Sentence examples for straight number from inspiring English sources

I can't get a straight number from anybody.

BARTZ:  Well, I think one of the reasons you can't get a straight number is it's a private company, so there's a lot of people that are doing their best analysis of that.

And because no distinction is made between the quality or strength of a unit or what that unit might mean to a group of users in a topic area, straight number counts just aren't very smart.

"One hears a lot said that Spain are not playing well or that they are playing without a straight number nine, or any other number of things," said Zidane.

It is now Higgins' 3rd straight number one album.

It is Jay-Z's third straight number one album in Canada.

His company, he said, preferred "a straight numbers deal".

And I could, with a little effort, convert some of the cells from straight numbers to formulas that varied with income, so that I could model alternative situations.

As Catherine Tanelli, 46, who now works in Citi's investment banking division put it: "If you do the math, and look at straight numbers, my salary is higher now although it is five years later.

Mr. Greisman was a day away from closing his "straight numbers deal" in which Abbott would pay the other generic rival, Zenith Goldline, as much as $2 million a month not to market its version of terazosin.

The finance team asks a lot of questions about cost benefit, as well it should, but we make sure we know how to define the actual benefit beyond straight numbers.