Sentence examples for were numbers from inspiring English sources
noun
An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
- Zero, one, -1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.
The chalked characters were numbers, not letters.
Maybe your numbers weren't good, but they were numbers.
There were numbers for clubs and hotels that had closed long ago, including many of his own.
Nope, 27 up and 27 down: those were numbers I could comprehend, at least until Joyce made the safe sign.
What prompted fans and sportswriters to obsess over suspected juicers in the national pastime — while they were unfazed by similar accusations in football — were numbers.
He told ABC's This Week that there were "numbers of staffers who are coming forth now just talking about the way he has dealt with them".
"We couldn't read all the numbers," Mr. Hanlin testified later that year, "but we knew they were numbers and could be used to trace the vehicle".
But he said that there were "numbers of staffers who are coming forth now just talking about the way he has dealt with them".
Even from the ventilating aperture in the centre of the ceiling there were numbers of individuals to be seen peering upon the animated and densely crowded assembly below.
Well there were numbers from High Society, as well as from other classics such as Brigadoon, Kismet and Meet Me in St Louis in this easy-listening, misty-eyed and full-throated hymn to MGM's musicals.
Crippling sanctions were number one.
