Example sentences of "figures for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its share of total industrial activity has varied over the period but the figures for the late 1960s are representative . |
| 2 | To answer this question we have constructed figures for the advanced capitalist countries ' rate of profit ( a weighted average of the best estimates available for the seven biggest capitalist countries ) . |
| 3 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Figures for the first nine months of 1992 showed an 18 per cent fall in gross national product . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The total was more than the combined figures for the previous two months . |
| 12 | He judged the size of the crowd at about 35,000 — small by standards elsewhere but an improvement over attendance figures for the past two years . |
| 13 | The complete figures for the past 10 years will be published in the Official Report . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | For the rest of the period , rainfall across the country was well below normal levels , with large areas of central and southern France receiving less than 60 per cent of normal rainfall , when compared to figures for the past 30 years . |
| 16 | I referred earlier to the excellence of the Home Office research and statistics department when I explained that we do not keep crime figures for the past 12 centuries . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In politics outside the magnate class one has the same picture : when one considers which boroughs were represented in fifteenth-century parliaments , one is struck by the contrasting figures from the North and the South : in Wiltshire there were sixteen boroughs and in Sussex twelve ( if one includes the three Cinque Ports which fell within the shire ) , whereas the figures for the three northern shires of Yorkshire , Northumberland and Lancashire were three , one and none respectively . |
| 19 | Why do the live birth figures for the last two quarters of 1985 and for the whole of 1985 appear as rounded thousands ? |
| 20 | The minute here on sales ‘ rjm presented a summary of the sales figures for the last financial year and the of the titles . |
| 21 | And I 'll get my accountant to chase your vendor 's elusive accountant and get some figures for the last few months . |
| 22 | Figures for the full nine months showed a £48.5m turnround to £6.1m profits . |
| 23 | Current figures for the top 100 suggest a six-fold increase in the inclusion of the balance sheet and a 10-fold increase in the inclusion of a cash flow/funds statement . |