Example sentences of "these figure [vb base] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He estimated that ‘ an extra year of elementary or secondary schooling really boosts future income less than 4% ; an extra year of college boosts it about 7% and a year of graduate school boosts it about 4% , There can be legitimate disagreement whether these figures indicate only a small effect of schooling on income . |
| 2 | These figures indicate that the number of potential dependants in the population is increasing and likely to go on increasing . |
| 3 | These figures relate to referrals during working hours only , and compare with overall referral rates varying between 19.9 and 102.7 per 100,000 in 42 social services departments studied by Barnes et al . |
| 4 | These figures relate to central funds . |
| 5 | These figures relate only to the standard range of items and do not include masterworkshop rugs . |
| 6 | These figures relate to 1778 when the knitters were seeking a parliamentary regulation of their wages to levels about a third higher , restoring earnings to the level of twenty years earlier before a long decline had set in . |
| 7 | Melissa Le Marchant of Friends of the Earth commented : " These figures reveal how deplorable government action on Third World debt has been . |
| 8 | These figures serve to indicate a relative order of magnitude . |
| 9 | Though these figures shock , they need to be put into perspective . |
| 10 | While these figures refer to crimes committed by juveniles , they do give a good indication of the extent of class differences in crime statistics generally , given the high proportion of offenders who are juveniles . |
| 11 | These figures refer to text without typographic or other ‘ mark-up ’ . |
| 12 | Furthermore , these figures refer to the period before the top rate of income tax was reduced from 60% to 40% , and the ‘ poll tax ’ was introduced . |
| 13 | These figures refer to the size of free waves in the open ocean . |
| 14 | It must be noted that these figures refer to the degrees obtained by all entrants in each category , and not just those graduating , as in Bourner and Hamed 's study . |
| 15 | Even though these figures increase quite sharply for old people over 75 , it is still a minority of that population . |
| 16 | All these figures reflect the percentage of chemistry graduates that are female — in 1989–90 34 per cent of the 2210 chemistry graduates were women . |
| 17 | According to CST marketing director Mike Briercliffe , these figures reflect the recent success of value added resellers — both in vertical legal and insurance markets as well as those delivering more general business applications . |
| 18 | It is not altogether clear to what extent these figures reflect high non-completion rates , particularly in the first year , or whether they reflect continuing problems which some groups of students experience throughout their careers in higher education . |
| 19 | Taken together , however , these figures mean no more and no less than services managing to expand rapidly enough to maintain their overall world share whereas manufacturing steadily dropped way behind in this race . |
| 20 | For the none technical , these figures mean that it is not a super quick modem , but has features that improve data transfer and have error correcting protocols . |
| 21 | Alan Wilson examines the core of the broadcasters ' unease Changing channels ‘ What these figures mean is that less than one third of the Scottish licence fees was spent north of the Border , while the comparable figure for England was over 90 per cent' |
| 22 | ‘ What these figures mean is that less than one third of the Scottish licence fees were spent here that year , while the comparable figure for England was over 90 per cent , ’ said one disgruntled producer . |
| 23 | These figures emphasise the importance of protecting these coastal habitats . |
| 24 | Prosafe chairman Mike Dewry said : ‘ These figures highlight the need for enforcement agencies to act together . ’ |
| 25 | These figures highlight the low level of statutory minimum redundancy payments for both men and women . |
| 26 | Sarah Abbott , also from Edinburgh Women 's Aid , added : ‘ These figures highlight not only the amount of women and children who come to us but also the amount who unfortunately we have to turn away because of lack of space , facilities and funding . ’ |
| 27 | But police believe these figures disguise actual use . |
| 28 | These figures make IBM a natural target for Japan 's electronics firms , which are relative newcomers to computers but have high aspirations of success . |
| 29 | These figures make Kaohsiung probably the third largest guitar factory in the world , after Sammick in Korea and Fuji-Gen Gakki in Japan . |
| 30 | These figures make our record of approximately two per decade , embarrassingly poor . |