You can also achieve your purpose with a nested grep.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @texts = ('this is 110',
        'cats have 9 lives',
        'dogs have 4 legs',
        'no numbers here',
        'my uncle has 5 children and 17 grandchildren');

my @numbers = (1, 11, 5, 4, 67, 9, 45);

# for efficiency, we turn all numbers into RegExes
my @regex_num = map {qr /\D$_\D/} @numbers;

my @matches =
        grep {my $txt=$_; grep {$txt =~ /$_/} @regex_num
        } @texts;

print join "\n", @matches, "\n";

__END__
cats have 9 lives
dogs have 4 legs
my uncle has 5 children and 17 grandchildren

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Your request is a special case of another interesting one that was answered some weeks ago (comparing arrays). Please have a look at it also for a discussion on efficiency.
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