The phrase "this number shows" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you could use it to say, "This number shows that increased fundraising efforts have been successful."
This number shows the huge difficulties most entrepreneurs face in creating their company.
This number shows the wide distribution of these products and their relevance for consumers and the environment.
For deletions, there is no clear inflection point at which this number shows a sharp change.
Being approximately 5% of the loci that have been mapped, this number shows encouraging similarity to the frequency of multi-locus DArT markers reported in wheat.
This CpG index number shows the relative inflammatory potential of the genome and has previously been used in a study by Lundberg et al. (2003).
"This skewing of the numbers shows the committee's accountants are quite inexperienced and not all that interested in ensuring adequate disclosure is going on," said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist at Public Citizen.
This figure shows the number of D2D links established with different ordinate scale.
A closer look at the numbers shows that this cannot be right.
In addition, small numbers in this figure show the number of hops in message exchanges with reference to the previous cost calculation model for current 3G mobile systems[39].
This number simply shows the proportion of flowers that acquired from pollinators the necessary amount of pollen to set seed – the equivalent of one anther.
This figure shows that the number of HIV cases detected has increased sharply since 1996.
