on the subset of participants (n=59) with vision in the 'overlap zone' between 6/9 and 6/36 where there was uncertainty whether someone with this level of vision would pass the number-plate test.
Within the overlap zone, sensitivity of the 6/12 cut-off to identify those who will fail the number-plate test was 97%, and specificity of the 6/12 cut-off to identify those who will pass the number-plate test was 63% (see also table 2).
Using a Snellen chart of the format used here, which has the same number of letters and similar spacing on the 6/12 line as the logMAR charts, the 6/12 cut-off best reflects the ability to pass the number-plate test when the acuity is scored as the lowest line that a subject can read in full.
