The phrase 'remaining number' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a quantity that has not been affected by a change in the original amount. For example: "The remaining number of tickets available for the play is 15."
But given the remaining number of eligible sons -- the youngest was born in 1947 -- that is considered unlikely.
In other words, if the remaining number of wins by New York plus the remaining number of losses by Milwaukee or Charlotte reaches six then the Knicks will be in the playoffs.
Failure to complete that task meant the drinker had to finish as many additional glasses as the remaining number on the clock.
The remaining number includes five inmates released on Sunday, including four men serving life sentences for murder, who had worked at the Governor's Mansion.
If an obsession with remaining number one foolishly caused America to adopt protectionist policies, that would reduce America's growth as much as China's.
Typically, he said, the lender determines how much it can earn on the balance of the loan for the remaining number of years by investing in United States Treasury notes.
Estimates on the remaining number of silkys, known as the "angels of the forest" for their white fur and tree-hopping acrobatic abilities, range from 300 to 2,000.
The model allows for the possibility of a "uniform swing" that would affect the vote in about the same way in all states, but the magnitude of the potential swing is calculated solely as a function of the number of undecideds in the race and the remaining number of days until the election, and not past volatility in the polls.
The lifetime performance of the protocols is illustrated in terms of remaining number of alive nodes.
It allows estimating the remaining number of nodes that each node can still handle.
I then compared the adjusted building permit data to the remaining number of dwellings in 2011.
