"By the number of dollars he was ready to put up to have you done in."
By simple numbers, they should have had an easy time of it.
Whether I call you by your number, that is my choice.
And if you go by the numbers, that's where my best years were.
She was a good officer, always did things by the numbers.
By all the numbers, it should have happened long ago.
But in the end they were ground down by European numbers and resources.
This is a town where if you don't increase the budget by an expected number, it's considered a cut.
We're going in by the numbers, exactly the way they want it.
Allow me to tell you that we're doing this thing by the numbers.