Example sentences of "figures for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the percentage of middle class people using mechanical methods of birth control increased from 9 per cent to 40 per cent between 1910 and 1930 , the comparable figures for the working class were 1 per cent and 28 per cent . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | You then ask the second child to write down any figures for the second row and you immediately write the third row . |
| 4 | United States trade figures for the second quarter of 1971 showed a deficit for the first time . |
| 5 | Its failure was such that figures for the monetary variable to be controlled , £M3 , are no longer published . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Figures for the average price of a detached house in each region for 1988 are provided in Table 9.1 ( column 6 ) and indicate that houses in the South East are much more expensive than elsewhere in the country . |
| 8 | This is consistent both with Home Office figures for the annual number of notified drug addicts resident in Wirral during the 1980s ( rising from four in 1980 to 320 in 1985 ) , and with the experiences and estimates of local professionals concerned with heroin use . |
| 9 | The corresponding figures for the 1981 cohort were 12 and 27 ) . |
| 10 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 11 | Figures for the first half of the year from the Building Societies Association showed that only around 54,360 people were in arrears with their mortgages . |
| 12 | The interim p&l account , balance sheet and cash flow statement therefore do not include comparative figures for the first half of 1991 ; the full year 1991 figures are shown , however . |
| 13 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |
| 14 | In July 1991 the SSB released economic figures for the first half of 1991 [ see p. 38340 ] . |
| 15 | Figures for the first half of 1990 showed that the trade gap had grown by 62 per cent to $1,870 million . |
| 16 | Leeds-based CST Distribution , the Acer Group Altos arm of CST Group Ltd has reported booming sales figures for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 17 | UK , Leeds-based CST Distribution , the Acer Group Altos arm of CST Group Ltd has reported booming sales figures for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Evidence that the Chinese economy was entering a period of growth emerged on April 7 with the publication of economic figures for the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 20 | Figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed a 7 per cent increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) as compared with the same period in 1990 ; 42 per cent of this increase was accounted for by the manufacturing sector . |
| 21 | Official figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed industrial production declining by only 0.6 per cent compared with the same period of 1990 — a lesser decline than might have been expected in view of the Gulf crisis . |
| 22 | Provisional figures for the first part of 1990 suggested a lack of progress in combating inflation , which remained over twice the European average . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 25 | Monthly PC sales have topped six figures for the first time , with 100,165 computers worth £111.6 million shipped in the UK during November 1992 . |
| 26 | Table 3.2 shows figures for the estimated unemployment percentages in 1984–85 for selected countries . |
| 27 | It sees a pre-tax hit of $70m to $80m against figures for the current quarter to cover costs of inventory liquidation , leases , payroll and lay-off of 1,000 staff , fixed assets disposal , and operating costs . |
| 28 | As for Mr 's point that Not Mr b Steven 's point that the erm figures for the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire were done on a different basis , those figures with the exception of Sheffield , were erm figures that were put in by the local planning authorities , the Secretary of State accepted those figures , they were done on the nineteen eighty five based household projections , coupled with different assumptions about vacancy rates and demolitions etcetera , and the Secretary of State accepted those figures . |
| 29 | Erm but the the point I 'm making is that existing figures erm for the existing sorry the figures for the existing structure plan indicate that there 's been an overshoot on agreed figures . |
| 30 | Figures for the pre-census period are unreliable ; but , according to an informed assessment of 1835 , ‘ half the infants baptised in London in the period 1770–89 were dead before the age of five . ’ |