Any number of people have already told me about it.

Let me just tell you what a number of human sources have told us.

But numbers alone do not tell the story, he said.

But those numbers, he continued, do not tell the whole story.

But the numbers tell only one side of the story.

But the numbers can tell only part of the story.

Its number told him the most important fact of all.

But the numbers tell only a small part of the story.

If so, that one number would tell them all they needed to know.

But even those numbers may not tell the whole story.