"I haven't looked at all the numbers about what it would take," Pettitte said.
And yet, he noted, "We have plenty of numbers about the economic consequences but none of the numbers about the social consequences".
It is easy to get lost in the numbers about climate change, but there are a couple that stick in my head.
TBS is also No. 1 with 18- to 34-year old viewers in the quarter, as of March 18. (TBS issued the numbers about a week before the official end of the quarter).
From a marketing research viewpoint it's always been this way: they check the numbers about who knows what about which films, and if it doesn't reach a certain level of recognition the film won't open, no matter what happens.
They slept not a wink, checking and re-checking the numbers "about 50 times during the night" before they could phone and confirm whether their life was, indeed, about to be altered irrevocably.
Captain Uberti said the Coast Guard and other response agencies were focused on cleanup within an hour of the accident but had failed to provide city officials with updates, in part to ensure that the numbers about the extent of the spill were accurate.
Jo Coburn reports from the Bombardier factory in Derby where she crunched the numbers about the UK economy on the day George Osborne delivers the 2014 Autumn Statement.
But a lot of the numbers about how Google has developed its own apps platform, Android Play, don't seem to support this.
Perhaps more telling than ancient crypt inscriptions are the numbers about hunger that we know from later history.
Despite the numbers – about 156,000 addicts aged 16 to 24 in the UK, and 25,000 under 16 – their tale is rarely told.
