I'll catch that fish. It has my number on it.
Shore folk think sailors are heartless, and that when a poor chap is lost overboard, they only say that So-and-so has lost the number of his mess! and, after having an auction over his kit in the fo'c's'le, then dismiss him from their memory! — J.C. Hutcheson, Fritz and Eric, 1880.
Commuting to work is the number one reason to own a car.
... anything done. We drove our schools to be number one in the nation. We cut taxes 19 ...
... money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it. That's number one. ...