Example sentences of "the figures for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from Security , though , there was little good news in the figures for the non-telecom businesses . |
| 2 | The figures for the three months to the end of November indicate that the policy of high interest rates is beginning to have an impact in slowing down the across-the-board demand for imports which has set Britain on course for a worst ever annual trade deficit . |
| 3 | But there was some comfort in the figures for the Government and for an already hard-pressed pound , which could have faced another battering if the deficit had been worse than the expected £1.5billion . |
| 4 | Thus the figures for the second and third choices had an overlap . |
| 5 | The figures for the breeder stations alone would have meant about 250 large reactors dotted around the British Isles . |
| 6 | If the radical criminologists ' assumptions are correct , then the figures for the second half of the 19th century might probably show the opposite from that which they do ’ ( Emsley , 1988 , p. 42 ) . |
| 7 | Thus , during the disorder of the first part of the 1980s , the authorities utilized the 1936 Act procedure to ban many more marches than they had done before : in 1981 alone , there were 42 banning orders , and the figures for the following years were also high : 13 , 9 , and 11 in 1982 , 1983 , and 1984 respectively ( Home Office , 1985b : 23 ) . |
| 8 | Its share of total industrial activity has varied over the period but the figures for the late 1960s are representative . |
| 9 | While finance director Henry Elstone said that the company grew by approximately 6.5% organically , the figures for the first time also include a full year 's contribution from ESD Distribution Ltd , which Farnell acquired in July 1991 for £61m . |
| 10 | The figures for the full year are still a bit squishy because of items like estimated costs but the unit is positive it was profitable in the fourth quarter . |
| 11 | Over the years I 've learnt to mistrust claims for better equipment based on small improvements in lab results , but the figures for the Aurora are in a different league . |
| 12 | The official census gives the figures for the number of Chinese Muslims as fifteen million but independent estimates put it at between 30 and 40 million . |
| 13 | In Table 3.1 the figures for the three extracts of Conrad , Lawrence , and James , are set side by side , so that there is some standard of comparison , some " relative norm " , however limited ( see 2.4 ) , for judging the significant properties of each text . |
| 14 | Table 5 is derived from two separate sources , so the figures for the years up to 1960 are not strictly comparable with those for 1971 and after . |
| 15 | Westergaard and Resler ( who produced the figures for the period up to 1960 in Table 5 ) suggest that the most significant redistribution was within the wealthiest groups , rather than between them and the less well-off . |
| 16 | The figures for the London Boroughs present several problems of comparison : the estimates for both education and socio-economic deprivation refer to the entire Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) , rather than to the individual Boroughs ; the estimates based on population density and for transport and recreation redistribution should be the larger of the two figures presented for comparative purposes , in order to include the provisions for the Metropolitan Police ; finally , where relevant , we have added average expenditure assessments for the Greater London Council ( GLC ) to each London Borough , in order to obtain total figures . |
| 17 | The figures for the first two years are easy as these decisions have already been taken , years four and five are merely projections on current assumptions while the hard decisions have at this stage to be taken for year three . |
| 18 | This time the Attorney General replied that the figures for the period before 1982 were ‘ not fully available or reasonably accessible ’ , which can mean only that no one in his office was prepared to make the count . |
| 19 | Not only is it impossible now to tell what the figures for the future will actually mean for the service , but even the informed observer or MP can not tell what has been happening . |
| 20 | The figures for the first quarter of 1990 showed an increase of 15 per cent on the corresponding period of 1989 , the largest rise in crime since records began in 1857 . |
| 21 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 22 | The figures for the proportion of vacancies that are acceptable , men aged 55 and over have very low reservation wages ( especially in the second period ) and appear to accept almost any job . |
| 23 | When he considers the figures for the past 10 years , does he have any plans for structural changes involving inward investment teams , especially in the United States ? |
| 24 | Should the figures for the number of eye tests show an adverse trend compared with those of the past , will my hon. Friend consider the possibility of reintroducing free eye testing for the over-60s ? |
| 25 | Will he now give us the figures for the whole period since 1979 , when the Government came to office ? |
| 26 | Other industries such as shipbuilding , which were previously heavily subsidised , have ceased to take subsidies , with the result that the figures for the northern region appear quite different . |
| 27 | I shall give the figures for the number of library books issued per hundred of the population across a sample of authorities . |
| 28 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 29 | The figures for the 1991 conference were not improved by the failure of one of our sponsors to honour their commitment — our sponsor was in fact The European newspaper . |
| 30 | The figures for the health service are no different . |