Perhaps the biggest number to watch is one John Swinney won't announce and can't control: inflation.
According to GMB, Glasgow had the biggest number of blacklisted workers - 138 - followed by Edinburgh, which had 52.
His coalition, The National Forces Alliance, won the biggest number of parliament seats allocated for political groupings in the July parliament elections.
It comes as figures released by bosses at Eagles Meadow show it had the biggest number of visitors last year since opened in 2008.
The biggest number of vulnerable seats lie in the region bordering the Great Lakes, in states such as Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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Automakers like General Motors and Chrysler are taking on the biggest number of new employees in Detroit, and CVS Caremark is doing heavy hiring in the Big Apple.
Sweden has the biggest number of Moderates and Internet Globetrotters, 26%, followed by the UK with 21%, Germany with 19% and France, Italy and Spain with 9% of shoppers falling into these categories.
The Official Charts Company said the song, which is raising money for the Queen's Jubilee charities, was the biggest selling number one of the year so far, selling 142, 000 copies in the past week.
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However, this risk can be minimised by increasing the size of the biggest possible random number that can be chosen.
Perhaps what comes as the biggest surprise is the number of people still displaced by the combined disaster.
The world's biggest hotel operator by number of rooms announced impressive full-year results.
We may also remember that the biggest increase in the number of Welsh speakers is in the 3 - 5 year old category.
Krensavage notes that the company saw in May the biggest increase in the number of prescriptions written for its drugs of any company he covers.
For research I had to do a few days ago I needed to look at the biggest companies in a number of selected economies, including Austria.
They scored hits with tracks including Fools Gold, I Wanna Be Adored, She Bangs The Drums and Love Spreads - their biggest single, reaching number two in 1994.
Wesdorp won't discuss disappointments--even they can yield later payoffs--but says one of a researcher's biggest frustrations is the number of years it takes to bring products with real consumer benefit from the laboratory to the supermarket shelf.
The final cut was for the biggest holdings by the widest number of funds.
Thus, a number of the biggest selling biologic therapies are forecast to deliver substantial cumulative revenues once they have passed peak year sales.
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To get to the current 23% number, the biggest gains were made in 2009, 2010 and 2011, the years immediately following the 2007 launch of the Kindle.
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For almost all the negatives about the bank perceived from the outside, the bank's non-executives and a good number of its biggest investors would point to extenuating factors.
The unemployment rate in the UK currently stands at 7.8%, after August to September saw the biggest quarterly fall in the number of people out of work since 2001.
Scottish ministers argue it is reasonable to ask a small number of the biggest retailers to pay extra, rather than imposing alternatives like raising council tax or cutting business relief.
But the biggest driver of costs is the number of drugs that make it into late-stage studies and fail.
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Sir David said one of his "biggest concerns" was about the number of frigates and destroyers in the Royal Navy fleet.
Karen Carr, marketing manager of the MetroCentre in Gateshead, one of Britain's biggest malls, says that the number of shoppers is 5% up on this time last year.
"The biggest issue isn't the number of clubs but the size of the audience, " says Jordan Hirsch, who runs Sweet Home New Orleans, a nonprofit support agency for musicians.
The banking system had grown to eight times the size of the Cypriot economy's annual economic output - or GDP - although the restructuring of the two biggest lenders should significantly shrink that number.
At that time, that number made the Irish the biggest immigrant group.
Already the world's biggest babysitter, ABC is now the number two player in the U.S., second only to Knowledge Universe Education, cofounded by former junk-bond king Michael Milken and his brother, Lowell.
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