Example sentences of "figures [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE SOUTH African government is to launch an AIDS education campaign in schools in response to alarming new figures about the spread of the disease . |
| 2 | Well , we get the usual sort of things you would expect , about fact and figures about the University itself . |
| 3 | Since both our link missionary families are in Brazil , here are a few facts and figures about the country . |
| 4 | This is followed by some more detailed facts and figures about the teaching profession , and a description of some of the professionals involved in further and higher education . |
| 5 | The following year " Deaf Discrimination " was chosen as target for BDA Week , which commenced with the publication of a " public information report " giving facts and figures about the extent and character of such discrimination . |
| 6 | It is true that a comparison of the generally accepted life-expectancy figures between the West and the Third World countries , or a comparison between ourselves and our grandparents ' generation , would show that modern Western man has a great advantage in average expectation of life . |
| 7 | The judge went on : ‘ The fact that there is a difference in the figures between the settlement in the book action and the jury in the pamphlet action will not surprise anyone familiar with all the circumstances . |
| 8 | Firstly , they must decide how many titles each library should stock on each subject , how to modify these figures as the type of use changes , and how to keep the stock in each subject relatively fresh and interesting . |
| 9 | The Institute has continued to highlight the effects of this recession on the construction industry — to the point of the Prime Minister being confronted with the RIBA Workload figures during the election campaign . |
| 10 | Otherwise there is a danger of losing or miscasting figures during the conversion process . |
| 11 | Comparative figures for the West Lancs. and Cheshire District , for instance , were 39% ( under 5,000 population ) and 36% ( over 20,000 ) . |
| 12 | Revenue figures for the winter will be interesting . |
| 13 | Erm and that I think , the response therefore to your position on financial figures for the contingency fund is if you sort the government out we might be able to . |
| 14 | It is impossible to have even approximate figures for the diaspora . |
| 15 | Granz had paid five figures for the painting in the early 1960s . |
| 16 | Figures for the proportion of the total population in the labour force are quite revealing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Table 5.1. below gives some performance figures for the HWIM and RM1 lexical access components . |
| 19 | New audited circulation figures for the Telegraph show an increase of 3,118 copies daily , comparing 1992 to 1991 and won the Telegraph a major UK newspaper industry award . |
| 20 | I 'm not tying you to a specific month , but about January nineteen eighty five you would give the figures for the printing of the first brochure |
| 21 | According to casualty figures for the conflict in 1991 issued by Nagorny Karabakh 270 Armenians , 216 Azerbaijanis and 15 servicemen of various nationalities had died ; 400 Armenians , 180 Azerbaijanis and 34 servicemen had been wounded ; and 599 Armenians had been taken hostage , of whom 226 had not yet returned . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what has been the change in the United Kingdom 's energy-intensity ratio since 1983 ; and what are the corresponding figures for the rest of the EC and with Japan . |
| 24 | The total figures for the rest of the county are n't yet known . |
| 25 | The comparable figures for the rest of the UK are 77 per cent and three per cent respectively . |
| 26 | The comparable figures for the rest of the UK are 78 per cent and three per cent respectively . |
| 27 | Figures for the year ended 31 March 1989 , due to be published at the end of the year , show an overall 8 per cent drop in the use of the ‘ green form ’ initial advice and assistance scheme , as compared with an overall increase the previous year of 10 per cent . |
| 28 | Arthur Andersen Worldwide has posted another impressive set of fee income figures for the year to 31 August 1992 . |
| 29 | The Panel said that industrial group Williams Holdings plc and Ultramar , the oil company since acquired by Lasmo , had both boosted earnings per share figures for the year ended 31 December 1990 . |
| 30 | While figures for the year showed an increase in real growth of 2.9 per cent , business investment was down 3 per cent , consumer spending down 0.1 per cent and the growth elements appeared only to be in home purchases and government spending . |