Perhaps the reason has more to do with hard numbers.

This is the point at which I began to need hard numbers.

While there are no hard numbers, their share is not that large.

The lack of hard numbers does not seem to help in the debate.

While there are no hard numbers on how well the idea has worked, as they say in the good book, it can't hurt.

I saw a few reports of sales being "better than expected", but I've yet to see anything with hard numbers.

The cold, hard numbers, they felt, were clearly in their favor.

It will be six months, at least, before the Canadian government has any hard numbers on how many people are really making the move.

These are hard numbers, and nobody else is counting them.

The city's software industry has had very little in the way of hard numbers to promote itself.

There were many others, said the mayor's office, but it had no hard numbers on total job offers.

Want the hard numbers for our most recent quarter, ended September 1999?

But while the experts agree on the trend, hard numbers are difficult to come by.

We think that's unfortunate, but looking at cold, hard numbers might explain why.

"That hardly seems possible, given what we've seen from the hard numbers on the German economy."

Two months later, the company's popularity remains more a matter of taste than hard numbers.

This information is boiled down to hard numbers for internal analysis.

And the researchers presented hard numbers, based on the surveys, to make their case.

"I love to see these hard numbers bend at the knees."

But the skepticism seems to involve more than just a lack of hard numbers.

Its sample is based "on hard numbers, the scores reported back to us by students who took the actual test."

Most went it alone, and there are no hard numbers on how many underwent surgery together.

But no hard numbers were associated with such evidence.

"It's difficult to get the hard numbers because there's not a mechanism for women to report this," she said.

The demand for hard numbers strikes many in the industry as unfair.