Still, some industry officials say performance numbers tell investors most of what they need to know.

If performance costs are up, the answer is to reduce the number of performances.

He was dropped in 1992 after a number of poor performances.

The contract also calls for a 10 percent increase in the number of performances over two years.

They performed this 200 times in order to generate their performance numbers.

Note that performance numbers from such a test will not be reliable, as is clearly shown here.

He has also had a number of good batting performances.

The number of performances doubled to 24 the following year.

There were, as always, a number of outstanding individual performances.

To do this, they have offered an increasing number of free performances in public areas.