"Thirty-five is the proper number of tribes, there can be no more!"
Therefore why not make marks which need be counted up to the proper number.
Now I see that seven is, indeed, the proper number.
It took them two weeks to do a proper number on the radiation damage alone.
He walked over to his phone and called the proper number.
I can give you the proper number, ma am.
Unfortunately a new recruit calls out his proper number by mistake.
Sometimes "super" secret agents use two letters to stand for their proper numbers.
He had to consult a sheet on his desk for the proper number.
"At that time, two buses had the proper number of children and came back to the city," he said.