Sentence examples for retrieve a number from inspiring English sources

Soon, experts say, the phones will be designed to communicate over short distances with other hand-held electronic devices, like personal digital assistants, so that the phone could retrieve a number from a Palm Pilot or similar device.

And unfortunately, we couldn't retrieve a number of company devices from you and the others since you claimed that they were coincidentally all lost or damaged just before you decided to sue the company.

Such queries retrieve a number of tuples, or objects, from the database, which can be generally viewed as a set of attribute values represented as data points in a multi-dimensional data space.

Various analysis routines specific for Dynasonde applications perform inversions of measured parameters (range, angles of arrival, polarization, line-of-sight Doppler speed, amplitude) of the echoes to retrieve a number of ionospheric parameters (vertical profile of the plasma density, vector velocities of the plasma structures, spectra of small-scale irregularities, etc).

The day after leaving, Hall sent Hendrik back to the ship to retrieve a number of forgotten items.

In this bonus mission, entitled "Xen Attacks", two Vortigaunts, designated as Drone Subjects X-8973 and R-4913, are given a mission by the Nihilanth to retrieve a number of crystals stolen from Xen by human scientists from the Black Mesa Research Facility.

Coliseum employees have also retrieved a number of lost love letters written to performers.

(Mr. Floyd had retrieved a number of keys from his godmother, who owned the house, and was trying them one by one).

Forensic archaeologists retrieved a number of artefacts including parts of the studio clock and all its mechanism, most of the metal from the lamps in the central light fitting, and some of the rare book collection – including The Sights and Sounds of Fair Japan.

It retrieved a number of temperature profiles but broke as it tried to burrow its way into the comet's subsurface.

The hacker who claimed responsibility for the Democratic National Committee email leak claims to have breached the Clinton Foundation's servers and retrieved a number of files potentially damaging to the Democratic Presidential nominee — but the Foundation denies any such breach occurred.