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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a figure over" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a numerical value or statistic that exceeds a certain amount, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The report indicated a figure over 100,000 in sales last quarter."
Alternatives: "a number exceeding" or "a value above".
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A figure over 50 signals expansion.
If you are in credit most companies have a figure over which they will give you an automatic refund.
Chinese officials have tended in the past to accept that a figure over 0.4 should start ringing alarms.Curiously, just a few days before Mr Zhu gave the figure of 0.39, Xinhua, the official news agency, said the figure stood at 0.458, "greater than the international warning line".
But such a gross misrepresentation of such important events -- roughly seventy percent of the population is too young to have been aware of Watergate -- about a figure over whom there is still serious debate, in the name of entertainment and profits, to my mind, crosses the line of dramatic integrity and is dishonorable.
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Mesirow's name – her stage one anyway – was inspired by "a midnight vision of a figure hovering over water".
In Britain, an online petition has been set up, which at the time of this writing had gathered more than a million eight hundred and thirty-five thousignaturestures; any figure over a hundred thousand automatically triggers a debate in Parliament.
Under a large tent at a campsite in a park, activists came up with a logo: a crude drawing of a stick figure kicking over a bus turnstile.
This paper has shown that monitoring the reach and adoption of injury prevention interventions on a weekly basis throughout a season is more informative than just reporting a single figure over an entire season.
The Lancet has given a figure of over 600,000, and some others have put it at more than a million.
At the centre of all this activity is a figure who, over six decades, has maintained an enviable artistic autonomy.
Most China-watchers were expecting a figure well over 5%.Investors seem pleased that inflation was lower than feared.
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