Example sentences of "figure for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 2 | The implication of any figure , indeed the County Council 's figure for the last five years of the structure plan , could be characterized as putting the brakes on so hard , that the passengers all fall off the train . |
| 3 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Jan. 30 reported that figures for the first nine months of 1991 showed Japan to be Vietnam 's second most important trading partner , after Singapore . |
| 4 | Figures for the first nine months of 1992 showed an 18 per cent fall in gross national product . |
| 5 | TENNIS WORLD 'S ABC figures for the first six months of the year will show an increase in sales of almost 30% in spite of the deep UK recession . |
| 6 | The overall figures for the first two years are given in table I. There have been a total of 16 positive test results , nine of which were confirmed on a subsequent venous sample , giving an incidence of 1:3802 male births . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Fuller information is being prepared by the Finance Council and this will be issued in May when figures for the first three months of 1993 have been prepared by our financial auditors . |
| 9 | The Central Statistical Office has beefed up output figures for the first three quarters of 1992 , as a result of revised figures showing farm production in the first three quarters averaged 5 per cent more than originally estimated . |
| 10 | For the next fifteen years he combined his duties as missioner with honourary service to the BDA as part-time Secretary/treasurer before becoming full-time General Secretary in 1966 and one of the Association 's most influential figures for the next fourteen years . |
| 11 | Why do the live birth figures for the last two quarters of 1985 and for the whole of 1985 appear as rounded thousands ? |
| 12 | The minute here on sales ‘ rjm presented a summary of the sales figures for the last financial year and the of the titles . |
| 13 | And I 'll get my accountant to chase your vendor 's elusive accountant and get some figures for the last few months . |