The phrase "a figure equal to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in mathematical or comparative contexts to indicate that one quantity is the same as another.
Example: "The total cost of the project is a figure equal to $10,000."
Alternatives: "an amount equivalent to" or "a value matching".
Today the Development Bank of the Philippines classifies $9.59 billion as bad loans, a figure equal to triple the national budget.
Nevada, for example, has seen about 25,000 approved DACA applicants, a figure equal to 0.84percentt of the state's population — the same ratio as in Texas.
Individual locomotive units provided up to 5,000 horsepower, a figure equal to all the steam-engine power in the United States in 1800.
Corporations now sit atop a combined $1.6 trillion of cash, a figure equal to slightly more than 6 percent of their total assets.
It doesn't have branches, so it required a fairly lengthy call, after which I was quoted a figure equal to four times salary, or £120,000 in my case.
Clubs overspending the allowed limits, £8m, by more than £10m, a strong probability for some, will have to pay a fine of almost £7m plus a figure equal to their spending above £18m.
As the hapless international war on drugs has served mainly to encourage the narcotics trade by keeping prices high, today more than 300,000 families grow coca or poppies in the Guaviare and neighboring provinces--a figure equal to the number of Colombians propagating coffee.
By Beijing's estimate, total local government debt amounted to $2.2 trillion last year — a staggering figure, equal to one-third of the nation's gross domestic product.
Somehow, the Joker has huge logistical resources at his disposal, despite apparently being a lone figure — equal to those deployed by the army, the police or the billionaire Bruce Wayne.
Still, that unnerving figure — equal to more than a third of the yearly output of the United States economy — is mainly a sign of the urgency that government sees in tackling the financial crisis.
On the other hand, there may be a figure equal or even greater just around the corner from Columbia University -- but don't go looking for him.
