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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a gross figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a total amount that has not been adjusted for deductions, such as taxes or expenses, often in financial contexts.
Example: "The company's gross figure for revenue this quarter was significantly higher than last year's."
Alternatives: "total amount" or "overall figure".
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It can argue all it likes that £350m is a "gross figure".
The continued use of a gross figure in contexts that imply it is a net figure is misleading and undermines trust in official statistics," he said.
The £190bn of commitment to lending is a gross figure, up from the £176bn lent in 2010, which allows banks to include loans repaid as well as new ones granted.
That £1.5tn is a gross figure and not one which will go directly or wholly into the Scottish economy; in fact much of that – assuming it is realised – will flow offshore in the form of profits and tax breaks.
Presumably this is a gross figure being used to create an impression of a crushing new record for Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Indian box-office statistics, including the previous benchmarks supposedly beaten, are usually marked up net).
Depositors have learned that the financial system is even wobblier than officials had declared.It turns out that the FSA had been reporting a net rather than a gross figure, by quietly subtracting problem loans backed by "sound" collateral or guarantees.
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And the Government Pension Investment Fund, one of the biggest holders of government bonds, has admitted that it has no new money with which to buy more debt.Furthermore, Mr Grice argues that one of the main sources of comfort for investors that the net debt-to-GDP ratio is a lot lower than the gross figure because of assets owned by the Japanese government may be an illusion.
Seven years on, Parma have a gross debt figure of 197.4m euros.
But that's just the gross figure for cash earnings.
The bank has not disclosed the gross figure.
The gross figure excludes "depreciation" - the deteriorating state of existing infrastructure.
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