The phrase "to check the number of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used when describing an action or process of verifying or counting the quantity of something. Example: Before finalizing the purchase, the customer asked the salesperson to check the number of items in their shopping cart.
Screening an embryo to check the number of chromosomes can be expensive, with PGS typically costing between £2,000 and £3,000 in the UK.
Sanofi Pasteur MSD, which manufactures some of the jabs, said it had been asked by the DoH to check the number of doses available in the UK and how many could be sent from Europe.
Art Technology will focus on programs that allow people to check the number of minutes left on their plans at companies like AT&T Wireless Services, or to buy pants from the J. Crew unit of the Texas Pacific Group.
In an era of near-constant mutual affirmation — pause here to check the number of likes on your most recent selfie — why let a little thing like death stand in the way?
For some marketing purposes I was told to check the number of followers, of which more in a moment; and this had me wasting some time on the math of Twitter followership.
I have also known people who feel the need to check the number of pages before they start a book, people who like to read the acknowledgments first and even people who find out the font before they settle into a novel.
They said they did not even know they had sold the winner until the man came in on Wednesday to check the numbers of his three lottery tickets.
If you're after the best possible user experience, it will be wise to check the numbers of links per page.
To check the number and types of diatoms, Dr. Patrick invented a device called the diatometer, a plastic box containing microscope slides that when strategically placed in a stream collects the maximum number of the organisms.
This encoding method enables us to quickly check the number of mismatches between two bit-strings, using two 'XOR' and one 'OR' bitwise operations.
Starting from the root of the DAG and proceeding from the parent to its children, we check the number of genes assigned to each node that appear in our data.
