The phrase "a fair figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an amount of money or a numerical value that is considered reasonable or justifiable.
Example: "After negotiating, we finally agreed on a fair figure for the project costs."
Alternatives: "a reasonable amount" or "an equitable sum".
He said that $1 million was a fairer figure, and a settlement, reached last October, required the foundation to come up with that sum from Mr. Sutton, some of his business associates and Time Warner.
But the judge said there was no rationality for Mrs Justice Parker's lump sum figure of £577,778 and he thought a fairer figure would be £350,000 reducing it by £227,778.
It's harder to say no to a specified, thoughtful and fair figure than to an unknown and possibly "sky's the limit" request.
A £60,000 cap would be a significant rise on "the most appropriate and fair figure" of £35,000 recommended by the Dilnot Commission in July 2011.
Today the landowner Fred Johnson, 65, said he thought the valuation was a "fair and reasonable figure" but that he was "not coming to any quick decisions" about how he would spend his share of the money.
During orientation week, I went to the activities fair, figuring I should join a club of some kind to get to know people outside of my dorm.
The exclusion of cultures taken at contact tracing ought to give more fair figures when comparing data from the study period with the "resistance situation" before the project started or with data from other studies.
I'm already one sixth of the way through War and Peace; with luck and a fair wind, I figure I can beat the six-part TV adaptation by a week.
"A fair and youthful figure, princess, wife and mother, is the heir to all our traditions and glories," as Winston Churchill so poetically put it, "and to all our perplexities and dangers never greater in peacetime than now.
The cap was a key recommendation of the government-appointed Dilnot Commission report into care in England, which said it should be set at between £25,000 and £50,000, with £35,000 the fairest figure.
