Sentence examples for pulled a number from inspiring English sources

He just has some copyrights for some childish hand drawings".As for the $10bn in damages, Terry says: "He clearly just pulled a number out of nowhere".

A guy in a suit came on stage, tried to calm the frisky, young audience and, after a feeble effort to create suspense, dramatically pulled a number, my number, out of a hat.

/bus/dev/ thinks this is the sort of deal they want because they asked for our nominal valuation ($3.25 million, by the pneumatic valuation method, ie we pulled a number out of the air), and didn't balk when we said that the $850k would get them about a quarter of the company.

We pulled a number of names from the book throughout, and a few references to the Robert Wise film as well.

So they went around the room to every guest picker who had pulled a numbered chip out of a cup, piecing together the original order with help from the tiny screen on a photographer's camera.

Or are we going to say, we're going to drop it by, you know, pulling a number out of the [hat], 250 billion a year, to where it gets down to a manageable size in four or five years?

("I'd be pulling a number out of the air," one analyst said).

"At some medical offices, you feel like you should pull a number like at the deli," she said.

Mets General Manager Omar Minaya, asked what he thought about Manuel's pulling a number switch, noted, with a smile, that "it wouldn't be very original".

There was no way to pull a number out of the air and separate it from the rest of the budget".

"When the Fed pulls a number like that and the market reacts the way it does, people who have made money on the short side give some back".