The phrase "working number" is not correct and not usable in written English.
Instead, you could use a phrase such as "contact number" or "phone number". For example, "Please provide your contact number so that we can get in touch with you."
While texting "STOP" works in some situations, serious spammers may take your reply as evidence of a live working number.
Fly, rumor — that was Cashman's message, one he had to deliver through the press because, he said, he doesn't have a working number for Jones's agent.
They use computers to generate millions of possible number combinations and then send messages to those addresses without knowing whether they have dialed a working number.
The river flotilla of 99 aluminium boats emitting blue flames sank when the rear one filled with water.Mr Cai's favourite working number of 99 has brought him better luck in "Falling Back to Earth".
Even replying to unwanted messages with "NO" or "STOP" — the usual method for unsubscribing from an unwanted text message list — may only verify to spammers that you have a working number that can then be resold.
Last year sales were 16.8 million, so figure 16 million as a working number for this year's prediction.
The pseudo-ads he posts around Lower Manhattan bear actual working numbers.
The next two locomotives were manufactured by W. G. Bagnall: Buckingham, 0-4-0ST, works number 16, built 1876, and Wotton, 0-4-0T, works number 120, built 1877.
By 1894 two Manning Wardle locomotives were in use: Huddersfield, works number 616, built 1876, and Earl Temple, works number 1249, built 1894.
Wotton No. 2, works number 1415, built 1899, was bought on 7 February 1899 to replace Huddersfield.
"We're trying to work numbers out.
