number
noun
a numeral or group of numerals.
will number
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future tenseof number.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The family will number three for the foreseeable future.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
In the upper chamber, the number of senators drops from 315 to 200, while the lower Chamber of Deputies will number 400 instead of 630.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2022
Twenty years later, some of those same Taliban officials were among the delegation that struck a deal for the United States to leave Afghanistan, and they will number among the country’s new rulers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2021
The zoo has exhibited a handful of African penguins for several years in the Children’s Zoo, and they’ll be added to the colony in Africa Rocks that eventually will number about 35.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2017
Zagonyi will overtake White, assume command of the whole force, which will number about three hundred men, and turn the reconnoissance into an attack.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various
