Sentence examples for sensible number from inspiring English sources

"I believe the sensible number to be in the order of 14,000 to 14,500".

May I suggest that there's an equally strange argument that goes along the lines of "the Americans use many thousands of staff so if we're using less then we're using a sensible number".

Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at the accountants Deloitte, told the BBC that he suspected the figure was a "sensible number taking account of the scale of the business and their history of past losses".

Even some larger state schools manage to keep this proportion to a sensible number.

Now there's a sensible number of pictures to admire, don't expect to see any of the portraits of artists and politicians that helped Kuba make his name.

The New York Daily News noted that "The show pays more attention to relationships we care about, hints at a sensible number of new ones that show some promise, and thus doesn't rely on obscure medical mysteries to carry the whole dramatic burden", and noted that "the prognosis for this season could be better than last season seemed to foreshadow".

"It is useful when trying to understand what's going on to have sensible numbers," he said.

Numeracy is basic numeric self-defense: how to assess the numbers presented by other people, and how to produce sensible numbers of one's own.

Governments thinking of planting forests or creating nature reserves, for instance, can put sensible numbers on the value people attribute to them, and thus work out whether the land in question would be better used for agricultural or recreational purposes.Yet, as the story of Zaglossus attenboroughi suggests, these methods have their limits.

A new long-range bomber that can penetrate the most advanced air defences is thus seen as vital in preserving America's unique ability to project power anywhere in the world.If getting the new bomber into service fast is a priority, so too is keeping the price low enough to be able to build it in sensible numbers, and thus keep it safe from political ambush.

"Using the drones to deliver precise tiny doses of nutrients or pesticides to the plants that need them rather than dosing the whole greenhouse, that might be a good use for the existing drones once we have them in mass production and have the cost down to sensible numbers".