Example Sentences

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The family will number three for the foreseeable future.

From BBC • May 3, 2025

By 2060, the population 65 or older will number 94.7 million, according to the Census Bureau; that would be a nearly 70% increase over the number in 2020.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

By election day the team will number 100 observers, Meilan said, with staff set to be present at some 1,000 of the country's 14,400 polling places.

From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2021

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

Brood sows will, if kept in an ordinarily thrifty condition, farrow two litters of pigs in the year, which will number from eight to twelve pigs to the litter.

From Australia, The Dairy Country by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs